Computer

The History of Computers

  • Z1 Computer

    Z1 Computer
    Konrad Zuse invented the Z1 computer which was the first freely programmable computer.
  • Z3 Computer

    Z3 Computer
    Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer. The Z3 was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere. Using 2,300 relays, the Z3 used floating point binary arithmetic and had a 22-bit word length. The original Z3 was destroyed in a bombing raid of Berlin in late 1943. However, Zuse later supervised a reconstruction of the Z3 in the 1960s which is currently on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
  • Advances in Software and Language

    Advances in Software and Language
    Claude Shannon´s "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" showed engineers how to code data so they could check for accuracy after transmission between computers. Shannon identified the bit as the fundamental unit of data and, coincidentally, the basic unit of computation.
  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC
    John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly ivented the UNIVAC which was the first commercial computer and was able to pick presidential winners.
  • Computer Mouse & Windows

    Computer Mouse & Windows
    Douglas Engelbart nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.
  • ARPAnet

    ARPAnet
    The first original Internet.
  • Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers

    Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers
    The first consumer computers.
  • Apple Lisa Computer

    Apple Lisa Computer
    The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web (WWW) is born after researcher Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language.
  • First I-Pad Released

    First I-Pad Released
  • I-Pad Mini

    I-Pad Mini