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First mechanical computer
Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer -
Photophone
Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone -
Radio Signals
Invented by Guglielmo Marconi -
Television Electronic
Invented by Philo Famsworth -
Universal Formal Language
Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of universal formal language -
Theoretical Computing Machine
Alan Turing develops this concept -
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is developed to standardise data exchange among computers. -
First Computer Mouse
Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out at the end) -
Hypertext
Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext" -
E-mail
Invented by Ray Tomlinson -
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display was invented by James Fergason -
Mini Computer
The mini computer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers -
Routing Computers
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers to negotiate between the various national networks -
Microsoft
The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 (first portable computer) -
Apple Computer
Founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs -
MODEM
Ward Christensen writes the programme "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a phone line -
DOS
IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS. -
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is introduced -
DNS
Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge. Seven 'top-level' domain names are initially introduced: edu, com, gov, mil, net, org and int. -
The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet -
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991 -
YAHOO
YAHOO is created in April, 1994. -
Java
Java is introduced -
Amazon
Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos -
EBay
EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar -
Hotmail
Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia. -
Google
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998 -
PayPal
PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin
