In 1890, Herman Hollerith developed a method for machines to record and store information onto punch cards to be used for the US census. He later formed the company we know as IBM (International Business Machines) today.

The Z1 originally created by Germany's Konrad Zusein 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer.

• In 1946, John Mauchly and John PresperEckert developed the ENIAC I (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator).1st

type of Computer

• In 1947/48 John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, at the Bell Telephone Laboratories invented Transistor

• The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. PresperEckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer.

• In 1951 First commercial computer or Universal Automatic Computer or UNIVAC was developed by John PresperEckert & John W. Mauchly.

• Remington Rand became the first American manufacturers of a commercial computer system. It sold Forty-six UNIVAC computers

• FORTRAN or formula translation was the first high level programming language (software) invented by John Backus for IBM in 1954.

• In 1953 Grace Hopper invented the first high-level language, "Flow-matic". This language eventually became COBOL.

• Grace Hopper also constructed the world's first compiler or A high-level language

• Developed in 1955 at Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General Electric

ERMA (Electronic Recording Method of Accounting computer processing system) and

MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) ;

• The first bank industry computer . An effort to computerize the banking industry

• In 1958 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyceinvented The Integrated Circuit (IC) OR CHIP

• in 1962 Steve Russell created the first popular computer game. Starwar

• In 1964 Douglas Engelbartinvented the computer mouse

• in 1969 ARPAnet - The First Internet was developed.

•In 1965 James Russell invented the Compact Disk or CD

• In November, 1971, Intel company introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor.

• In 1971, IBM introduced the first "memory disk", or the "floppy disk“ . Invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart.

• The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer or Laptop, which was released on September 1975.

• In 1981, IBM created its first personal home-use computer called the IBM PC

• Released in 1979 by MicroproInternational, WordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program

• VisiCalc was the first computer spreadsheet program. It was released to the public in 1979, running on an Apple IIcomputer.

• In 1976, the inkjet printer was invented,

• In 1938, Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography commonly called a Xerox

• The original laser printer called EARS was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center beginning in 1969 and completed in November, 1971.

• First 3D game, The game Duke Nukem 3D is released January 29, 1996.

• Java is a programming language and environment invented by James Gosling and others in 1994. Java was originally named Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project at the Sun Company.