This document provides a timeline of important events and innovations in the history of computers from the 1600s to the early 2000s. It outlines early mechanical calculators and looms, the development of programmable computers in the 1940s-50s, the creation of programming languages like FORTRAN in the 1950s, the invention of the computer mouse in the 1960s, the establishment of major tech companies like Intel, Microsoft, Apple in the 1970s-80s, and the rise of the internet and web browsers in the 1990s-2000s.
This document provides a timeline of important events and innovations in the history of computers from the 1600s to the early 2000s. It outlines early mechanical calculators and looms, the development of programmable computers in the 1940s-50s, the creation of programming languages like FORTRAN in the 1950s, the invention of the computer mouse in the 1960s, the establishment of major tech companies like Intel, Microsoft, Apple in the 1970s-80s, and the rise of the internet and web browsers in the 1990s-2000s.
This document provides a timeline of important events and innovations in the history of computers from the 1600s to the early 2000s. It outlines early mechanical calculators and looms, the development of programmable computers in the 1940s-50s, the creation of programming languages like FORTRAN in the 1950s, the invention of the computer mouse in the 1960s, the establishment of major tech companies like Intel, Microsoft, Apple in the 1970s-80s, and the rise of the internet and web browsers in the 1990s-2000s.
BRAIN DRAIN Blaise Pascal Pascaline Gottfried Leibnitz Calculator Joseph Jacquard Mechanical Loom Charles Babbage Modern Computer Herman Hollerith Punch Machin ENIAC 1946 UNIVAC 1951 IBM 650 1953 FORTRAN 1954 IBM 305 1957 1958 – Second generation of computers 1962 – first computer game 1964 – first mouse 1968 – demonstrated in public 1970 – granted the copyright 1973 – ball in basic mouse 1986 – Intel Corp. 1969- ARPANET 1970 - CHIP 1971 – 23FD 1973 – first Hard Disk Drive 1975 – Microsoft Corporation 1976 – Apple Computer Company 1977 – Apple II 1985 – first multimedia computer 1990 – first birth of World Wide Web 1993 – first pentium chip 1994 - Netscape 1995 - Yahoo 1997 – first DVD 1998 – Dell and Amazon 2001- Ipod TIMELINE