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Z1-Computer
The Z1 computer was designed and created by Konrad Zuse in 1936. The Z1 built using a binary electronically driven mechanical calculator. It was very unreliable in operating, but was the world's first freely programmable computer that used Bolean logic and binary floating numbers. -
Invention of the First Computer
In 1946, the ENIAC was created by John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert. ENIAC stands for Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator. -
Invention of the First Video Game
The first video game was known as the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device. The video game was inspired by a missle simulator used in World War II -
Creation of Micro-Programming
In 1951, Maurice Wilkes, Stanley Gill and David Weaver discovered micro-programming. The concept of micro-programming allowed the control of the CPU with a high speed program set in ROM. -
UNIVAC I
The UNIVAC I was the world's first commercial built by the same creators of the ENIAC. The main purpose of the UNIVAC I was to help business deal with large quantities of numbers with simple arithmatic. -
The First Weather Satellite
In 1960, the first ever American weather satellite was lunched into space out of Florida. The TIROS-1 was used to capture images of weather patterns on earth -
ARPANET
ARPANET, also known as an Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was the world's first internet that was ever invented. ARPANET was created in 1969 and connected many universities to data centers. -
ALOHAnet
ALOHAnet, created by a professor at the University of Hawaii, was the world's first wireless computer communications network created. ALOHAnet was created using low-cost-ham-like radios and didn't require any cables of any sort. -
Altair 8800
The Altair 8800 was the world's first micro computer that was intended to be sold to the consumers and not just large businesses. It was created by MITS, (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), who had originally manufactured only calculators. -
Apple I
The Apple I was created by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ron Wayne in 1976. It was built in Steve Jobs' parents' basement and sold for $666.66. -
IBM PC (Personal Computer)
The IBM PC was a complete computer kit standard with a computer monitor, keyboard, storage system, and programmed using either BASIC or APL. It was primarily designed for professional use and not so much for the every day consumer or computer hobby-ist. The IBM PC was orginally priced at $20,000. -
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi was created by NCR Corporation and AT&T and allows for a user to transfer information and connect between/with computer devices using a high- speed internet access by using radio waves. Wi-Fi is also known as WLAN (Wireless local area network) -
Xbox & Xbox Live
The Xbox was Microsoft's touch into the video game console field. Along with the creation of the Xbox came Xbox Live. This allowed users (gamers) to connect with other users through a wired connection like LAN. -
Twitter
What is "Twitter" ?. Twitter is an online social networking community that allows users to post text-based messages containing no more than 140 characters. It gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, with atleast 340 million tweets daily and dealing with more than 1.6 billion search queries per day. -
IBM Roadrunner
The IBM Roadrunner is the world's fastest super-computer to this day. It is ranked number 4 for most effiecient computer system and it hit a peak performance of 1.456 petaflops. It also has a operational rate of 444.94 megaflops per one watt of power used.
