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Hewlett-Packard is Founded.
David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney Pictures ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie “Fantasia.” -
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Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer.
It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum, the earliest magnetic storage devices. -
MIT researchers built the TX-0, the first general-purpose, programmable computer built with transistors.
Constructed at MIT´s Lincoln Laboratory, the TX-0 moved to the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, where it hosted some early imaginative tests of programming, including a Western movie shown on TV, 3-D tic-tac-toe, and a maze in which mouse found martinis and became increasingly inebriated. -
Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer.
The speed, small size, and reasonable cost enabled the PDP-8 to go into thousands of manufacturing plants, small businesses, and scientific laboratories. -
Apple introduced its Lisa.
The first personal computer with a graphical user interface, its development was central in the move to such systems for personal computers. -
Birth of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language. HTML, as it is commonly known, allowed the Internet to expand into the World Wide Web, using specifications he developed such as URL and HTTP. -
Netscape Communications Corporation is founded.
Netscape was originally founded as Mosaic Communications Corporation in April of 1994 by Marc Andreessen, Jim Clark and others. Its name was soon changed to Netscape and it delivered its first browser in October of 1994.
