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)
- 2012 - Windows 8 operating system
- 2015 - IPv6
- 2016 - Windows 10
Quantum Articles
April 24, 1990 – Hubble launched. Space shuttle Discovery (on mission STS-31) launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying five astronauts and the Hubble Space Telescope.
August 16, 2016 - China launches quantum-enabled satellite Micius
10/27/2020 - NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid That’s Worth $10 Quadrillion
February 2, 2021 - Scientists Achieve 'Transformational' Breakthrough in Scaling Quantum Computers
February 6, 2021 - Scientists Fire Up a Commercially Available Desktop Quantum Computer
February 7, 2021 - IBM's roadmap for building an open quantum software ecosystem
March 29, 2021 - Honeywell says quantum computers will outpace standard verification in ’18 to 24 months’
March 29, 2021 - Fiber Optics Could Be the Key to Million-Qubit Quantum Computers
March 31, 2021 - ZDNet Quantum Computing