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Revision as of 17:50, 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 without a Time Frame
History of Computers - The Abacus
History of Computers - The Internet
