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1647 [[History of Computers - Binary Arithmetic]] | 1647 [[History of Computers - Binary Arithmetic]] | ||
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1752-1834 [[History of Computers - Joseph Jacquard]] | 1752-1834 [[History of Computers - Joseph Jacquard]] | ||
1791-1871 [[History of Computers - Charles Babbage]] | 1791-1871 [[History of Computers - Charles Babbage]] | ||
Revision as of 17:49, 6 October 2008
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
1622 History of Computers - Slide Rule
1642 History of Computers - Pascaline
1647 History of Computers - Binary Arithmetic
1752-1834 History of Computers - Joseph Jacquard 1791-1871 History of Computers - Charles Babbage 1847-1931 History of Computers - Thomas Edison 1890 History of Computers - Electronic Tabulating Machine 1943-1944 History of Computers - Colossus Computer 1860-1929 History of Computers - Herman Hollerith 1874 History of Computers - Vacuum Tubes 1910-1995 History of Computers - Konrad Zuse 1923-2005 History of Computers - Jack Kilby 1936-1941 History of Computers - Programmable Digital Computing Machine 1952 History of Computers - Noughts and Crosses 1963 History of Computers - The Mouse 1967 History of Computers - The Floppy Disk 1971 History of Computers - Intel 4004 1972 History of Computers - Intel's 8 Bit Microprocessor 1972 History of Computers - Pong 1974 History of Computers - Operating System 1975 History of Computers - Microsoft 1978 History of Computers - Solid State Memory 1982 History of Computers - MS-DOS 1984 History of Computers - GUI 1984 History of Computers - The Macintosh 1990 History of Computers - HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 1990 History of Computers - Windows 3.0 1991 History of Computers - Wireless Networks 1995 History of Computers - Java 1996 History of Computers - Google 1996 History of Computers - Universal Serial Bus 2006 History of Computers - The Terabyte Hard Drive
Inventions with a Time Frame History of Computers - The Abacus History of Computers - The Internet History of Computers - Semiconductors History of Computers - Transistors
