History of Computers
This is the starting page for the St. John's Computer Hardware and Networking Classes History of Computer wiki. These wiki pages were started by the 2008-09 class. The assignment was to pick a person or invention that was deemed important in an era, to describe that person's contribution or the inventions function, and then give a discussion of the significance not only in terms of computers but the greater world at large.
Timeline of Inventions and People Important to the History of Computers
4000 BC History of Computers - Base 10
4000 BC History of Computers - Egyptian Number System
2700 BC History of Computers - The Abacus
1206 BC History of Computers - Al-Jazari's Castle Clock
400 BC History of Computers - Zero
300 BC History of Computers - Euclid's Elements
150 BC History of Computers - Antikythera Mechanism
150 BC History of Computers - Astrolabe
132 History of Computers - Zhang Heng’s Seismometer
1550-1617 History of Computers - John Napier
1592-1635 History of Computers - Wilhelm Schickard
1617 History of Computers - Napier's Bone
1622 History of Computers - Slide Rule
1623 History of Computers - The Speeding Clock
1642 History of Computers - Pascaline
1646-1716 History of Computers - Gottfried Leibniz
1647 History of Computers - Binary Arithmetic
1752-1834 History of Computers - Joseph Jacquard
1791-1871 History of Computers - Charles Babbage
1801 History of Computers - Jacquard Loom
1815-1852 History of Computers - Ada Lovelace
1820 History of Computers - The Arithometer
1821 History of Computers - The Difference Engines
1827 History of Computers - Ohm's Law
1836 History of Computers - Morse Code
1836 History of Computers - Telegraph
1837 History of Computers - Analytical Engine
1847 History of Computers - Boolean Logic
1847-1931 History of Computers - Thomas Edison
1849-1945 History of Computers - John Ambrose Fleming
1856-1943 History of Computers - Nikola Tesla
1860-1929 History of Computers - Herman Hollerith
1861 History of Computers - Color Photography
1861 History_of_Computers - Speakers
1868 History of Computers - Typewriter
1873-1930 History of Computers - The Edison Effect
1874 History of Computers - Vacuum Tubes
1876 History of Computers - Microphone
1877 History of Computers - Phonograph
1888 History of Computers - Friedrich Reintzer
1889 History_of_Computers - Nintendo
1890 History of Computers - Electronic Tabulating Machine
1894-1964 History of Computers - Norbert Wiener
1896 History of Computers - CTR
1897 History of Computers - CRT
1903–1957 History of Computers - John von Neumann
1903 History of Computers - Yazu Arithmometer
1906 History of Computers - Radio
1906-1992 History of Computers - Grace Murray Hopper
1910-1995 History of Computers - Konrad Zuse
1911 History of Computers - Origins of IBM
1912-1954 History of Computers - Alan Turing
1912-1996 History of Computers - David Packard
1920 History of Computers - Comptometer
1920-1992 History of Computers - Isaac Asimov
1920 History of Computers - KDKA
1921-2001 History of Computers - Tom Kilburn
1923-2005 History of Computers - Jack Kilby
1924 History of Computers - IBM
1924-1929 History of Computers - Television
1925-2013 History of Computers - Douglas Engelbart
1926 History of Computers - Patent of Semi-Conductors
1927 History of Computers - Magnetic Tape
1928 History of Computers - Magnetic tape
1931 History of Computers - Differential Analyzer
1932 History of Computers - RAM
1934-Now History of Computers - Leonard Kleinrock
1935 History of Computers - Hewlett-Packard
1935 History of Computers - Schrodinger's Cat
1936 History of Computers - The Lambda Calculus
1936 History of Computers - Lukyanov's Water Computer
1936 History of Computers - Turing Machine
1936 History of Computers - Z1
1936-1941 History of Computers - Programmable Digital Computing Machine
1937 History of Computers - Atanasoff-Berry Computer
1937-Now History of Computers - Ted Hoff
1938 History of Computers - Enigma and Turing
1940 History of Computers - Complex Number Calculator
1940 History of Computers - Self Reproducing Automata
1941 History of Computers - Z3
1942-2011 History of Computers - Brian Kernighan
1943-1944 History of Computers - Colossus Computer
1944 History of Computers - MIT's Whirlwind Computer
1945 History of Computers - Origin of the Term “Debug”
1945 History of Computers - Plankalkul
1945 History of Computers - Von Neumann Architecture
1946 History of Computers - ENIAC
1946 History of Computers - Sony
1947 History of Computers - Magnetic Core Memory
1947 History of Computers - Texas Instruments
1947-1949 History of Computers - CSIRAC
1948 History of Computers - Shannon-Fano Coding
1949 History of Computers - Assembly Language
1950-Now History of Computers - Steve Wozniak
1950 History of Computers - Turing Test
1951 History of Computers - UNIVAC
1952 History of Computers - IBM 701
1952 History of Computers - Noughts and Crosses
1952 History of Computers - Speech Recognition
1952-1987 History of Computers - BESM
1953 History of Computers - IBM 650
1955 History of Computers - Artificial Intelligence
1955-Now History of Computers - Bill Gates
1955-2008 History of Computers - Steve Jobs
1956 History of Computers - External Hard Drive
1956 History of Computers - IBM 350
1956 History of Computers - Ferranti Pegasus
1956 History of Computers - Programmable Read Only Memory
1957 History of Computers - Digital Equipment Corporation
1958 History of Computers - LISP
1958 History of Computers - Miniaturized Electronic Circuits
1959 History of Computers - The Unimate
1959 History of Computers - Xerox Copier
1960 History of Computers - Facial Recognition
1961 History of Computers - Integrated Circuit
1962 History of Computers - Spacewar!
1963 History of Computers - The Mouse
1964 History of Computers - BASIC
1964 History of Computers - CDC 6600
1965 History of Computers - TTL
1965 History of Computers - Touchscreen
1967 History of Computers - Global Positioning System
1967 History of Computers - GPS
1967 History of Computers - The Floppy Disk
1968 History of Computers - Intel
1968 History of Computers - LCD Televisions
1969 History of Computers - Unix
1970-2002 History of Computers - Xerox PARC
1970 History of Computers - Computer Generated Imaging
1971 History of Computers - 8-inch Floppy Disk
1971 History of Computers - Email
1971 History of Computers - Gamma Electric Cell
1971 History of Computers - Intel 4004
1971 History of Computers - Lou Montulli
1971 History of Computers - Motherboard
1972 History of Computers - ARPANET
1972 History of Computers - ARPAnet
1972 History of Computers - Atari
1972 History of Computers - Compact Disc
1972 History of Computers - Intel's 8 Bit Microprocessor
1972 History of Computers - INTERCAL
1972 History of Computers - Pong
1972 History of Computers - Superpaint
1973 History of Computers - Basic Input/Output System
1973 History of Computers - Ethernet
1974 History of Computers - Operating System
1975 History of Computers - Altair 8800
1975 History of Computers - Microsoft
1976 History of Computers - Apple 1
1977 History of Computers - Apple II
1977 History of Computers - Laser Printer
1978 History of Computers - Solid State Memory
1978 History of Computers - Speak and Spell
1978 History of Computers - Xerox Notetaker
1979 History of Computers - The Pixar Imaging Computer
1979 History of Computers - Walkman
1979 History of Computers - Wordstar
1980 History of Computers - Flash Memory
1981 History of Computers - Diskeeper
1981 History of Computers - IBM PC
1981 History of Computers - Midi
1981 History of Computers - Osborne 1
1982 History of Computers - 3D Monster Maze
1982 History of Computers - Commodore 64
1982 History of Computers - MS-DOS
1982 History of Computers - Word Perfect
1983 History of Computers - C++
1984 History of Computers - Dell
1984 History of Computers - GUI
1984 History of Computers - The Macintosh
1984 History of Computers - Renderman
1985 History of Computers - Graphing Calculator
1987 History of Computers - Apple Newton
1987 History of Computers - Perl
1988 History of Computers - IBM PC Clone Computer
1989 History of Computers - CorelDRAW
1990 History of Computers - Archie
1990 History of Computers - HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
1990 History of Computers - Windows 3.0
1991 History of Computers - CD-i
1991 History of Computers - Python
1991 History of Computers - Wireless Networks
1991 History of Computers - Linux
1991 History of Computers - Webcam
1992 History of Computers - MP3
1993 History of Computers - Adobe Flash
1993 History of Computers - Mosaic Web Browser
1993 History of Computers - Windows NT
1993 History of Computers - Wine
1994 History of Computers - Amazon
1994 History of Computers - Bluetooth
1994 History of Computers - Mozilla
1994 History of Computers - Zip Drive
1995 History of Computers - Digital Versatile Disc
1995 History of Computers - Java
1995 History of Computers - Internet Explorer
1995 History of Computers - Yahoo!
1996 History of Computers - Google
1996 History of Computers - Nintendo 64
1996 History of Computers - PageRank
1996 History of Computers - Push Technology
1996 History of Computers - Quake Engine
1996 History of Computers - Universal Serial Bus
1997 History of Computers - Deep Blue
1997 History of Computers - Netflix
1998 History of Computers - Bitcoin
1998 History of Computers - The Flash Drive
1998 History of Computers - Open-Source Software
1999 History of Computers - The Athlon Processor
1999 History of Computers - Blue Gene
1999 History of Computers - Napster
2000 History of Computers - COPPA
2001 History of Computers - BitTorrent Protocol
2001 History of Computers - POWER4
2001 History of Computers - Xbox
2002 History of Computers - Projection Keyboard
2003 History of Computers - Myspace
2003 History of Computers - The Pirate Bay
2003 History of Computers - Steam
2003 History of Computers - Tesla
2004 History of Computers - Facebook
2004 History of Computers - Mozilla Firefox
2005 History of Computers - Arduino
2005 History of Computers - RFID
2005 History of Computers - Reprap Project
2005 History of Computers - YouTube
2006 History of Computers - ESight
2006 History of Computers - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
2006 History of Computers - The Terabyte Hard Drive
2007 History of Computers - Clojure
2007 History of Computers - Crysis
2007 History of Computers - Hulu
2007 History of Computers - iPhone
2007 History of Computers - Watson
2008 History of Computers - Cydia
2008 History of Computers - Dropbox
2008 History of Computers - Twitter
2008 History of Computers - USB 3.0
2009 History of Computers - Android
2010 History of Computers - iPad
2010 History of Computers - Kinect
2011 History of Computers - Chromebooks
2011 History of Computers - The Silk Road
2011 History of Computers - Siri
2012 History of Computers - Raspberry Pi
2012 History of Computers - STEALTH
2013 History of Computers - Apple CarPlay
2013 History of Computers - Google Glass
2013 History of Computers - Touch ID
2014 History of Computers - Apple Watch
2015 History of Computers - Smart Watches
2016 History of Computers - Oculus Rift
2017 History of Computers - AMD Threadripper
2018 History of Computers - Razer's Optomechanical Switch
Inventions without a Time Frame
History of Computers - .NET Framework
History of Computers - 3D Printing
History of Computers - Apollo Guidance Computer
History of Computers - Artificial Neural Network
History of Computers - Bayesian Classification
History of Computers - Communication Satellites
History of Computers - Data Encryption Standard
History of Computers - Deep Learning
History of Computers - Graphics Processing Unit
History of Computers - Intelligent User Interfaces
History of Computers - The Internet
History of Computers - The Internet Troll
History of Computers - Jailbreaking
History of Computers - Location-Based Games
History of Computers - Maya Numerical System
History of Computers - Optical Amplifiers
History of Computers - P2P Networks
History of Computers - Prehistoric Counting
History of Computers - Punch Card Programming
History of Computers - Quantum Computer
History of Computers - Retinal Scanning
History of Computers - Robotic Limbs
History of Computers - Self-Driving Cars
History of Computers - Semiconductors
History of Computers - Sending of Long-Distance Wireless Power
History of Computers - Serial Communication
History of Computers - Servers
History of Computers - Smartmodem
History of Computers - Smartphones
History of Computers - Solid State Drive
History of Computers - Supercomputers
History of Computers - The Cloud
History of Computers - The Deep Web
History of Computers - Transistors
