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Flashcards by christina Littlewood, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| January 1801 | Frenchman, Joseph-Marie Jacquard builds a loom that weaves by reading punched holes stored on small sheets of hardwood. |
| January 1820 | Charles Babbage begins his lifelong quest for a programmable machine. |
| January 1822 | Charles Babbage builds the Difference Engine |
| January 1842 | Ada Lovelace (the first programmer), uses the difference engine to mechanically translate a short piece of written work. |
| January 1854 | George Boole (father of computer science), writes an investigation of the laws of thought. |
| April 1890 | Herman Hollerith, of MIT, develops an electric system to read punch cards. |
| January 1892 | William Burroughs introduces a commercially successful printing calculator. |
| February 1918 | The Enigma Machine is invented by a German engineer, called Arthur Scherbius, at the end of World War 1. |
| July 1927 | Vannevar Bush of MIT builds the differential analyser to solve differential equations |
| July 1939 | Hewlett Packard is founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett. |
| February 1941 | Konrad Zuse builds a mechanical calculator to handle maths within engineering. |
| February 1944 | The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called the Mark 1, was introduced at Harvard University. |
| January 1945 | A moth was noticed in the Mark 1, during repairs, which was causing problems. From this day on, fixing a computer was known as debugging. |
| June 1948 | The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was developed as the world’s first stored program computer. |
| January 1950 | The ERA 1101 is developed, the first commercially produced computer. |
| April 1952 | The IBM 701 was announced to the public on April 29, 1952, and was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer. |
| April 1953 | Vacuum tube memory is surpassed by core memory which is smaller and can store more data. |
| April 1957 | A new computer language is developed called FORTRAN (Formula Translator). This allows for a program to repeat a task through the use of loops. |
| April 1964 | IBM introduces the System/360 to the business world. |
| March 1968 | The eight inch floppy disk started to become a standard for portable storage. |
| September 1969 | Victor Scheinman develops the Stanford Robotic Arm. |
| October 1969 | The Arpanet was created and allowed for the computers at Stanford and UCLA to be connected for the first time. |
| May 1970 | An Arpanet network was created between Harvard, MIT and BBN. |
| July 1971 | Email was developed by Ray Tomlinson. He decided to use the @ symbol to separate the username from the computer name. |
| January 1975 | The first email client was developed by John Vittal, a programmer at the University of South California. |
| July 1975 | Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. |
| September 1975 | The first computer is marketed in kit form. Bill Gates writes a BASIC compiler for this computer. |
| September 1975 | The first laptop, called the SCAMP (Small Computer APL Machine Portable), is developed by IBM. |
| September 1975 | Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak found Apple Computers. |
| November 1977 | The first PC modem is developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heratherington. |
| August 1978 | The first unsolicited email (SPAM), is sent out to over 600 Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. |
| November 1980 | The first Hard Disk Drive was created and could hold up to 5 megabytes of data. |
| August 1981 | Bill Gates releases MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System). |
| November 1981 | The BBC Microcomputer System is developed. |
| January 1984 | The Domain Name System (DNS), was created. Without this, accessing the internet would be more difficult. |
| April 1984 | Apple computers launched the Apple Macintosh computer. |
| November 1987 | The internet has nearly 30,000 hosts due to the adoption of the TCP/IP standard. |
| March 1988 | The first major computer virus was released. Known as the Morris Worm, it caused large interruptions for many internet users. |
| March 1989 | The proposal for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee. |
| March 1990 | Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). |
| May 1990 | Windows 3.0 is launched. |
| August 1990 | The first dial-up internet provider was created and named The World. |
| April 1991 | The first web page was created. |
| May 1991 | The first web cam was deployed at Cambridge University. Its sole purpose was to monitor the coffee machine. |
| May 1994 | Yahoo is founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo. |
| July 1994 | Amazon.com was started by Jeff Bezos. It started off as an online shop for books. |
| July 1995 | SSL (Secure Socket Layer), was developed by Netscape. This made it safer to shop online using a credit card. |
| September 1995 | Echo Bay made its first sale using the internet. This company later became know as eBay. |
| July 1996 | Hotmail is developed and launched for public access. |
| July 1998 | Windows 98 is launched despite being blocked by some US Attorneys for interconnecting with other programs. |
| September 1998 | Google Search Engine was launched. |
| May 1999 | The SETI@home project was launched. This used over 3 million personal computers worldwide, when idle, to act together as a supercomputer. |
| January 2001 | Wikipedia is launched. This paved the way for collective web content generation. |
| October 2001 | Microsoft release Windows XP to the public. |
| March 2002 | CD burners start getting run out by DVD burners as file size continues to grow. DVD's can hold up to eight times as much as a CD. |
| April 2003 | Apple opens their first iTunes store. |
| February 2004 | Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook.com. |
| April 2004 | Google launches Gmail, a web browser based email client. |
| May 2004 | The USB flash drive become the device of choice for moving media between computers. |
| February 2005 | YouTube is launched allowing for sharing and hosting of videos. |
| July 2006 | Intel Release the second generation of their dual core processors, the Core 2 Duo. |
| August 2006 | Twttr is released and would later be known as Twitter. |
| January 2007 | Microsoft release Windows Vista to the public. |
| November 2007 | The development of the iPhone caused a renewed interest in mobile internet access and application development. |
| February 2008 | The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is won by Sony and their Blu-ray format. |
| September 2008 | Solid State Drives start making an appearance in more notebook computers as the main storage over regular Hard Disk Drives. |
| September 2008 | Google release their mobile operating system called Android. |
| October 2009 | Microsoft release Windows 7 less than three years after its predecessor, Windows Vista. |
| March 2010 | Apple introduces the first iPad to the market. |
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