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Hermin Hollerith: Electric Tabulating system
Hollerith invented the tabulator and the keypunch system, which form the basis for information processing -
ABC Computer
John Vincent Antanasoff and Clifford Berry created the first electronic computer that was used to solve linear equations. -
EDSAC Computer
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was originally built in in the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory by a team lead by the late Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes immediately following the Second World War. It is generally accepted that the EDSAC was the first practical general purpose stored program electronic computer. -
Fortran
The first high level computer programming language was created by John Backus. It was called Fortran. -
Spacewar
Spacewar! was the first computer video game created. It was developed in 1962 by Steve Russell, in collaboration with Martin Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen, and programmed by Russell with assistance from others including Bob Saunders and Steve Piner. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
BASIC
BASIC, a programming language designed to help people learn how to write computer programs, was invented at Dartmouth University by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. -
Pascal
The Pascal programming language was originally developed by Niklaus Wirth, a member of the International Federation of Information Processing.Professor Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal to provide features that were lacking in other languages of the time. His principle objectives for Pascal were for the language to be efficent to implement and run, allow for the development of well structured and well organized programs. -
SQL
is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system. It was created by Donald Chamberlin. -
ADA
ADA was named after Ada Lovelace, the mother of computer programming. It was designed by Jean Ichbiah and a team of developers for the DoD to be a better version of what they had at the time. -
C++
C++ is an intermediate computer language with both high and low level programming features. It is used for a wide range of hardware and operating systems. It was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup. -
Acorn
The first IBM personal computer, code-named "Acorn," is introduced. It uses Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system. It has an Intel chip, two floppy disks and an optional color monitor. -
The Internet
In 1992, a group of students and researchers at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated browser that they called Mosaic. (It later became Netscape.) Mosaic offered a user-friendly way to search the Web: It allowed users to see words and pictures on the same page for the first time and to navigate using scrollbars and clickable links. -
Wifi
WiFi was invented when a committee called 802.11 was created. This lead to the creation of IEEE802.11, which refers to a set of standards that define communication for wireless local area networks. Following this, a basic specification for WiFi was established, allowing two megabytes per second of data transfer wirelessly between devices. This sparked a development in prototype equipment to comply with IEEE802.11, and in 1999, WiFi was introduced for home use. -
Apple
Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system, which provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking, among other benefits. -
Scratch
Scratch, a visual programming language designed to teach programming concepts, was released. Scratch is a free visual programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab. Scratch was created to help young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically and work collaboratively.
