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The birth of computers "life Jim but not as we know it!"
500 BC Babylonians develop the first known Abacus. Egyptians and Romans invent clocks and numbers 1st Century BC The Antikythera mechanism 200 AD Binary numbers to classify musical meters. 1500 Leonardo Da Vinci 1614 John Napier and Logarithms 1623 Calculators invented 1644 The Pascaline 1679 Leibnitz Calculator 1801 The first punch card. 1830 Babbage's Difference Engine. 1834 The Analytical Engine 1834 Augusta Lovelace the first programmer 1837 The telegraph and paper storage 1844 Morse telegraph 1855 George Schuetz 1854 George Boole Investigates the laws of thought. 1856 First Transatlantic cable. 1868 The first QWERTY keyboard used. 1869 Jeavons logical machine the "logic piano" 1873 The first Electric motor. 1874 The first typewriter. 1876 Graham Bell and the telephone 1881 A smaller logic machine perfected. 1883 Edison invents the light bulb 1888 Friedrich Reiniitzer discovers liquid crystal. 1892 Burroughs calculating machines 1895 Marconi first transmission
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The second wave "Climb every mountain!" 1902 The first tele-printers 1906 The vacuum Tube 1918 Enigma coding for Germany. 1920 John Logie Baird in England and Clarence Hansell in the US patent the idea of using ARRAYS of hollow pipes or transparent rods to transmit images - basic fibre optics. 1926 Transistors Pt1 1931 Electric Logic developed 1937 Atanasoff's first electric computer and the start of ABC computers. 1937 The first Binary Digital computer, Konrad Zuse's Z1 1937 Alan Turing Software Theory. 1940 Claude Shannon, Boolean Logic. 1940 George Stibitz connects two computers via a telephone. This generated ideas for the first Modem. 1941 Tom Flowers 1943 Colossus de-coding German secret messages. 1945 ENIAC goes into operation. 1946 Plankalkül (first programming language) 1948 Cybernetics developed at MIT. 1948 Transistor pt2 1949 EDSAC computer uses magnetic tape. 1949 Joseph Lyons invent LEO 1950 First bipolar junction transistor 1950 The first Digital Modem. 1951 LEO is operational 1956 The 30 RAMAC is launched. 1959 Integrated Circuit provided breakthrough.
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The
sixties and seventies "you don't know what you got, 'till its gone"
1960 Theodore H Nelson and Hypertext. 1960 Open source software 1961 The first electronic spreadsheet 1962 The first commercial 300Bd modem 1963 The first mouse is used. 1964 Basic the programmers language 1965 Moore's law about microchip capacity.. 1969 Arpanet starts the Internet . 1971 The first Micro processor, The Intel 4004. 1971 Wireless LAN operational 1971 The first E-Mail is sent. 1972 Pong games consoles introduced. 1972 Xerox begins development of a GUI (Graphics User Interface) based system. 1972 Bell Laboratories develops the popular C programming language. 1972 Ethernet developed. 1973 The Home Brew club is formed. 1973 Gary Kildall invents CP/M. 1974 The first commercial Arpenet 1975 MITS Altair 1975 Imsai 8080 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen write the first BASIC implementation for the MITS ALTAIR. 1975 Microsoft founded by Gates and Allen. 1976 Apple Computers launch Apple 1. 1976 5.35 inch floppy disk drives. 1977 Xerox introduces the 9700 laser. 1977 Computerland launched 1977 Apple II launched 1977 Z80-A launched
The History of Spreadsheets 1977 Commodore Pet launched 1977 MITS Altair sold 1977 ADM-3 Terminal 1978 VisiCalc starts the spreadsheet boom 1978 the first spam message 1979 Ashton Tate released Dbase. 1979 Apple Computer releases DOS 3.2.
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The eighties "you say you want a revolution!" 1980 The first 3.5 inch floppy drive. 1980 SuperCalc, the spreadsheet for CPM. 1980 Sinclair Sinclair invented the ZX80. 1980 Apple III launched. 1981 IBM PC launched. 1981 Development begins on MS-DOS. 1981 The Xerox 810 Star, the first WIMP. 1981 ctrl+alt+del is born1982 Commodore 64 home computer. 1982 Internet Traffic Protocol TCP/IP. 1982 Hercules Graphics 1982 Lotus 1-2-3. 1983 Apple Lisa. 1983 Arpanet switches to TCP/IP.. 1983 The first LCD computer display. 1984 9600 modem 1984 Post Script printing by Adobe. 1984 Voyetra released Sequencer Plus.. 1984 Psion launches 1st personal organiser. 1984 HP pioneers inkjet technology. 1984 IBM 286 AT computer with PS/2 1984 Amstrad's first home computer PCW 1984 Apple Mac launched 1984 Microsoft Excel 1985 Windows 1 released. 1985 The first Virus appears. 1985 JC-1401P3A monitor introduces the CRT. 1985 Aldus Pagemaker is the first widely used desktop publishing program. 1985 CD-ROM invented by Phillips. 1985 The Tandy TRS-80 introduced 1986 Amiga launch the 1000 computer 1986 SCSI interface standard adopted. The Atari ST1986 Amstrad launch the PC1512. 1986 SQL (Standard Query Language) US Robotics HST Modem1986 JPEG 1987 Windows 2 1987 Adlib's sound card released. 1987 VGA brings 256 colours at 640x480 1987 Apple develops True Type font. 1987 Amiga 2000 1988 Internet Worm 1989 Tim Berners-Lee & the world wide web. 1989 internet porn. Was it the start of E-Commerce? 1989 Kurt Arkley started work on graphics interface Open GL. 1989 Microsoft Word for Windows 1. 1989 Lotus begins work on Notes 1989 Wireless communications
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The nineties "aint no stopping us now!" 1990 WordPerfect 5.1 launched. 1990 IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) 1990 Adobe launches Photoshop. 1990 Windows 3, a workable GUI. 1991 V32 Bis Modems 1991 Linux is born 1991 Sound Blaster Pro "ups" the audio stakes. 1991 SonicWall personal Firewall technology. 1991 MPEG makes JPEGS move. 1991 Adobe PDF. 1991 IBM OS/2 1991 Windows NT a proper GUI multi-tasker. 1991 Microsoft Visual Basic makes its debut. 1991 The first version of HTML. 1992 Wolfenstein takes gamers by storm. 1992 Palm starts improving hand held computers. 1992 VESA Bus 1993 INTEL Pentium released. 1993 The I386 processor and I387 maths co-processor launched. 1993 Mosaic builds its first graphical Internet browser.1993 Windows NT 3.1 launched 1993 PCI Local Bus 1994 SMS brings text to the. 1994 Mosaic releases NETSCAPE. 1994 NetWare Directory Services. 1994 Galaxy is the Internet's first searchable directory. 1995 Microsoft plug and play into Win95. 1995 Citrix stakes out the ASP model. 1995 Sun launches JAVA. 1995 E-Commerce and Amazon. 1995 Microsoft DirectX. 1995 Exchange Server 3.51 released. 1996 Macromedia introduces Flash. 1996 Office for windows 95 1996 USB (Universal Serial Bus). i 1996 NT 4.0 released 1996 Windows CE V1.0 launched 1996 DVD (Digital Video Disk). 1997 Voodoo launches 3D graphics. 1997 IEEE standard 1998 Recordable and re-writable CD 's. 1999 Gigabit Ethernet. 1999 AMD puts Athlon on Motherboards. 1999 Nvidia launches GeForce. 1999 MP3 music files .1999 Peer to Peer (P2P) from NAPSTER. 2000 Compaq iPAQ. 2000 Windows 2000 2000 Windows ME 2000 Bill Gates relinquishes CEO 2000 Microsoft launches the XBox 2000 The millennium BUG
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The future "Helter skelter" 2001 Convergence of Phones and PDA's. 2001 Computer Generated Graphics create human forms indistinguishable from reality. 2001 Windows XP 2001 USB2 2002 XP SR1 2002 Lindows 2002 Lindows signs with Microtel 2003 Microsoft Office 2003 2003 Blaster worm 2003 Multithreading Intel Canterwood motherboard Intel Prescott WI-FI communications2004 Longhorn |