3. 1937 Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry design and build the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry-Computer) The foundation for advancements in electronic digital computers 8/3/2011 3 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
4. 1943 World War II Alan Turing designs Colossus Created for military to break German Codes Existence is kept secret until the 1970’s 8/3/2011 4 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
5. 1945 John von Neumann built an electronic computer Institute for Advanced Served as the prototype for subsequent stored program computers 8/3/2011 5 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
6. 1946 Dr. John W. Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert, Jr. First large-scale electronic digital computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) 30 tons 18,000 vacuum tubes 30 x 50 foot space 8/3/2011 6 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
7. 1947 William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain Transfer resistance device, the Transistor Much more reliable than Vacuum Tubes 8/3/2011 7 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
8. 1951 UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) The first commercially available electronic digital computer Remington Rand 8/3/2011 8 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
9. 1953 IBM Model 650 First widely use computer Originally planning to produce 50 machines only Because of the success IBM manufactures more than 1,000 8/3/2011 9 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
10. 1957 Fortran (FORmulaTRANSlation) Programming Language John Backus IBM 305 RAMAC system The first to use magnetic disk for external storage 8/3/2011 10 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
11. 1959 IBM introduces two smaller, dusk sized computers IBM 1401 for business IBM 1620 for scientist 8/3/2011 11 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
12. 1960 COBOL A high-level business application language Dr. Grace Hopper 8/3/2011 12 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
13. 1964 The number of computers has grown to 18,000 Third generation computers, with their controlling circuitry stored on chips, are introduced IBM introduces the term word processing MT/ST (Magnetic Tape /Selectric Typewriter) The first reusable storage medium that allowed typed material to be edited 8/3/2011 13 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
14. 1965 BASIC programming language Dr. John Kemeny Widely used on personal computers DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Introduces the first minicomputer, PDP-8 8/3/2011 14 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
15. 1968 Alan Shugart demonstrates at IBM the first regular use of an 8-inch floppy (magnetic storage)disk 8/3/2011 15 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
16. 1969 IBM announces that some of its software will be priced separately from the computer hardware ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) Predecessor of the Internet 8/3/2011 16 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
17. 1970 Fourth-Generation computers built with chips that uses LSI (large-scale integration) The chips used in 1965 contained as many as 1,000 circuits, the LSI chip contains as many as 15,000 8/3/2011 17 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
18. 1971 Dr. Ted Hoff of Intel Corporation Intel 4004 Microprocessor or microprogrammable computer chip 8/3/2011 18 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
19. 1975 MITS, Inc. advertises one of the first microcomputers Altair, named for the destination in an episode of Star Trek Initially it has no keyboard, no monitor, no permanent memory, and no software 8/3/2011 19 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
20. 1975 Ethernet, the first LAN is developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) Robert Metcalf LAN (Local Area Network) Allows computers to communicate and share software, data, and peripherals 8/3/2011 20 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
21. 1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak First Apple computer Followed by the succeeding versions 8/3/2011 21 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
22. 1977 Mattel Auto Race was the first in the line of many Mattel Electronics games, and is credited with being the first handheld game that was entirely digital _____ 54 _____ I I i I I I I I i I ! I I I I i I I _____ 8/3/2011 22 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
23. 1979 VisiCalc (Visible Calculator) A spreadsheet program Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin Originally run on Apple II computers CompuServe and the Source The first public online information services 8/3/2011 23 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
24. 1979 It was developed by BjarneStroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language and originally named C with Classes 8/3/2011 24 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
26. 1980 IBM offers Microsoft Corp. co-founder, Bill Gates to develop the OS for their next IBM personal computer The development of MS-DOS Microsoft achieves tremendous growth and success Alan Shugart Winchester hard drive Revolutionizing storage for personal computers 8/3/2011 26 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
27. 1981 The first computer virus, Elk Cloner is spread via Apple II floppy disks 8/3/2011 27 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
28. 1981 IBM PC is introduced, signaling IBM’s entrance into the personal computer marketplace 8/3/2011 28 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
29. 1982 3,275,000 million computers are sold, almost 3,000,000 more than in 1981 Compaq, Inc. is founded to develop and market IBM-compatible PCs Hayes introduces the 300 bps smart modem. The modem is an immediate success 8/3/2011 29 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
30. 1982 The HX-20, the first notebook-sized portable computer, is introduced by Epson. 8/3/2011 30 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
31. 1983 TIME magazines names the computer “Machine of the Year” for 1982, acknowledging the impact of computers on society 8/3/2011 31 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
32. 1983 Lotus Development Corp. is founded. Lotus 1-2-3 which combines spreadsheet, graphics, and database programs becomes the best selling program for IBM PCs 8/3/2011 32 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
33. 1984 Apple introduces Macintosh computer, which incorporates a unique, easy to learn, GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) 8/3/2011 33 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
38. 1991 World Wide Web Consortium Releases standards that describe a framework for linking documents on different computers 8/3/2011 38 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
39. 1992 Windows 3.1 In two months 3,000,000 copies of this are sold 8/3/2011 39 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
40. 1993 Intel Pentium Successor to the Intel 486 processor Contains 3.1 million transistors Microsoft Office 3 professional The first version of Microsoft office 8/3/2011 40 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
41. 1994 Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen Netscape Navigator 1.0 A browser for the World Wide Web 8/3/2011 41 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
42. 1994 LinusTorvalds Linux kernel UNIX-like OS Free across the Internet for further modification by other programmers 8/3/2011 42 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
43. 1995 JAVA by Sun Microsystems Object-oriented programming language Java becomes one of the hotter Internet technologies MS Windows 95 50,000 test the software before it is released 8/3/2011 43 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
44. 1995 ebay Inc. an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website 8/3/2011 44 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
45. 1996 Microsoft Windows NT OS for client-server networks 8/3/2011 45 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
46. 1996 50 million PCs are sold worldwide 2/3 employees have access to a PC and 1/3 homes has a PC 8/3/2011 46 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
47. 1996 US Robotics introduces Palm Pilot Become popular among other PDAs because of it’s user-friendliness and low price 8/3/2011 47 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
48. 1997 Apple and Microsoft sign a joint technology development agreement Microsoft buys $150,000,000 of Apple stock Birth of DVD Digital Versatile Disc The next generation optical disc storage technology Intel Pentium II processor Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 8/3/2011 48 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
49. 1998 More than 10,000,000people take up telecommuting 8/3/2011 49 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
50. 1998 Apple computer introduces iMac iMac abandons floppy disk drive 8/3/2011 50 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
51. 1998 E-commerce, the marketing of goods and services over the Internet booms. Dell, E*TRADE, and Amazon.com spur online shopping 8/3/2011 51 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
52. 1998 Microsoft ships Windows 98 Improved Internet access, better system performance, and support for a new generation of hardware and software 8/3/2011 52 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
53. 1998 Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to Maya, is 3D computer graphics software that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation 8/3/2011 53 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
54. 1999 Microsoft Office 2000 Open source code software such as the Linux OS and the Apache Web server created by unpaid volunteers, begin to gain acceptance 8/3/2011 54 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
55. 1999 Y2K Bug Other computers cannot distinguish whether 01/01/00 refers to 1900 or 2000, and thus may operate using a wrong date 8/3/2011 55 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
56. The Leveling UP… Convenience/Power/Opportunity 8/3/2011 56 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
57. 2000 Shawn Fanning and his company Napster Software that allows computer user to swap music files Recording industry of America sues Napster for copyright infringement and win E-commerce achieves mainstream acceptance Internet advertising increases 8/3/2011 57 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
58. 2000 Microsoft ships Windows 2000 and Windows ME According to US Dept. of Commerce, Internet traffic is doubling every 100 days 8/3/2011 58 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
59. 2000 Telemedicine uses satellite technology and video conferencing to broadcast consultations and to perform distant surgeries. Robots are use for complex and precise task 8/3/2011 59 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
60. 2000 ASIMO, a humanoid robot created by Honda. Standing at 130 centimeters (4 feet 3 inches) and weighing 54 kilograms (119 pounds) 8/3/2011 60 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
61. 2001 MS Office XP the next version of productivity software MS Windows XP for the desktop and servers 8/3/2011 61 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
62. 2001 Intel Pentium 4 with clock speeds starting 1.4 GHz 42 million transistors Predecessor of Pentium III E-books becomes a hobby , which are digital texts read on compact computer screens 8/3/2011 62 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
63. 2002 Improved Intel Pentium 4 operating at speeds of 3.06 GHz DVD writers begin to replace CD writers 8/3/2011 63 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
64. 2002 Tablet PC reintroduced as the next-generation mobile PC 8/3/2011 64 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
65. 2003 Wireless computers become commonplace Latest OS supports both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth standards Microsoft Office 2003 released 8/3/2011 65 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
66. 2004 RealNetworks, Microsoft, Sony, and Wal-Mart stake out turf in the online music store business started by Apple Computer Apple’s iTunes Music Store sold nearly 20 million songs for 99 cents each 8/3/2011 66 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
67. 2004 Flat Panel LCD monitors overtake bulky CRT monitors USB flash drive become a cost effective way to transport data 8/3/2011 67 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
68. 2004 Apple computer introduces the sleek iMac G5 Computer’s display device contains the system unit 8/3/2011 68 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
69. 2005 10 percent of the web users has been moved from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox Xbox 360 releases by Microsoft 8/3/2011 69 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
70. 2005 Blogging and Podcasting become mainstream methods for distributing information via the web Smart phone overtakes PDAs 8/3/2011 70 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
71. 2005 Microsoft introduces Visual Studio 2005, this includes Visual basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++ and SQL Server Apple iPod the Video-Pod 8/3/2011 71 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
72. 2005 Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc 8/3/2011 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS 72
73. 2006 Sony launches Play Station 3 Sony Play Station 2 won 90 million from the previous sales over 24 million from Xbox and 21 million from GameCube consoles 8/3/2011 73 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
74. 2006 MS Windows Vista with new version of Internet Explorer 7 Improve security, deployment, manageability, and performance 8/3/2011 74 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
75. 2006 Apple begins selling Macintosh computers with Intel microprocessors Intel Pentium D 8/3/2011 75 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
76. 2006 IBM produces the fastest supercomputer called Blue Gene/L It can perform 28 trillion calculations in the time it takes you to blink your eye, or about one-tenth of a second 8/3/2011 76 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
77. 2006 Blu-ray Disc (official abbreviation BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. Blu-ray Disc Association 8/3/2011 77 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
78. 2007 The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, Handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile platform designed and marketed by Apple Inc. 8/3/2011 78 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
79. 2009 Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free antivirus software product created by Microsoft that provides protection against different types of malware 8/3/2011 79 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
80. 2010 The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. 8/3/2011 80 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
81. 2011 Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 750 million active users. 8/3/2011 81 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
82. 2011 Microsoft Corporation agreed to acquire Skype Communications for US$8.5 billion. The company is to be incorporated as a division of Microsoft 8/3/2011 82 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
83. 2011 Friendster shifted from social networking site to a social entertainment site which focus on gaming and music. The accounts are unchanged and still existing 8/3/2011 83 Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS
