The History of Computers
by José Gaxiola
1. The Antikythera mechanism is a calculator
1.1. It's 2000 years old
2. The Leibniz Step Reckoner - 1673
2.1. The first four fuction calculator!
3. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine
3.1. Designed in 1849. 8,000 parts, 5 tons, 11 feet long
4. Curta Calculators
4.1. Popular from the 1940's through to the 1970's. These had up 600 moving parts!
5. Electronic computers
5.1. These were made in the 1940's
6. The Colossus
6.1. This was the world's first programmable, electronic and digital computer!
6.1.1. It was used by British in the Second World War.
7. Computers with microprocessors and microchips in the 1970's.
8. The IBM Personal Computer
8.1. This led the way in the 1980's
8.1.1. It was very sucessful!
9. The Apple Macintosh
9.1. This was the competition of the IBM Personal Computer
10. Through the 1980's to 2000's computers became much more powerful.
10.1. These were still monitors, keyboards and mice!
11. In 2007 born the Smartphone
11.1. This combined a mobile phone with an Internet connected touch screen...
12. The first tablet computer
12.1. In 2010, It was innovative and hugely influential
13. The Turing Machine
13.1. 1939 -The first computer engineered to combat the encriptions made by Nazi's enigma machine....
14. The Eniac - 1946
14.1. Consists of vaccum tubes. This was big and calculated artilery firing tables.
15. The modem - 1950's
15.1. These were used by US Air Force, but the first commercial ones were made a decade later!
16. The first Hard Drive - 1957
16.1. The RAMAC
16.1.1. Held 5mB of data and was so big!
17. Fortran - 1957
17.1. The first ever programming language.
18. The mouse - 1964
19. RAM - 1968
20. The Arpanet - 1969
20.1. This was the first net!
21. Intel 4004 - 1971
21.1. This was the first commercially available microprocessor
22. The Floppy Disk - 1971
22.1. They became commerically available in this year for IBM.
23. c - The Programmin Language - 1972
23.1. Developed by Dennis Ritchie at the AT&T Bell Labs
24. Pong - 1972
24.1. It was a video game of the first generation of video game consoles
25. The ethernet cable - 1973
25.1. Developed at XEROX PARC. Ethernet data transfer rates have been increased from the original 2.94 mb/s
26. The Altair 8800 - 1975
26.1. The personal computar based on the intel 8008 cpu, ran on the Altair basic with 200 khz to 800 khz.
27. C++ - 1979
27.1. Based on C, this have classes and a tiny bit of syntax change
28. MSDOS - 1980
28.1. An operating systeam for a new PC!
29. Pac-Man - 1980
29.1. An addictive video game!
30. Commadore 64 - 1982
30.1. The Highest selling computer of all time! 64 kilobytes of ram.
31. Mac OS - 1984
31.1. This Operative system brought the graphicla interface!
32. Windows 1.0 - 1985
32.1. It could multitask and had more graphical support!
33. HTML - 1990
33.1. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.
34. PhotoShop - 1990
34.1. The first photoshop had no layers but had filters, brushes and file types.
35. The WWW - 1991
35.1. The World Wide Web or Web, is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
36. Intel Pentium - 1993
36.1. It's the sucesor of the intel 486. It started from being the top of the line processor a the time.
37. The Playstation1 - 1994
37.1. The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment
38. Windows 95 - 1995
38.1. It is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems.
