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
300 BC History of Computers - Euclid’s Elements
150 BC History of Computers - Antikythera Mechanism
150 BC History of Computers - Astrolabe
1592-1635 History of Computers - Wilhelm Schickard
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
1815-1852 History of Computers - Ada Lovelace
1820 History of Computers - The Arithometer
1827 History of Computers - Ohm's Law
1836 History of Computers - Morse Code
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 - 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
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 History of Computers - Yazu Arithmometer
1906-1992 History of Computers - Grace Murray Hopper
1910-1995 History of Computers - Konrad Zuse
1911 History of Computers - Origins of IBM
1912-1996 History of Computers - David Packard
1920 History of Computers - Comptometer
1921-2001 History of Computers - Tom Kilburn
1923-2005 History of Computers - Jack Kilby
1924-1929 History of Computers - Television
1926 History of Computers - Patent of Semi-Conductors
1927 History of Computers - Magnetic Tape
1928 History of Computers - Magnetic tape
1932 History of Computers - RAM
1934-Now History of Computers - Leonard Kleinrock
1935 History of Computers - Hewlett-Packard
1936 History of Computers - The Lambda Calculus
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
1941 History of Computers - Z3
1942-2011 History of Computers - Brian Kernighan
1943-1944 History of Computers - Colossus Computer
1945 History of Computers - Plankalkul
1945 History of Computers - Von Neumann Architecture
1946 History of Computers - ENIAC
1947 History of Computers - Magnetic Core Memory
1947 History of Computers - Texas Instruments
1950-Now History of Computers - Steve Wozniak
1951 History of Computers - UNIVAC
1952 History of Computers - Noughts and Crosses
1952-1987 History of Computers - BESM
1955-Now History of Computers - Bill Gates
1958 History of Computers - Miniaturized Electronic Circuits
1959 History of Computers - Xerox Copier
1962 History of Computers - Spacewar!
1963 History of Computers - The Mouse
1964 History of Computers - CDC 6600
1965 History of Computers - Moore's Law
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
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
1972 History of Computers - ARPANET
1972 History of Computers - ARPAnet
1972 History of Computers - Atari
1972 History of Computers - Intel's 8 Bit Microprocessor
1972 History of Computers - Pong
1972 History of Computers - Compact Disc
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
1978 History of Computers - Solid State Memory
1978 History of Computers - Speak and Spell
1979 History of Computers - Wordstar
1980 History of Computers - Flash Memory
1981 History of Computers - Diskeeper
1981 History of Computers - Osborne 1
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 - GUI
1984 History of Computers - The Macintosh
1984 History of Computers - Renderman
1985 History of Computers - Graphing Calculator
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 - Wine
1993 History of Computers - Adobe Flash
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
1996 History of Computers - Google
1996 History of Computers - Push Technology
1996 History of Computers - Universal Serial Bus
1997 History of Computers - Deep Blue
1998 History of Computers - The Flash Drive
2000 History of Computers - COPPA
2001 History of Computers - BitTorrent Protocol
2001 History of Computers - POWER4
2002 History of Computers - Projection Keyboard
2004 History of Computers - Facebook
2004 History of Computers - Mozilla Firefox
2005 History of Computers - YouTube
2005 History of Computers - Reprap Project
2006 History of Computers - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
2006 History of Computers - The Terabyte Hard Drive
2007 History of Computers - Crysis
2007 History of Computers - iPhone
2007 History of Computers - Watson
Inventions without a Time Frame
History of Computers - 3D Printing
History of Computers - The Abacus
History of Computers - Communication Satellites
History of Computers - The Internet
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 - Semiconductors
History of Computers - Smartmodem
History of Computers - Smartphones
History of Computers - Solid State Drive
History of Computers - The Internet Troll
