I think this deserves a medal. It took me so long to get this together.
Computer timeline1642 - 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
