Tomáš Doležel History of computers (1801 – 2005)
19th century 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard 1822 - Charles Babbage - Worlds first computer 1890 - Herman Hollerith - IBM
1st half of 20th century 1936 - Alan Turing - Turing machine 1937 - J.V. Atanasoff 1941 - Atanasoff and Clifford Berry - main memory 1943-44 - J. Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert - ENIAC 1946 - J.M. and J.P.E. UNIVAC 1947 - Bell Laboratories - no need for a vacuum
2nd half of 20th century 1953 - Grace Hopper - first computer language - COBOL 1958 - Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce - computer chip 1964 - Douglas Engelbart - prototype of modern computer 1969 - Bell Labs - OS UNIX 1970 - Intel - DRAM chip 1971 - Alan Shugart - floppy disk 1973 - Robert Metcalfe - Ethernet 1974-77 - Personal computers hit the market
2nd half of 20th century 1975 - Paul Allen and Bill Gates - Altair - Microsoft 1976 - Jobs and Wozniak - Apple - Apple I - single circuit board 1977 - Apple II - color graphics, audio cassette drive for storage 1981 - IBM - PC - MS-DOS, Intel chip, 2 floppy disks 1983 - Apple´s Lisa - GUI, drop-down menu, icons 1985 - first doc-com domain name is registered 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee - HTML - WWW 1996 - Sergey Brin and Larry Page - Google search engine 1999 - Wi-Fi
21st century 2001 - Apple - Mac OS X / Microsoft - Windows XP 2003 - AMD - first 64-bit proccesor available for consumers market 2004 - Firefox, Facebook 2005 - YouTube, Google - Android
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