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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

150 BC History of Computers - Antikythera Mechanism

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

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

1868 History of Computers - Typewriter

1873-1930 History of Computers - The Edison Effect

1890 History of Computers - Electronic Tabulating Machine

1896 History of Computers - CTR

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

1924-1929 History of Computers - Television

1934- History of Computers - Leonard Kleinrock

1936-1941 History of Computers - Programmable Digital Computing Machine

1941 History of Computers - Z3

1946 History of Computers - ENIAC

1947 History of Computers - Magnetic Core Memory

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

1976 History of Computers - Apple 1

1978 History of Computers - Solid State Memory

1978 History of Computers - Speak and Spell

1979 History of Computers - Wordstar

1982 History of Computers - Commodore 64

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 - Archie

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

2000 History of Computers- COPPA

2002 History of Computers - Projection Keyboard

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 - DSL

History of Computers - The Internet

History of Computers - Optical Amplifiers

History of Computers - Semiconductors

History of Computers - Smartmodem

History of Computers - Solid State Drive

History of Computers - Transistors