Brief History of Computer

The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613 in a book called “The young mans gleanings” by English writer Richard Braithwait. It referred to a person who carried out calculations, or computations, and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century. From the end of the 19th century the word began to take on its more familiar meaning, a machine that carries out computations.

                        The Zuse Z3, 1941, considered the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine.

Computer History Year/Enter	Computer History Inventors/Inventions	Computer History Description of Event
1936	Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer	First freely programmable computer.
1942	John Atanasoff & Clifford BerryABC Computer	Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC.
1944	Howard Aiken & Grace HopperHarvard Mark I Computer	The Harvard Mark 1 computer.
1946	John Presper Eckert & John W. MauchlyENIAC 1 Computer	20,000 vacuum tubes later...
1948	Frederic Williams & Tom KilburnManchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube	Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories.
1947/48	John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam ShockleyThe Transistor	No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.
1951	John Presper Eckert & John W. MauchlyUNIVAC Computer	First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.
1953	International Business MachinesIBM 701 EDPM Computer	IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'.
1954	John Backus & IBM  FORTRAN Computer Programming Language	The first successful high level programming language.
1955 (In Use 1959)	Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America, and General ElectricERMA and MICR	The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks.
1958	Jack Kilby & Robert NoyceThe Integrated Circuit	Otherwise known as 'The Chip'
1962	Steve Russell & MITSpacewar Computer Game	The first computer game invented.
1964	Douglas EngelbartComputer Mouse & Windows	Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.
1969	ARPAnet	The original Internet.
1970	Intel 1103 Computer Memory	The world's first available dynamic RAM chip.
1971	Faggin, Hoff & Mazor Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor	The first microprocessor.
1971	Alan Shugart &IBMThe "Floppy" Disk	Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility.
1973	Robert Metcalfe & XeroxThe Ethernet Computer Networking	Networking.
1974/75	Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers	The first consumer computers.
1976/77	Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers	More first consumer computers.
1978	Dan Bricklin & Bob FrankstonVisiCalc Spreadsheet Software	Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner.
1979	Seymour Rubenstein & Rob BarnabyWordStar Software	Word Processors.
1981	IBMThe IBM PC - Home Computer	From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution
1981	MicrosoftMS-DOS Computer Operating System	From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century.
1983	Apple Lisa Computer	The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.
1984	Apple Macintosh Computer	The more affordable home computer with a GUI.
1985	Microsoft Windows	Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
1987–1992 1991	Windows 2.0–2.11 Linux Kernel has creared	Windows 2.0 is designed for the Intel 286 processor Linus Torvald started the project on linux kernel
1990–1994 1994	Windows 3.0–Windows NT Red hat and Suse published version 1	When Windows NT releases on July 27, 1993, Microsoft meets an important milestone: the completion of a project begun in the late 1980s to build an advanced new operating system from scratch   In March Torvalds judges all components of the kernel to be fully matured: he releases version 1.0 of Linux
1995–2001	Windows 95—the PC comes of age	In 1996, Microsoft releases Flight Simulator for Windows 95—the first time in its 14-year history that it’s available for Windows.
1998–2000 1999	Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me GNOME was developed	Released on June 25, 1998, Windows 98 is the first version of Windows designed specifically for consumers A group of developers begin work on the graphical environment GNOME, destined to become a free replacement for KDE, which at the time, depends on the, then proprietary, Qt toolkit. During the year IBM announces an extensive project for the support of Linux.
2001–2005:	Windows XP	On October 25, 2001, Windows XP is released with a redesigned look and feel that's centered on usability and a unified Help and Support services center
2006–2008	Windows Vista	Windows Vista is released in 2006 with the strongest security system
2009 2011	Windows 7 Linux version 3 was released	Windows 7 was built for the wireless world that arose in the late 2000s Version 3.0 of the Linux kernel is released.
2012	Windows 8	Windows 8 is Windows reimagined from the chipset to the user experience
SERIES	TO BE	CONTINUED

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