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First Computer Program
Ada Lovelace translated an article about Charies Babbage's proposed Analytic Engine. She described an algorithm that is cited as the first computer program. Link text -
The electric Tabulating System
Herman Hollerith developed the idea of the electric tabulating system. It is a machine that can read data.Link text -
The electric programmable computer
The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, developed by Tommy Flowers, and first demonstrated in December 1943. The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages.Link text -
The first computer actual 'bug'
Grace Murray Hopper, an admiral in the U.S. Navy and computer programming pioneer. He documented the first actual computer 'bug' when a moth got trapped in the Mark II Alken Relay Calculator. -
The first stored program computer
The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby".Link text -
The first computer company
he first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer. The company was later renamed to EMCC or Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and released a series of mainframe computers under the UNIVAC name.Link text -
The first transistor computer
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) is the first transistorized computer to be demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.Link text -
NWG
The first Network Working Group (NWG) meeting is held.First RFP for a network goes out.Link text -
First personal computer
In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the KENBAK-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights.Link text -
First Laptop
The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM. Link text -
First Apple Computer
The Apple I (Apple 1) was the first Apple computer that originally sold for $666.66. The computer kit was developed by Steve Wozniak in 1976 and contained a 6502 8-bit processor and 4 kb of memory, which was expandable to 8 or 48 kb using expansion cards. Although the Apple I had a fully assembled circuit board the kit still required a power supply, display, keyboard, and case to be operational. Link text -
The first PC clone
The Compaq Portable is considered to be the first PC clone and was release in March 1983 by Compaq. The Compaq Portable was 100% compatible with IBM computers and was capable of running any software developed for IBM computers.Link text -
WiFi
IEEE 802.11 is a set of media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications for implementing wireless local area network (WLAN) computer communication in the 900 MHz and 2.4, 3.6, 5, and 60 GHz frequency bands. They are created and maintained by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE 802). The base version of the standard was released in 1997, and has had subsequent amendments.Link -
iPad
iPad is an iOS-based line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc.The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard.Link text -
HTML5 programming language
The HTML5 programming language is recommended and release to the public. Link text
