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Revision as of 09:12, 6 October 2009
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
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
1647 History of Computers - Binary Arithmetic
1752-1834 History of Computers - Joseph Jacquard
1791-1871 History of Computers - Charles Babbage
1820 History of Computers - The Arithometer
1827 History of Computers - Ohm's Law
1837 History of Computers - Analytical Engine
1847 History of Computers - Boolean Logic
1847-1931 History of Computers - Thomas Edison
1868 History of Computers - Typewriter
1873-1930 History of Computers - The Edison Effect
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
1888 History of Computers - Friedrich Reintzer
1910-1995 History of Computers - Konrad Zuse
1921-2001 History of Computers - Tom Kilburn
1923-2005 History of Computers - Jack Kilby
1936-1941 History of Computers - Programmable Digital Computing Machine
1941 History of Computers - Z3
1946 History of Computers - ENIAC
1952 History of Computers - Noughts and Crosses
1962 History of Computers - Spacewar!
1963 History of Computers - The Mouse
1965 History of Computers - TTL
1967 History of Computers - The Floppy Disk
1970-2002 History of Computers - Xerox PARC
1971 History of Computers - Intel 4004
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
1974 History of Computers - Operating System
1975 History of Computers - Microsoft
1978 History of Computers - Solid State Memory
1979 History of Computers - Wordstar
1982 History of Computers - MS-DOS
1982 History of Computers - Word Perfect
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
1993 History of Computers - Wine
1994 History of Computers - Mozilla
1995 History of Computers - Java
1995 History of Computers - Internet Explorer
1996 History of Computers - Google
1996 History of Computers - Universal Serial Bus
2006 History of Computers - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
2006 History of Computers - The Terabyte Hard Drive
Inventions without a Time Frame
History of Computers - The Abacus
History of Computers - The Internet
History of Computers - Optical Amplifiers
