Computer History

I think this deserves a medal. It took me so long to get this together.

                                             Computer timeline


1642 - Blaise Pascal (France) makes a numerical wheel calculator, an early mechanical adding machine.
1694 - Gottfried von Liebniz, Germany, makes a machine that can multiply numbers.
1820 - Charles Xavier de Colmar, France, makes an ‘arithometer’ that can add, subtract, multiply and divide.
1822 - Charles Babbage, England, devises his difference engine.
1829 - Wheatstone uses punched paper tape to store data
1834 - Babbage conceives the analytical Engine
1889 - Hollerith’s punch card machine used in the US census
1928 - IBM adopts 80-column punched card
1944 - Harvard’s Mark I, first digital computer
1952 - Univac computer accurately predicts the US election winner
1953 - First IBM electronic digital computer (IBM 701)
1956 - First hard disk drive (IBM). Term “artificial intelligence” devised
1958 - First chess game between computer and human
1960 - USA has 6’000 computers
1963 - ASCII (American standard code for information Interchange) introduced
1967 - IBM releases floppy disk
1970 - Douglas Engelbart patents first computer mouse
1971 - Intel builds the microprocessor “computer on a chip” Wang 1200, worlds first word processor
1972 - e-mail invented by Ray Tomlinson. First electronic video game, Pong
1975 - Microsoft founded by William H. Gates, later to become the worlds richest person.
1976 - First Apple computer Cray-1, first supercomputer
1979 - Compuserve launches first commercial bulletin board (BBN) service
1980 - USA has more than one million computers. First laptop computers
1981 - First Nintendo home video game. Commercial introduction of the computer mouse. Microsoft introduces software for IBM personal computers
1982 - Worldwide, 200 computers connected to the internet
1983 - USA has more than ten million computers
1984 - Apple Macintosh computers launched
1985 - Microsoft ships win 1.0
1986 - USA has more than 30 million computers
1988 - 4.7 million microcomputers, 120,000 minicomputers and 11,500 mainframe computers sold in USA
1989 - 100,000 hosts on the net
1990 - World Wide Web described by Tim Berners-Lee. First palmtop computer
1991 - First use of the phrase “surfing the net” by Jean Armour Polly
1993 - Mosaic, the first graphical internet browser
1994 - 135 million P.C’s worldwide. First adds on the ‘world wide web’ (ad for wired magazine claimed as first)
1995 - Amazon.com Internet bookseller founded. Microsoft’s internet explorer browser launched
1998 - Computer Hope created by Nathan E. The company offers free technical support, computer product information, free online forums, computer product buying tips, third-party computer company information, driver listing, computer dictionary, news, and a weekly computer newsletter.
1999 - 150 million people use internet worldwide (more than half in USA)
2000 - Dot-com crash
2001 - AOL subscribers reach 29 million worldwide
2004 - More than 2.8 million ipod digital music players sold


You can fill in the rest yourselves I'm tired 

See you put your life and sole in and you get nothing out!  I have it saved to a word doc so I'll attach it to my grave stone!

[Moderator]

That'll be a good sized stone...

That'll be a good sized stone...

I want a mountain. Or a small stone. Not sure yet, as long as it has my name on it.

So what happened in 2005?

You missed the Aztecs and the Egyptians and the Chinese and the....

There were way more before 1642.

You missed the Aztecs and the Egyptians and the Chinese and the....

There were way more before 1642.

Yes I forgot about the Egyptian duo core processors. silly me. 

Yes I forgot about the Egyptian duo core processors. silly me. 

Can you tell that I'm getting bored?

Can you tell that I'm getting bored?

Oh yes. It's that part of the day where there are no new 'good' topics coming in so we just talk random thoughts.

You have thoughts?

*bows down and worships*

You have thoughts?

*bows down and worships*

Come on guys what can I put for 2005-2009?

It doesn't matter, you missed the old stuff.  There actually were computers prior to 1 BC, the Egyptians had them.  They were actually hand held.

It doesn't matter, you missed the old stuff.  There actually were computers prior to 1 BC, the Egyptians had them.  They were actually hand held.

lol

lol

I actually didn't mean that to be funny.  The Chinese also had the Abacus.