Computer History
1868-73 - (QWERTY keyboard) - James Denmore
1889 - Herman Hollerith patented electromechanical punch card tabulating system
1911 - Hollerith Tabulating Machine Company merged with Computing Tabulating Recording Company to form International Business Machines (IBM)
1943 - IBM and Harvard professor Howard Allen, complete the Mark I, first large scale automatic digital computer
1946 - ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
1948 - Transistors - William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain
1951 - UNIVAC - Universal Automatic Computer - Eckert and Mauchly for the Census Bureau
1957 - Fortan - John Backus
1958 - ALGOL Computer Language - Switzerland
1959 - COBAL - Grace Murphy Hopper
1962 - Microcomputer- Digital Corp
1964 - BASIC computer language - Thomas Kurtz and John G. Kennedy
1965 - Word processor- IBM
1967 - Computer pioneer Doug Engelbart patents a mouse
1968 - Intel: Andy Grove, Noyce, George Moore
1969 - AMD: Jeremiah Jerry Sander
1969 - Unix developed for Bell Laboratories
Sun Microsystems (Stanford University Network) - James Gosling (Stanford University)
Sun Microsystems (Stanford University Network) - Bill Joy (UC Berkeley)
1969 - Pascal Computer languages- Nicklaus Wirth
1970 - Computer Floppy disk - IBM
1970 - Bar code System - Monarch Marking, US and Plessey Telecom, England
1971 - Intel released the 4004
1971 - Liquid crystal display- Hoffman LaRoche Lab, Switzerland
1972 - Video disk - Philips Co, Netherlands
1972 - Video Games - Nolan’s Bushnel
1973 - Alto Computer - Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Complex - a graphical user interface (GUI)
1973 - IBM (bar code scanner)
1975 - First PC - MITS Altair 8800
1975 - Microsoft founded by Bill Gates (Harvard University) and Paul Allen
1976 - Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak
1977 - Apple II - text and graphics in color
1977 - RSI/Oracle
1977 - Oracle Commercial RDBMS
1981 - IBM PC - IBM 5150
IBM - Thomas Watson (Brown University)
Microsoft Windows 3.0 - (3 1/2 Floppy Disk) - (GUI)
1982 - A+ Certification Computer Technician
1983 - Oracle Portable RDBMS
1984 - Oracle Portable SQL toolset
1984 - Apple introduces the Macintosh computer (Lisa) - Graphical User Interface (GUI)
1984 - Megabit Computer chip - IBM
1984 - Cisco was founded in order to enable communication. In 1984, founders Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner
1985 - CD- ROM - Hitachi, Japan
1985 - AOL founded
1986 - Oracle Client/Server RDBMS
1987 - Oracle CASE tools
1987 - IBM - OS 2 Warp Operating System
1988 - Oracle 6 Released
1990 - Oracle client based toolsets
1991 - Linux operating system - Linux Torvalds (Finland)
1991 - Oracle Parallel Server released
1993 - Oracle CDE, Media Server
1994 - Oracle 7 for the PC
1995 - Windows 95
1996 - Palm Pilot - handheld computer and personal information manager - touch screens
1996 - Oracle Universal Server released
1997 - IBM Deep Blue Beats Garry Kasparov
1997 - Red Hat Linux 5.2
1997 - IPv4
1997 - Oracle 8 released
1998 - Windows 98
2000 - Windows NT - new technologies
2000 - Microsoft splits into 5 departments
2000 - Windows 2000
2001 - Apple introduced Unix like system for Mac OS X
2002 - The total number of personal computers, both desktop and laptop reach 1 billion
2003 - Windows XP
2003 - Microsoft Office / Microsoft Works
2003 - Google - Gmail
2005 - Windows Vista
2005 - Apple used IBM Power PC chips
2006 - Apple began using Intel chips
2007 - Apple introduced the iPhone
2007 - Amazon releases kindle
2008 - Google Releases mobile operating system - Google - Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Stanford University)
2010 - Apple sells 3 million iPad
2010 - Windows 7
Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard University)
2011 - Google chrome book
2011 - Lifi invented
2012 - Windows 8 operating system
2013 - Smartwatches
2014 - Amazon Echo
2014 - Apple Pay
2014 - IBM Summit
2014 - USB C
2015 - IPv6
2016 - Windows 10
2017 - Internet speed record 26.2 tbps
2018 - 2019 - 5G Networks
2019 - SpaceX Starlink
2019 - Google sycamore quantum chip
2020 - Internet speed record - 44.2 tbps
2020 - Internet speed record - 178 tbps
2021 - Metaverse
2021 - Internet speed record - 319 Tbps - terabits per second
2021 - Windows 11
2021 - IBM eagle quantum chip
2022 - IBM osprey quantum chip
2022 - Google deep mind ai - 200 million proteins
2022 - Internet speed record - 1 Pbps - petabit per second
2022 - Esnet6 network at 46 terabits tbps.
2022 - Frontier exabyte supercomputer
2023 - IBM Condor, Heron quantum chip
2023 - ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude
2023 - Wifi 7 routers - 46 gbps
2023 - Apple Vision Pro
2023 - Internet speed record - 1.8 pbps
2023 - Internet speed record - 22.9 pbps
2024 - Wifi Halow
2024 - Lorawan
2024 - Wireless speed record 938 Gbps
2024 - Google willow quantum chip
2024 - Google AlphaProof with AlphaGeometry won silver in a mathematics competition in 2024.
2025 - Stargate AI Project
2025 - Xanadu Aurora photonic quantum computer
2025 - Microsoft Majorana quantum chip
2025 - 1.02 Petabit internet transmitted over 1800 km
2025 - Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 6: World’s First 102.4 Tbps Switch
2025 - OpenAI won gold in mathematics competition in 2025.
2025 - Google AlphaProof with AlphaGeometry won gold in a mathematics competition in 2025.
2025 - Cursor coding ide and Kiro coding ide
2025 - Perplexity ai browser