Timeline

TIMELINEMILESTONE IN COMPUTER HISTORY

04/10/2023Prepared by:J.B.CAJIGAS

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The Discoveries…Convenience


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1937

•Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry design and build the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry-Computer)

•The foundation for advancements in electronic digital computers


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1943

•World War II•Alan Turing designs Colossus•Created for military to break German Codes•Existence is kept secret

until the 1970’s


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1945

• John von Neumann built an electronic computer

• Institute for Advanced •Served as the prototype

for subsequent stored program computers


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1946

•Dr. John W. Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert, Jr.

•First large-scale electronic digital computer

•ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)•30 tons•18,000 vacuum tubes•30 x 50 foot space


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1947

•William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain•Transfer resistance device, the Transistor•Much more reliable than Vacuum Tubes


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1951

•UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer)•The first commercially

available electronic digital computer

• Remington Rand


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1953

• IBM Model 650 •First widely use computer•Originally planning to produce

50 machines only•Because of the success

IBM manufactures more than 1,000


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1957

•Fortran (FORmula TRANSlation)•Programming Language• John Backus

• IBM 305 RAMAC system•The first to use magnetic disk

for external storage


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1959

• IBM introduces two smaller, dusk sized computers• IBM 1401 for business• IBM 1620 for scientist


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1960

•COBOL •A high-level business

application language•Dr. Grace Hopper


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1964

•The number of computers has grown to 18,000•Third generation computers, with their controlling

circuitry stored on chips, are introduced• IBM introduces the term word processing•MT/ST (Magnetic Tape

/Selectric Typewriter)•The first reusable storage medium

that allowed typed material to be edited


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1965

•BASIC programming language•Dr. John Kemeny•Widely used on personal computers

•DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)• Introduces the first minicomputer,

PDP-8


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1968

•Alan Shugart demonstrates at IBM the first regular use of an 8-inch floppy (magnetic storage)disk


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1969

• IBM announces that some of its software will be priced separately from the computer hardware

•ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network)

•Predecessor of the Internet


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1970

•Fourth-Generation computers built with chips that uses LSI (large-scale integration)

•The chips used in 1965 contained as many as 1,000 circuits, the LSI chip contains as many as 15,000


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1971

•Dr. Ted Hoff of Intel Corporation• Intel 4004 •Microprocessor or microprogrammable computer

chip


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1975

•MITS, Inc. advertises one of the first microcomputers•Altair, named for the destination in an episode of

Star Trek• Initially it has no keyboard, no monitor, no

permanent memory, and no software


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1975

•Ethernet, the first LAN is developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)

•Robert Metcalf• LAN (Local Area Network)•Allows computers to communicate

and share software, data, and peripherals


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1976

•Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

•First Apple computer•Followed by the

succeeding versions


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1977

•Mattel Auto Race was the first in the line of many Mattel Electronics games, and is credited with being the first handheld game that was entirely digital

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1979

•VisiCalc (Visible Calculator)•A spreadsheet program•Bob Frankston and

Dan Bricklin•Originally run on

Apple II computers

•CompuServe and the Source•The first public online information services


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1979

• It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language and originally named C with Classes


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The Enhancements…Convenience/Power


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1980• IBM offers Microsoft Corp.

co-founder, Bill Gates to develop the OS for their next IBM personal computer

• The development of MS-DOS• Microsoft achieves tremendous

growth and success

• Alan Shugart• Winchester hard drive• Revolutionizing storage for personal computers


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1981

•The first computer virus, Elk Cloner is spread via Apple II floppy disks


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1981

• IBM PC is introduced, signaling IBM’s entrance into the personal computer marketplace


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1982

•3,275,000 million computers are sold, almost 3,000,000 more than in 1981

•Compaq, Inc. is founded to develop and market IBM-compatible PCs

•Hayes introduces the 300 bps smart modem. The modem is an immediate success


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1982

•The HX-20, the first notebook-sized portable computer, is introduced by Epson.


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1983

•TIME magazines names the computer

“Machine of the Year” for 1982, acknowledging the impact of computers on society


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1983

• Lotus Development Corp. is founded. Lotus 1-2-3 which combines spreadsheet, graphics, and database programs becomes the best selling program for IBM PCs


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1984

•Apple introduces Macintosh computer, which incorporates a unique, easy to learn, GUI (Graphical User Interfaces)


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1984

•Hewlett-Packard announces the first LaserJet printer for personal computers


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1988

•Microsoft surpasses Lotus Development Corporation to become the world’s top software vendor


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1989

•Tim Berners-Lee• Internet-based hypermedia

enterprise for information sharing•Birth of WWW World Wide Web


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1989

• Intel 486•World’s first 1,000,000 transistor microprocessor


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1991

•World Wide Web Consortium•Releases standards that

describe a framework for linking documents on different computers


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1992

•Windows 3.1• In two months 3,000,000

copies of this are sold


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1993

• Intel Pentium •Successor to the Intel 486 processor•Contains 3.1 million transistors

•Microsoft Office 3 professional•The first version of

Microsoft office


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1994

• Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen•Netscape Navigator 1.0•A browser for the World Wide Web


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1994

• Linus Torvalds• Linux kernel UNIX-like OS•Free across the Internet for further modification by

other programmers


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1995

• JAVA by Sun Microsystems •Object-oriented programming language• Java becomes one of the hotter Internet

technologies

•MS Windows 95•50,000 test the software before

it is released


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1995

•ebay Inc. an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website


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1996

•Microsoft Windows NT •OS for client-server networks


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1996

•50 million PCs are sold worldwide •2/3 employees have access to a PC and 1/3 homes

has a PC


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1996

•US Robotics introduces Palm Pilot•Become popular among other PDAs

because of it’s user-friendliness and low price


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1997

•Apple and Microsoft sign a joint technology development agreement

•Microsoft buys $150,000,000 of Apple stock

•Birth of DVD Digital Versatile Disc•The next generation optical disc storage technology

• Intel Pentium II processor•Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0


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1998

•More than 10,000,000people take up telecommuting


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1998

•Apple computer introduces iMac• iMac abandons floppy disk drive


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1998

•E-commerce, the marketing of goods and services over the Internet booms.

•Dell, E*TRADE, and Amazon.com spur online shopping


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1998

•Microsoft ships Windows 98• Improved Internet access, better system

performance, and support for a new generation of hardware and software


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1998

•Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to Maya, is 3D computer graphics software that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation


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1999

•Microsoft Office 2000

•Open source code software such as the Linux OS and the Apache Web server created by unpaid volunteers, begin to gain acceptance


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1999

•Y2K Bug•Other computers cannot

distinguish whether 01/01/00 refers to 1900 or 2000, and thus may operate using a wrong date


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The Leveling UP…Convenience/Power/Opportunity


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2000

•Shawn Fanning and his company Napster•Software that allows computer user to swap music

files•Recording industry of America sues Napster for

copyright infringement and win

•E-commerce achieves mainstream acceptance• Internet advertising increases


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2000

•Microsoft ships Windows 2000 and Windows ME

•According to US Dept. of Commerce, Internet traffic is doubling every 100 days


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2000

•Telemedicine uses satellite technology and video conferencing to broadcast consultations and to perform distant surgeries.

•Robots are use for complex and precise task


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2000

•ASIMO, a humanoid robot created by Honda. Standing at 130 centimeters (4 feet 3 inches) and weighing 54 kilograms (119 pounds)


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2001

•MS Office XP the next version of productivity software

•MS Windows XP for the desktop and servers


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2001

• Intel Pentium 4 with clock speeds starting 1.4 GHz•42 million transistors•Predecessor of Pentium III

•E-books becomes a hobby , which are digital texts read on compact computer screens


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2002

• Improved Intel Pentium 4 operating at speeds of 3.06 GHz

•DVD writers begin to replace CD writers


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2002

•Tablet PC reintroduced as the next-generation mobile PC


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2003

•Wireless computers become commonplace• Latest OS supports both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

standards

•Microsoft Office 2003 released


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2004

•RealNetworks, Microsoft, Sony, and Wal-Mart stake out turf in the online music store business started by Apple Computer

•Apple’s iTunes Music Store sold nearly 20 million songs for 99 cents each


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2004

•Flat Panel LCD monitors overtake bulky CRT monitors

•USB flash drive become a cost effective way to transport data


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2004

•Apple computer introduces the sleek iMac G5

•Computer’s display device contains the system unit


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2005

•10 percent of the web users has been moved from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox

•Xbox 360 releases by Microsoft


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2005

•Blogging and Podcasting become mainstream methods for distributing information via the web

•Smart phone overtakes PDAs


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2005

•Microsoft introduces Visual Studio 2005, this includes Visual basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++ and SQL Server

•Apple iPod the Video-Pod


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2005

•Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc


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2006

•Sony launches Play Station 3

•Sony Play Station 2 won 90 million from the previous sales over 24 million from Xbox and 21 million from GameCube consoles


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2006

•MS Windows Vista with new version of Internet Explorer 7

• Improve security, deployment, manageability, and performance


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2006

•Apple begins selling Macintosh computers with Intel microprocessors

• Intel Pentium D


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2006

• IBM produces the fastest supercomputer called Blue Gene/L

• It can perform 28 trillion calculations in the time it takes you to blink your eye, or about one-tenth of a second


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2006

•Blu-ray Disc (official abbreviation BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format.

•Blu-ray Disc Association


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2007

•The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, Handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile platform designed and marketed by Apple Inc.


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2009

•Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free antivirus software product created by Microsoft that provides protection against different types of malware


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2010

•The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc.


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2011

•Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 750 million active users.


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2011

•Microsoft Corporation agreed to acquire Skype Communications for US$8.5 billion.

•The company is to be incorporated as a division of Microsoft


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2011

•Friendster shifted from social networking site to a social entertainment site which focus on gaming and music. The accounts are unchanged and still existing


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Continuously Innovating…Convenience/Power/Opportunity…

Thank you!

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