computer science history

ENIAC

Jan 1, 1943

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer by most is considered to be the first electronic computer.

Konrad zuse

Jan 1, 1945

Konrad zuse created the first computer programing language.

UNIVAC

Jan 1, 1950

The United States Government receives the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101. This computer is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory.

FORTRAN

Jan 1, 1957

fortran was a computer programing software that used english like commands to solve mathematical equations

basic

Jan 1, 1964

developed by the students of dartmouth college, it was designed to be a simplified language for beginners.

univac

Jan 1, 1965

is a computer language that solves advanced math equations

c

Jan 1, 1969

c was created for telephone laboratories, linux is based off of c

internet

Jan 1, 1973

Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET. The term Internet is born.

c++

Jan 1, 1979

C++ is a middle-level programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs.

IBM

Aug 12, 1981

IBM was the first personal computer with a reasonable price rangeTHe IBM PC had a 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and utilized MS-DOS.

www

Jan 1, 1991

the world wide web is introduced by CERN

Netscape

Jan 1, 1994

Netscape is born and Microsoft creates a web browser for windows 95

Mini computers

Jan 1, 1996

Nokia introduced a phone that had internet capabilities. This started a revolution of devices that were small'portable computers.

internet

Sep 5, 2009

the internet is 40 years old