Year
Event
50,000 B.C.
The first evidence of counting is dated back around 50,000 B.C.
30,000 B.C.
Paleolithic peoples in Europe record numbers by notching tallies on bones, ivory, and stone.
4000 B.C.
Metals begin being created and used.
3500 B.C.
The first evidence of writing is dated back to around 3,500 B.C.
3400 B.C.
Egyptians develop a symbol for the number 10, making counting larger numbers easier.
3300 B.C.
The Bronze Age begins.
3000 B.C.
Hieroglyphic numerals are first used in Egypt.
2600 B.C.
Chinese introduce the abacus.
1350 B.C.
Chinese use the first decimal.
1350 B.C.
Iron begins being developed.
100 B.C.
The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be first created.
300 B.C.
Mathematician Euclid releases Euclid's Elements, 13 books that summarize all mathematical knowledge of the Greeks.
300 B.C.
The Salamis Tablet, Roman Calculi, and hand-abacus, much like today's abacus.
260 B.C.
The Maya develop base-20 system of mathematics, which introduce zero.
1000 A.D.
A churchman by the name of Gerbert d'Aurillac, who later becomes Pope Sylvester II, introduces the abacus and Hindu-Arabic math to Europe.
Year
Event
1232
Ramon Llull is born c. 1232.
1315
Ramon Llull passes away c. 1315 (Age:83)
1440
Johannes Gutenberg completes his development of the Gutenberg press, the first printing press.
1452
Leonardo da Vinci is born April 15, 1452.
1492
Leonardo da Vinci makes drawing of 13-digit cog-wheeled adder
Year
Event
1500
Leonardo da Vinci invents the mechanical calculator.
1502
Peter Henlein, a craftsman from Nuremberg Germany, creates the first watch.
1519
Leonardo da Vinci passes away May 2, 1519 (Age:67)
1550
John Napier is born in 1550.
1561
Francis Bacon is born January 22, 1561.
1561
Henry Briggs is born in February 1561.
1571
Johannes Kepler is born December 27, 1571.
1592
Wilhelm Schickard is born April 22, 1592.
1596
René Descartes is born March 31, 1596.
Year
Event
1600
William Gilbert coins the term electricity from the Greek word elecktra.
1605
Francis Bacon devices the Baconian Cipher, a cipher that used A's and B's to encode messages.
1613
The word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and was originally used to describe a person who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same until the end of the 19th century when it began referring to a machine that performed calculations.
1613
Claude Perrault is born September 25, 1613.
1614
John Napier illustrates and puts forward the idea of Logarithms.
1617
John Napier introduced a system called "Napiers Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting.
1617
Tito Burattini is born March 8, 1617.
1617
John Napier passes away April 4, 1617 (Age: 66-67)
1621
The circular slide rule is invented by William Oughtred.
1623
Blaise Pascal is born June 19, 1623.
1623
The first known workable mechanical calculating machine is invented by Germanys Wilhelm Schickard. The machine is based on the idea of Napier's Bones, mentioned earlier.
1625
Samuel Morland is born in 1625
1626
Francis Bacon passes away April 9, 1626 (Age:65)
1630
Henry Briggs passes away January 26, 1630 (Age: 68)
1630
Johannes Kepler passes away November 15, 1630 (Age:58)
1632
William Oughtred of Cambridge combines two Gunter rules to make a device that resembles today's slide rule.
1635
Wilhelm Schickard passes away October 24, 1635 (Age:43)
1642
Frances Blaise Pascal invents a machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry between digits.
1646
Gottfried Leibniz is born July 1, 1646.
1650
René Descartes passes away February 11, 1650 (Age: 53)
1662
Blaise Pascal passes away August 19, 1662 (Age: 39)
1671
Gottfried Leibniz introduces the Step Reckoner, a device that can multiply, divide, and evaluate square roots.
1679
Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates binary arithmetic, a discovery that shows every number can be represented by 0 and 1 only.
1681
Tito Livio Burattini passes away November 17, 1681 (Age: 64)
1688
Claude Perrault passes away in 1688 (Age: 75)
1695
Samuel Morland passes away December 30, 1695 (Age: 70)
Year
Event
1706
Benjamin Franklin is born January 17, 1706.
1721
Pierre Jaquet-Droz is born in 1721.
1724
Gabriel Fahrenheit proposes the Fahrenheit standard.
1725
An early form of punch cards begin to be used in textile looms.
1732
Richard Arkwright is born December 23, 1732.
1736
Johann Bishcoff is born February 20, 1736.
1739
Philipp Hahn is born November 25, 1739.
1743
Samuel Hopkins is born December 9, 1743.
1745
Alessandro Volta is born February 18, 1745.
1752
On June 10, 1752 Benjamin Franklin flies a kite that collects a charge after being struck by lightning.
1752
Joseph Jacquard is born July 7, 1752.
1753
Charles Stanhope is born August 3, 1753.
1765
Jacob Auch is born February 22, 1765.
1765
Joseph Niépce is born March 7, 1765.
1768
Jean Fourier is born March 21, 1768.
1774
The first telegraph is built.
1777
Thomas Fowler is born in 1977.
1777
Johann Gauss is born April 30, 1777.
1783
William Sturgeon is born May 22, 1783.
1785
Charles Thomas is born May 5, 1785.
1785
Georg Scheutz is born September 23, 1785.
1787
Semen Korsakov is born January 14, 1787.
1789
Georg Ohm is born March 16, 1789.
1790
Benjamin Franklin passes away April 17, 1790 (Age: 83)
1790
Philipp Hahn passes away May 2, 1790 (Age: 51)
1790
Samuel Hopkins receives the first United States patent July 31, 1790.
1791
Samuel Morse is born April 27, 1791.
1791
Michael Faraday is born September 22, 1791.
1791
Charles Babbage is born December 26, 1791.
1792
Claude Chappe invents a semaphore line, a method of communicating over long distances.
1792
Richard Arkwright passes away August 3, 1792 (Age: 59)
1797
Joseph Henry is born May 17, 1797.
Year
Event
1804
Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards.
1809
An early but crude telegraph type device is invented in 1809 by Samuel Soemmering.
1810
Hayyim Slonimski is born in 1810.
1811
Alexander Bain is born in 1811.
1811
Johann Bischoff passes away April 14, 1811 (Age:75)
1814
Izrael Staffel is born in 1814.
1815
Giovanni Caselli is born April 25, 1815.
1815
George Boole is born November 2, 1815.
1815
Ada Lovelace is born December 15, 1815.
1816
Werner Siemens is born December 13, 1816.
1816
Charles Stanhope passes away December 15, 1816 (Age: 63)
1818
Samuel Hopkins passes away in 1818.
1819
Christopher Sholes is born February 14, 1819.
1820
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "Arithometer", the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. The calculator could not only add but also subtract, multiply, and divide.
1821
Pafnuty Chebyshev is born May 16, 1821.
1822
In the early 1822 Charles Babbage purposed and begins developing the Difference Engine.
1823
Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius silicon (Si), which today is the basic component of IC's.
1825
The earliest known surviving photograph is taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1825 of a view of a courtyard from his window.
1827
Alessandro Volta passes away March 5, 1827 (Age: 82)
1827
Georg Simon Ohm introduces Ohm's law in the book Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet.
1828
Harrison Dyar becomes the first person in the United States to invent a Telegraph type device.
1830
Edweard Muybridge is born April 9, 1830.
1830
Jean Fourier passes away May 16, 1830 (Age: 62)
1831
Joseph Henry of Princeton invents the first working telegraph.
1832
Semen Korsakov uses punch cards for the first time to store and search for information.
1832
On October 21, 1832 Pavel Schilling becomes the first to transmit signals between two telegraphs in different rooms of his apartment.
1833
Joseph Niépce passes away July 5, 1833 (Age: 68)
1834
Joseph Jacquard passes away August 7, 1834 (Age: 82)
1835
Elisha Gray is born August 2, 1835.
1835
William Jevons is born September 1, 1835.
1837
Charles Babbage first purposed the Analytical Engine, which was the first computer to use punch cards as memory and a way to program the computer.
1838
Samuel Morse invents a code (later called Morse code) that used different numbers to represent the letters of the English alphabet and the ten digits.
1841
Edmund Barbour is born in 1841.
1842
Jacob Auch passes away March 20, 1842 (Age: 77)
1843
Thomas Fowler passes away March 31, 1843 (Age: 66)
1844
Samuel Morse dispatches the first telegraphic message over a line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore on May 24, 1844. The now famous message was: "What hath God wrought"
1845
In 1845, Izrael Staffel demonstrated the Staffel's calculator at the industrial exhibition in Warsaw.
1845
Wilhelm Rontgen is born March 27, 1845.
1845
Willgodt Odhner is born August 10, 1845.
1847
Thomas Edison is born February 11, 1847.
1847
Alexander Graham Bell is born March 3, 1847.
1847
Siemens is founded on October 12, 1847.
1849
John Ambrose Fleming is born November 29, 1849.
1849
George Grant is born December 21, 1849.
1850
Charles Flint is born January 24, 1850.
1850
Karl Braun is born June 6, 1850.
1850
William Sturgeon passes away December 4, 1850 (Age: 67)
1851
Western Union was founded.
1851
Emile Berliner is born May 20, 1851.
1852
Ada Lovelace passes away November 27, 1852 (Age: 36)
1853
Semen Korsakov passes away December 1, 1853 (Age: 65)
1854
Augustus DeMorgan and George Boole formalize a set of logical operations now known as DeMorgan transformations.
1854
George Fairchild is born May 6 , 1854.
1854
Georg Ohm passes away July 6, 1854 (Age: 65)
1854
George Eastman is born July 12, 1854.
1855
The Crane Company is founded.
1855
Johann Gauss passes away February 23, 1855 (Age: 77)
1856
Nikola Tesla is born July 10, 1856.
1857
Heinrich Hertz is born February 22, 1857.
1857
The phonautograph (phonograph) is patented March 25, 1857 by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. The device was capable of transcribing sound to a medium.
1858
Otto Steiger is born in 1858.
1858
Jagadish Bose is born November 30, 1858.
1859
The Elevator is patented on August 9, 1959.
1860
Herman Hollerith is born February 29, 1860.
1861
The first known permanent color photograph is taken of a Tartan Ribbon by the photographer Thomas Sutton. To achieve a color image he took a photo of the ribbon three times, each time with a different color, a method developed by James Clerk Maxwell.
1861
The first transcontinental telegraph line began operation October 24, 1861.
1862
Vilhelm Bjerknes is born March 14, 1862.
1862
Dorr Felt is born March 18, 1862.
1862
Philibert D'Ocagne is born March 26, 1862.
1864
George Boole passes away December 8, 1864 (Age: 49)
1866
The first successful Trans-Atlantic cable is laid from Ireland to Newfoundland.
1867
Michael Faraday passes away August 25, 1867 (Age: 75)
1868
Christopher Sholes is issued a patent on July 14, 1868 for a typewriter utilizing the QWERTY layout keyboard still used today.
1968
Paul Otlet is born August 23, 1868.
1870
Mitsubishi is founded.
1870
Charles Thomas passes away March 12, 1870 (Age: 84)
1871
Hubert Booth is born July 4, 1871.
1871
Charles Babbage passes away October 18, 1871 (Age: 79)
1872
Samuel Morse passes away April 2, 1872 (Age: 80)
1873
Georg Scheutz passes away May 22, 1873 (Age: 88)
1873
Lee Forest is born August 26, 1873.
1874
Thomas Watson is born February 17, 1874.
1874
Guglielmo Marconi is born April 25, 1874.
1875
Tanaka Seizo-sho is established in Japan and later merges with another company called shibaura Seisaku-sho to form Tokyo Shibarura Denki. Later this company's name is shortened to the company that we know today, Toshiba.
1875
William Eccles is born August 23, 1875.
1875
The company American Telephone and Telegraph Company that later became AT&T is founded.
1876
Scottish-Canadian-American Alexander Graham Bell is often credited as inventing the telephone makes the first call March 10, 1876.
1877
Alexander Bain passes away January 2, 1877 (Age: 65)
1877
The microphone is invented in the United States by Emile Berliner.
1877
Thomas Edison invents and announces on November 21, 1877 the first phonograph capable of recording and replaying sounds.
1878
Eadweard Muybridge's "The Horse In Motion" becomes the first motion picture.
1878
Joseph Henry passes away May 13, 1878 (Age: 80)
1879
Albert Einstein is born March 14, 1879.
1879
Thomas Edison demos incandescent electric light bulb that lasts 13 1/2 hours October 21, 1879.
1879
James Jacob Ritty patents the world's first cash register November 4, 1879.
1879
President Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the first president with a phone in the White House and gets the phone number "1."
1880
Thomas Edison receives patent #223,898 for the Electric Lamp January 27, 1880.
1880
ASME is founded.
1880
James Bryce is born September 5, 1880.
1881
Emanuel Goldberg is born on August 31, 1881.
1882
William Jevons passes away August 13, 1882 (Age: 46)
1882
The first commercial electric power station becomes operational on September 4, 1882.
1882
Fredrik Bull is born December 25, 1882.
1883
Edith Clarke is born February 10, 1883.
1883
American Thomas Edison discovers the Edison effect, where an electric current flows through a vacuum.
1883
Percy Ludgate is born August 2, 1883.
1884
Izrael Staffel passes away in 1884.
1885
American Telegraph and Telephone company (AT&T) is incorporated March 3,1885.
1886
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz proves that electricity is transmitted at the speed of light.
1886
James Rand is born November 18, 1886.
1887
Yamaha is founded October 12, 1887.
1888
Clair Lake is born in 1888.
1888
National Geographic Society is established on January 27, 1888.
1888
Nikola Tesla patents the rotating field motor May 1, 1888 and later sells the rights to George Westinghouse. This invention helps create and transmit AC power and today is still a method for generating and distributing AC power.
1888
William S. Burroughs patents a printing adding machine.
1888
Thomas Edison files for a patent for the Optical Phonograph (film camera) on October 17, 1888.
1888
Eastman Kodak is founded.
1888
John Loud gets patent for the ballpoint pen October 30, 1888.
1888
Friedrich Reintzer discovers liquid crystal.
1890
Henry Philips is born in 1890.
1890
Christopher Sholes passes away February 17, 1890 (Age: 71)
1891
Phillips is founded.
1892
Werner Siemens passes away December 6, 1892 (Age: 75)
1893
Leslie Comrie is born August 15, 1893.
1894
Heinrich Hertz passes away January 1, 1894 (Age: 36)
1894
August Dvorak is born May 5, 1894.
1894
Norbert Weiner is born November 26, 1894.
1894
Pafnuty Chebyshev passes away December 8, 1894 (Age:73)
1895
Nortel Networks is founded.
1895
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays November 8, 1895.
1896
Herman Hollerith starts the Tabulating Machine Company, the company later becomes the well-known computer company IBM (International Business machines).
1897
Gertrude Blanch is born.
1897
Emil Post is born February 11, 1897.
1897
German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope.
1897
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, a motion picture viewer on August 31, 1897.
1898
Alcatel is founded.
1898
Russell Ohl is born in January 1898.
1898
Nikola Tesla invents the remote control November 8, 1898.
1890
Vannevar Bush is born March 11, 1890.
1890
Herman Hollerith developed a method for machines to record and store information onto punch cards to be used for the US census. He later formed the company we know as IBM today.
1891
Giovanni Caselli passes away June 8, 1891.
1894
Paul Galvin is born June 27, 1895.
1897
Maxwell Newman is born February 7, 1897.
1899
Gustav Tauschek is born April 29, 1899.
1899
Nippon Electric Company is renamed to NEC Corporation July 17, 1899.
1899
AT&T acquires assets of American Bell, and becomes the parent company of Bell System.
1899
On September 13, 1899 Henry Bliss becomes the first North American pedestrian to be killed by an automobile.
1899
William D. Middlebrook patents the paper clip on November 9, 1899.
Year
Event
1900
Howard H. Aiken is born March 8, 1900.
1900
Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as spread spectrum.
1901
Allen DuMont is born January 29, 1901.
1901
The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code.
1901
Arthur Samuel is born in 1901.
1901
Elisha Gray passes away on January 21, 1901 (age 66)
1901
Hubert Cecil Booth receives a patent for the first powered vacuum cleaner August 30, 1901.
1901
Enrico Fermi is born September 29, 1901.
1901
Rudolf Hell is born December 19, 1901.
1902
Walter Brattain is born February 10, 1902.
1902
Louis Couffignal is born March 16, 1902.
1902
3M is founded.
1902
Wallace Eckert is born June 19, 1902.
1902
Mina Rees is born August 2, 1902.
1902
Laszlo Kozma is born November 28, 1902.
1903
Nikola Tesla patents electrical logic circuits called "gates" or "switches".
1903
Wilbur and Orville Wright both take the first flight December 17, 1903.
1903
John von Neumann is born December 28, 1903.
1903
John Vincent Atanasoff is born October 4, 1903.
1904
Samuel Caldwell is born January 15, 1904.
1904
George Stibitz is born April 20, 1904.
1904
Edweard Muybridge passes away May 8, 1904 (Age:74)
1904
Hayyim Slonimski passes away May 15, 1904 (Age:94)
1904
John Ambrose Fleming experiments with Edison's diode vacuum tubes and creates the first commercial diode vacuum tube.
1904
Lear Romec is founded.
1905
Derrick Lehmer is born February 23, 1905.
1905
Laszlo Kalmar is born March 27, 1905.
1905
Willgodt Odhner passes away September 15, 1905 (Age: 60)
1905
Thomas Flowers is born December 22, 1905.
1906
The IEC is founded in London England.
1906
Arnold I. Dumey is born in 1906.
1906
Chester Carlson is born February 8, 1906.
1906
Kurt Godel is born April 28, 1906.
1906
Reynold Johnson is born July 16, 1906.
1906
Xerox is founded.
1906
Philo Farnsworth is born August 19, 1906.
1906
Grace Hopper is born December 9, 1906.
1907
Paul Eisler is born in 1907.
1907
Lee De Frost files patent #879,532 on January 29, 1907 for the vacuum tube triode. This is later used as an electronic switch in the first electronic computer.
1907
Gordon Brown is born August 30, 1907.
1907
John Mauchly is born August 30, 1907.
1907
IBM files for its first U.S. patent, #998,631 October 11, 1907.
1908
John Bardeen is born May 23, 1908.
1908
Olivetti is founded on October 29, 1908.
1908
The film "A Visit To The Seaside" becomes the first film commercially produced in natural color in December of 1908.
1909
Ralph Palmer is born in 1909.
1909
Edmund Berkeley is born February 22, 1909.
1909
Geoffrey Dummer is born February 25, 1909.
1909
Antoni Kilinski is born October 20, 1909.
1909
The Bryant Chucking Grinder Co. is founded in 1909 by William Leroy Bryant.
1910
William Shockley is born February 13, 1910.
1910
Konrad Zuse is born June 22, 1910.
1910
Hitachi is founded.
1910
William Higinbotham is born October 25, 1910.
1910
Henry Babbage, Charles Babbage's youngest son completes a portion of the Analytical Engine and was able to perform basic calculations.
1911
Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov is born in 1911.
1911
Cuthbert Hurd is born April 5, 1911.
1911
The company now known as IBM is founded June 16, 1911 in the state of New York as the Computing - Tabulating - Recording Company (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company.
1911
Frederic Williams is born June 26, 1911.
1911
Louis Ridenour is born June 27, 1911.
1911
IBM is granted its first patent #998,631 July 25, 1911.
1911
Jan Rajchman is born August 10, 1911.
1911
Allen Coombs is born October 23, 1911.
1912
Steven Coons is born March 7, 1912.
1912
Alan Turing is born June 23, 1912.
1912
Helmut Schreyer is born July 4, 1912.
1912
David Packard is born September 7, 1912.
1912
G. N. Lewis begins work on the lithium battery.
1912
Oliver Standingford is born October 9, 1912.
1913
Julian Bigelow is born in 1913.
1913
Stephen Dunwell is born April 3, 1913.
1913
William Hewlett is born May 20, 1913.
1913
Maurice Wilkes is born June 26, 1913.
1913
Herman Goldstine is born September 13, 1913.
1913
Robert Adler is born December 4, 1913.
1914
Thomas Watson, Jr. is born January 14, 1914.
1914
I. Bernard Cohen is born March 1, 1914.
1914
Paul Rand is born August 15, 1914.
1914
Cyril Cleverdon is born September 9, 1914.
1914
George Dantzig is born November 8, 1914.
1915
Joseph Licklider is born March 11, 1915.
1915
Richard Hamming is born February 11, 1915.
1915
The first telephone call is made across the continent.
1915
Borje Langefors is born May 21, 1915.
1915
Nicholas Metropolis is born June 11, 1915.
1915
John Tukey is born June 16, 1915.
1915
Arthur Walter Burks is born October 13, 1915.
1916
Harry Huskey is born January 19, 1916.
1916
Claude Shannon is born April 30, 1916.
1916
Herbert Simon is born June 15, 1916.
1916
Morgan Sparks is born July 6, 1916.
1916
Petro Vlahos is born August 20, 1916.
1916
The Curtiss Wright company is founded.
1916
Christopher Strachey is born November 16, 1916.
1917
Nikon is founded.
1917
Ralph Meagher is born in 1917.
1917
Ralph Slutz is born in 1917.
1917
Winifred Asprey is born April 8, 1917.
1917
George Grant passes away August 16, 1917 (Age: 68)
1917
Hugh Ross is born August 31, 1917.
1917
On September 9, 1917 one of the earliest records of OMG (Oh! My God!) is used by British Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher when writing to Winston Churchill in a 1917 correspondence.
1917
Robert Fano is born November 11, 1917.
1917
Arthur C. Clark is born December 16, 1917.
1918
Wen Chow is born in 1918.
1918
Richard Canning is born in 1918.
1918
Alexander L'vovich Brudno is born January 10, 1918.
1918
Andrew Booth is born February 11, 1918.
1918
Panasonic is founded March 18, 1918.
1918
William Eccles and F.W. Jordan build the world's first flip-flop.
1918
Clifford Berry is born April 19, 1918.
1918
Karl Braun passes away April 20, 1918 (Age: 67)
1918
Bashir Rameyev is born May 1, 1918.
1918
Richard Feynman is born May 11, 1918.
1918
Kurt Lehovec is born June 12, 1918.
1918
Jay Forrester is born July 14, 1918.
1918
Sidney Harman is born August 4, 1918.
1918
Herbert Grosch is born September 13, 1918.
1918
Hermann Zapf is born November 8, 1918.
1918
Klaus Samelson is born December 21, 1918.
1919
Stanley Frankel is born in 1919.
1919
Nathan Rochester is born January 14, 1919.
1919
Russel Ackoff is born February 12, 1919.
1919
Trevor Pearcey is born March 5, 1919.
1919
Andrew F. Kay is born March 22, 1919.
1919
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert, Jr. is born April 9, 1919.
1919
Harlan Mills is born May 14, 1919.
1919
Jeffrey Chu is born July 14, 1919.
1919
John Pinkerton is born August 2, 1919.
1919
James Wilkinson is born September 27, 1919.
1919
Olympus is established on October 12, 1919 by Takeshi Yamashita.
1920
Niels Bech is born in 1920.
1920
Heinz Zemanek is born January 1, 1920.
1920
Isaac Asimov is born January 2, 1920.
1920
An Wang is born February 7, 1920.
1920
Bob Bemer is born February 8, 1920.
1920
James Pomerene is born June 22, 1920.
1920
First radio broadcasting begins in United States, Pittsburgh, PA.
1920
Kenneth Iverson is born December 17, 1920.
1921
Robert Prim is born in 1921.
1921
Lotfali Zadeh is born February 4, 1921.
1921
Kathleen Antonelli is born February 12, 1921.
1921
Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas is born May 21, 1921.
1921
Robert Everett is born June 26, 1921.
1921
Forrest Parry is born July 4, 1921.
1921
John Bennet is born July 31, 1921.
1921
Czech playwright Karel Capek coins the term "robot" in the 1921 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots).
1921
The first Radio Shack store is opened.
1921
Gerald Estrin is born September 9, 1921.
1922
MPAA is established.
1922
Charles Hamblin is born in 1922.
1922
Georgy Adelson-Velsky is born January 8, 1922.
1922
Saul Rosen is born February 8, 1922.
1922
Ralph Baer is born March 8, 1922.
1922
Alan Perlis is born April 1, 1922.
1922
Keith Uncapher is born April 1, 1922.
1922
Alexander Graham Bell passes away August 2, 1922 (Age: 75)
1921
Tom Kilburn is born August 11, 1921.
1922
Percy Ludgate passes away October 16, 1922 (Age: 38)
1922
Gene Amdahl is born November 16, 1922.
1923
Otto Steiger passes away in 1923.
1923
Corrado Böhm is born in 1923.
1923
Joseph Weizenbaum is born January 8, 1923.
1923
Wilhelm Rontgen passes away February 10, 1923.
1923
Herman Lukoff is born May 2, 1923.
1923
Eugene Kleiner is born May 12, 1923.
1923
Edgar Codd is born August 23, 1923.
1923
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the Integrated Circuit, handheld calculator, and thermal printer is born November 8, 1923.
1923
Donald Michie is born November 11, 1923.
1923
Peter Elias is born November 23, 1923.
1924
The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company is renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924.
1924
David Evans is born February 24, 1924.
1924
Enid Mumford is born March 6, 1924.
1924
George Pake is born April 1, 1924.
1924
Donald Davies is born June 7, 1924.
1924
CATV and cable broadcasting begins being used in some European cities.
1924
Friedrich Bauer is born June 10, 1924.
1924
Gerrot Blaauw is born July 17, 1924.
1924
Max Palevsky is born July 24, 1924.
1924
Leo Fantl is born August 8, 1924.
1924
Georgii Lopato is born August 23, 1924.
1924
Jean Hoerni is born September 26, 1924.
1924
Paul DeMaine is born October 11, 1924.
1924
John Backus is born December 3, 1924.
1924
Charles Bachman is born December 11, 1924.
1924
Jean Bartik is born December 27, 1924.
1924
George Fairchild passes away on December 31, 1924 (Age: 71)
1925
Edmund Barbour passes away in 1925 (Age: 84)
1925
John Opel is born January 5, 1925.
1925
Douglas Engelbart is born January 30, 1925.
1925
Nikolay Brusentsov was born February 7, 1925.
1925
Robert Barton is born February 13, 1925.
1925
Heinz Nixdor is born April 9, 1925.
1925
Mark Pinsker is born April 24, 1925.
1925
John Cocke is born May 30, 1925.
1925
Fredrik Bull passes away June 7, 1925 (Age: 43)
1925
David Huffman is born August 9, 1925.
1925
Seymour Cray is born September 28, 1925.
1926
Ken Olsen is born February 20, 1926.
1926
Stanley Gill is born March 26, 1926.
1926
Packard Bell is originally founded.
1926
Paul Baran is born April 29, 1926.
1926
Oliver Selfridge is born May 10, 1926.
1926
John Kemeny is born May 31, 1926.
1926
John Diebold is born June 8, 1926.
1926
Fernando Corbató is born July 1, 1926.
1926
Carl Petri is born July 12, 1926.
1926
The first patent for the semiconductor transistor is created.
1926
Arthur Rock is born August 19, 1926.
1926
Kristen Nygaard is born August 27, 1926.
1926
Willem Poel is born December 2, 1926.
1927
Wesley Clark is born in 1927.
1927
David Wheeler is born February 9, 1927.
1927
Gerard Salton is born March 8, 1927.
1927
Allen Newell is born March 19, 1927.
1927
Dudley Buck is born April 25, 1927.
1927
Glen Culler is born July 7, 1927.
1927
Theodore Maiman is born July 11, 1927.
1927
Marvin Minsky is born August 9, 1927.
1927
Bob Evans is born August 19, 1927.
1927
John McCarthy is born September 4, 1927.
1927
Philo Taylor Farnsworth becomes the first person to successfully transmit a TV signal on September 7, 1927.
1927
Robert Noyce is born December 12, 1927.
1928
Jean Sammet is born in 1928.
1928
Thomas Kurtz is born February 22, 1928.
1928
Seymour Papert is born February 29, 1928.
1928
John Nash is born June 13, 1928.
1928
Juris Hartmanis is born July 5, 1928.
1928
The Galvin Manufacturing Corporation begins on September 25, 1928, the company will later be known as Motorola.
1928
Bernard Galler is born October 3, 1928.
1928
Peter Naur is born October 25, 1928.
1928
Noam Chomsky is born December 7, 1928
1928
Jack Tramiel is born December 13, 1928
1928
Martin Cooper is born December 26, 1928.
1929
Harlan Anderson is born in 1929.
1929
Robert Lansdown is born January 2, 1929.
1929
Gordon Moore is born January 3, 1929.
1929
Emile Berliner passes away August 3, 1929 (Age: 78)
1929
Herman Hollerith passes away November 17, 1929.
1929
Douglas Ross is born December 21, 1929.
1930
Einar Stefferud is born January 11, 1930.
1930
Geophysical Service Incorporated is founded. The company will later become Texas Instruments.
1930
Martin Goetz is born April 22, 1930.
1930
Edsger Dijkstra is born May 11, 1930.
1930
Peter Landin is born June 5, 1930.
1930
Henry Perot is born June 27, 1930.
1930
Daniel McCracken is born July 23, 1930.
1930
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation Auto radios begin to be sold as an accessory for the automobile. Paul Galvin coins the name Motorola for the company's new products, linking the ideas of motion and radio.
1930
Dorr Felt passes away August 7, 1930.
1930
Alan F. Shugart is born September 27, 1930.
1930
Citizen is founded.
1931
James Russell is born in 1931.
1931
Valentin Turchin is born in 1931.
1931
Fletcher Jones is born January 22, 1931.
1931
Eiichi Goto is born January 26, 1931.
1931
Anthony (Tony) Edgar Sale is born January 30, 1931.
1931
Elizabeth Feinler is born March 2, 1931.
1931
Andrei Ershov is born April 19, 1931.
1931
Frederick Brooks is born April 19, 1931.
1931
Nobuo Mii is born July 4, 1931.
1931
Morris Chang is born July 10, 1931.
1931
Michael Rabin is born September 1, 1931.
1931
Ole-Johan Dahl is born October 12, 1931.
1931
Thomas Edison passes away October 18, 1931.
1931
Jacob Ziv is born November 27, 1931.
1932
Robert Taylor is born in 1932.
1932
William Millard is born in 1932.
1932
George Eastman passes away March 14, 1932 (Age:77)
1932
Norman Abramson was born April 1, 1932.
1932
Solomon Golomb is born May 30, 1932.
1932
Jay Glenn Miner is born May 31, 1932.
1932
Frances Allen is born August 4, 1932.
1932
Gustav Tauschek develops drum memory.
1932
ROM-Type storage media is introduced.
1932
Robert H. Dennard is born September 5, 1932.
1932
Dana Scott is born October 11, 1932.
1932
Jorma Rissanen is born October 20, 1932.
1933
Canon is established.
1933
Stephanie Shirley is born September 16, 1933.
1933
Boris Babayan is born December 20, 1933.
1934
Ronald Stamper is born in 1934.
1934
Seymour Rubinstein is born in 1934.
1934
Edward Fredkin is born January 1, 1934.
1934
Donald Bitzer is born January 1, 1934.
1934
Charles Hoare is born January 11, 1934
1934
Robin Milner is born January 13, 1934.
1934
Niklaus Wirth is born February 15, 1934.
1934
Charles Flint passes away February 26, 1934.
1934
Ronald Wayne is born May 7, 1934.
1934
Ralph Griswold is born May 19, 1934
1934
Robert Moog is born May 23, 1934.
1934
Leonard Kleinrock is born June 13, 1934.
1934
Gordon Bell is born August 19, 1934.
1934
The FCC is established.
1934
The US Communication Act goes into place.
1934
Max Hopper is born November 4, 1934.
1934
Carl Sagan is born November 9, 1934.
1935
Vladimir Levenshtein is born in 1935.
1935
Barry Boehm is born in 1935.
1935
The Polygraph machine aka lie detector is used for the first time.
1932
Richard Karp is born January 3, 1935.
1935
Roger Needham is born February 9, 1935.
1935
Charles Molnar is born March 14, 1935.
1935
Jack Wolf is born March 14, 1935.
1935
Joshua Lederberg is born May 23, 1935.
1935
Fujitsu is established June 20, 1935.
1935
Karen Jones is born August 26, 1935.
1935
TDK is founded on December 7, 1935.
1936
Edward Feigenbaum is born January 20, 1936.
1936
Germany's Konrad Zuse creates the Z1, one of the first binary digital computers and a machine that could be controlled through a punch tape.
1936
While working on a radio, Paul Eisler invents the Printed Circuit Board (PCB).
1936
Abraham Lempel is born February 10, 1936.
1936
Dvorak receives a patent for the Dvorak keyboard May 12, 1936.
1936
Robert Floyd is born June 8, 1936.
1936
Richard Stearns is born July 5, 1936.
1936
Henry F. Phillips receives patent for the Phillips screw and screwdriver July 7, 1936.
1936
Andrew Grove is born September 2, 1936.
1936
Jerry Sanders is born September 12, 1936.
1936
Alan Turing develops the Turing Machine.
1937
Larry Roberts is born in 1937.
1937
Charles Peddle is born in 1937.
1937
Steve Russell is born in 1937.
1937
Igor Aleksander is born in 1937
1937
Harold Lawson is born in 1937.
1937
Iowa State College's John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry begin work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer). Considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer.
1937
Dabbala Reddy is born June 13, 1937.
1937
Seiko Instruments is founded.
1937
Ted Nelson is born June 17, 1937.
1937
Philip Estridge is born June 23, 1937.
1937
Guglielmo Marconi passes away July 20, 1937 (Age: 63)
1937
Alec Reeves develops PCM.
1937
Patrick McGovern is born August 11, 1937.
1937
Marcian Hoff is born October 28, 1937.
1937
Jagadish Bose passes away November 23, 1937 (Age:78)
1938
Dana Ulery is born in 1938.
1938
Charles Moore is born in 1938.
1938
Gary Starkweather is born in 1938.
1938
Philibert D'Ocagne passes away in 1938.
1938
Molex is founded.
1938
Donald Knuth is born January 10, 1938.
1938
Vivitar is founded.
1938
Lynn Conway is born January 10, 1938.
1938
Samsung is founded.
1938
Manuel Blum is born April 26, 1938.
1938
Ivan Sutherland is born May 16, 1938.
1938
Thomas Cover is born August 7, 1938.
1938
The company now known as Hewlett Packard creates its first product the HP 200A.
1938
Chester Carlson produces first electrophotographic image October 22, 1938, which later becomes the Xerox machine.
1938
Orson Wells' and Houseman broadcast H.G. Welles War of the Worlds on the airways October 30th as a Halloween spoof.
1938
Per Hansen is born November 13, 1938.
1938
BBC creates the first science fiction television program.
1938
Stewart Brand is born December 14, 1938.
1938
Bob Kahn is born December 23, 1938.
1939
Paul Cress is born in 1939.
1939
Adam Osborne is born March 6, 1939.
1939
Dov Frohman is born March 28, 1939.
1939
John Scully is born April 6, 1939.
1939
Rudolf Bayer is born May 7, 1939.
1939
Anatoliy O. Morozov is born May 9, 1939.
1939
Peter Grunberg is born May 18, 1939.
1939
George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. This device provides a foundation for digital computers.
1939
The first Radio Shack catalog is published.
1939
Craig Barrett is born August 29, 1939.
1939
Charles Geschke is born September 11, 1939.
1939
John Hopcroft is born October 7, 1939.
1939
Neil Sloane is born October 10, 1939.
1939
Iowa State College's John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create a prototype of the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer).
1939
The companies Tanaka Seisakusho and Hakunetsusha merge to become the new company we now know as Toshiba.
1939
Hewlett Packard is founded by William Hewlett and David Packard. The name is decided on the flip of a coin toss.
1939
Barbara Liskov is born November 7, 1939.
1939
Stephen Cook is born December 14, 1939.
1940
The first handheld two-way radio called the "Handy Talkie" is created by Motorola for the U.S. Army Signal Control.
1940
Gottfried Ungerboeck is born March 15, 1940.
1940
Jean Ichbiah is born March 25, 1940.
1940
Alan Kay is born May 17, 1940.
1940
Clive Sinclair is born July 3, 1940
1940
Tom DeMarco is born August 20, 1940.
1940
John Warnock is born October 6, 1940.
1940
Gerald Lawson is born December 1, 1940.
1941
Peter Samson is born in 1941.
1941
Ray Tomlinson is born in 1941.
1941
William Lowe is born January 15, 1941.
1941
Alain Colmerauer is born in January 24, 1941.
1941
Leslie Lamport is born February 7, 1941.
1941
David Parnas is born February 10, 1941.
1941
Amir Pnueli is born April 22, 1941.
1941
German Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3, a fully program-operational calculating machine. The computer is publically introduced in Berlin May 12, 1941.
1941
August-Wilhelm Scheer is born July 27, 1941.
1941
Victor Hayes is born July 31, 1941.
1941
Dennis Ritchie is born September 9, 1941.
1941
Henry Edward Roberts is born September 13, 1941.
1941
Chester Carlson gets patent for electric photography more commonly known today as photocopying October 6, 1941.
1941
Alan Kotok is born November 9, 1941.
1941
Federico Faggin is born December 1, 1941.
1941
Robert Miner is born December 23, 1941.
1942
Brian Kernighan is born in 1942.
1942
Edward Tufte is born in 1942.
1942
Steven Hawking is born January 8, 1942.
1942
Armas Markkula is born February 11, 1942.
1942
Louis Gerstner is born March 1, 1942.
1942
David Cutler is born March 13, 1942.
1942
John Atanasoff successfully tests the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) which was the first computer to use regenerative capacitor drum memory.
1942
Gary Kildall is born May 19, 1942.
1942
James Foley is born July 20, 1942.
1942
Enrico Fermi designs and creates the world's first Nuclear Reactor December 2, 1942.
1943
John Draper is born in 1943.
1943
Bill Gosper is born in 1943.
1943
James Goodnight is born January 6, 1943.
1943
Nikola Tesla passes away January 7, 1943.
1943
Nolan Bushnell is born February 5, 1943.
1943
Charles Thacker is born February 26, 1943.
1943
Jef Raskin is born March 9, 1943.
1943
Peter Karmanos is born March 11, 1943
1943
David S. Morse is born April 15, 1943.
1943
Fujio Masuoka is born May 8, 1943.
1943
Hydro-Aire is founded.
1943
Vint Cerf is born June 23, 1943.
1943
Bill Moggridge is born June 25, 1943.
1943
Masatoshi Shima is born August 22, 1943.
1943
Jonathan Postel is born October 6, 1943.
1943
Michael Stonebraker is born October 11, 1943.
1943
Peter Norton is born November 14, 1943.
1943
The Colossus, the first electric programmable computer developed by Tommy Flowers is first demonstrated in December 1943.
1943
Nicholas Negroponte is born December 1, 1943
1943
Butler Lampson is born December 23, 1943.
1943
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer by most is considered to be the first electronic computer.
1943
Dan Noble with Motorola designs a "Walkie Talkie" the first portable FM two-way radio that a backpack version that weighed 35 pounds.
1944
Donald Chamberlin is born in 1944.
1944
Steven Bourne is born January 7, 1944.
1944
James Gray is born January 12, 1944.
1944
Hasso Plattner is born January 21, 1944.
1944
Andrew Tanenbaum is born March 16, 1944.
1944
James Clark is born March 23, 1944.
1944
David Clark is born April 7, 1944.
1944
Edward Yourdon is born April 30, 1944.
1944
Bailey Diffie is born June 5, 1944.
1944
The Harvard Mark I computer is officially presented at Harvard University on August 7, 1944. The relay-based Harvard-IBM MARK I a large programmable-controlled calculating machine provides vital calculations for the U.S. Navy. Grace Hopper becomes its programmer.
1944
Larry Ellison is born August 17, 1944.
1944
The first binary, and partially programmable computer, Colossus, was created at Bletchley Park.
1944
Steve Crocker is born October 15, 1944.
1944
Abhay Bhushan is born November 23, 1944.
1944
Paul Otlet passes away December 10, 1944 (Age: 76)
1944
Richard Greenblatt is born December 25, 1944.
1945
Joseph Canion is born January 19, 1945.
1945
Patent is filed for the Harvard Mark I digital computer on February 8, 1945.
1945
Gustav Tauschek passes away February 14, 1945 (Age: 48)
1945
Edwin Catmull is born March 31, 1945.
1945
John Ambrose Fleming passes away April 18, 1945.
1945
Lee Felsenstein is born in April 27, 1945.
1945
Adele Goldberg is born July 7, 1945.
1945
William Inmon is born July 20, 1945.
1945
Azim Premji is born July 24, 1945.
1945
Edmund Clarke is born July 27, 1945.
1945
The Von Neumann Architecture and a description of a general purpose electronic digital computer with a stored programs is introduced in John von Neumann's report of the EDVAC.
1945
The term bug as computer bug was termed by Grace Hopper when programming the MARK II.
1945
John McAfee is born September 18, 1945.
1945
Martin Hellman is born October 2, 1945.
1945
The first ballpoint pen goes on sale in New York for $12.50 on October 30, 1945.
1945
Herbert Freeman is born December 13, 1945.
1945
Hector de Jesus Ruiz is born December 25, 1945.
1945
Leonard Adleman is born December 31, 1945.
1946
James Thomas is born March 26, 1946.
1946
Freddie Williams applies for a patent on his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device on December 11, 1946. The device that later became known as the Williams tube or more appropriately the Williams-Kilburn tube. The tube stored only stored 128 40-bit words.
1946
Konrad Zuse writes the first algorithmic programming language called 'Plankalkül'.
1946
ENIAC computer completed.
1946
Tektronix is founded.
1946
Brooklyn New York's Flatbush National Bank becomes the first bank to issue a credit card in 1946.
1946
Robert Metcalfe is born April 7, 1946.
1946
Robert Stein is born April 20, 1946.
1946
Sony is founded May 7, 1946.
1946
Jan Rajchman begins his work on developing the Selectron tube that was capable of storing 256 bits. Because of the popularity of magnetic core memory at the time, the Selectron tube was never put into mass production.
1946
N. R. Narayana Murthy is born August 20, 1946.
1946
Gordon Eubanks is born November 7, 1946.
1946
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is born December 24, 1946.
1947
Paul Brainerd is born in 1947.
1947
Sandra Kurtzig is born in 1947.
1947
Ronald Rivest is born in 1947.
1947
1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. file patent #2,455,992 describing one of the first computer games played on a CRT January 25, 1947.
1947
Robert Cailliau is born January 26, 1947.
1947
P.L. Porter is founded.
1947
Michael Hart is born March 8, 1947.
1947
Walter Mossberg is born March 27, 1947.
1947
Freddie Williams memory system known as the Williams-Kilburn tube is now in working order.
1947
Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting on June 24, 1947.
1947
Ben Shneiderman is born August 21, 1947.
1947
Edward Shortliffe is born August 28, 1947.
1947
Jay Forrester and other researchers comes up with the idea of using magnetic-core memory in the Whirlwind computer.
1947
ISO is founded.
1947
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is established September 18, 1947.
1947
John Barlow is born October 3, 1947.
1947
Star Micronics is founded.
1947
David Patterson is born November 16, 1947.
1947
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the first transistor at the Bell Laboratories on December 23, 1947.
1947
Richard Crandall is born December 29, 1947.
1948
Al Alcorn is January 1, 1948.
1948
IBM builds the SSEC (Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator). The computer contains 12,000 tubes.
1948
Raymond Kurzweil is born February 12, 1948.
1948
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley patent the first transistor.
1948
Andrew Donald Booth creates magnetic drum memory, which is two inches long and two inches wide and capable of holding 10 bits per inch.
1948
William Gibson is born March 17, 1948.
1948
Scott Fahlman is born March 21, 1948.
1948
Lawrence Rowe is born April 11, 1948.
1948
Robert Tarjan is born April 30, 1948.
1948
Brian Eno is born May 15, 1948.
1948
The 604 multiplying punch, based upon the vacuum tube technology, is produced by IBM.
1948
Nakamichi is founded.
1948
Carol Bartz is born August 29, 1948.
1948
Mikhail Donskoy is born September 9, 1948.
1948
Charles Simonyi is born in September 10, 1948
1948
ALPS is established November 1, 1948.
1948
Leonid Levin is born November 2, 1948.
1948
Paul Mockapetris is born November 18, 1948.
1948
The television begins to divert radio audiences.
1949
David Bradley is born in 1949.
1949
James Bryce passes away in 1949.
1949
Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1949
The concept of a computer program capable of reproducing itself was first mentioned by John von Neumann in his 1949 "Theory of self-reproducing automata" essay.
1949
The Harvard-MARK III, the first of the MARK machines to use an internally stored program and indirect addressing, goes into operations again under the direction of Howard Aiken.
1949
The first computer company, Electronic Controls Company is founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer.
1949
Robert Cohn is born in April 1949.
1949
John Thomson is born April 24, 1949.
1949
The EDSAC performs its first calculation on May 6, 1949.
1949
Howard Cunningham is born May 26, 1949.
1949
Robert Frankston is born June 14, 1949.
1949
Alain Glavieux is born July 4, 1949.
1949
John Chambers is born August 23, 1949.
1949
John Markoff is born October 24, 1949.
1949
Popular Mechanics predicts: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
1949
The small-scale electronic machine (SSEM) is fully operational at Manchester University.
1949
The Australian computer CSIRAC is first ran.
1950
John Walker is born in 1950.
1950
Dennis Hayes is born in 1950
1950
Bertrand Meyer is born in 1950.
1950
Dave Boggs is born in 1950.
1950
Douglas Lenat is born in 1950.
1950
The United States Government receives the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101. This computer is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory.
1950
The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
1950
Wayne Pickette is born April 21, 1950.
1950
Murali Chemuturi is born June 28, 1950.
1950
Konrad Zuse completes and sells the Z4 on July 12, 1950, becoming the first commercial computer.
1950
Richard Branson is born July 18, 1950.
1950
Jon Hall is born August 7, 1950.
1950
Steve Wozniak is born August 11, 1950.
1950
Alan Turing publishes his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence in October. This paper helps create the Turing Test.
1950
Paul Otellini is born October 12, 1950.
1950
The NICAD battery begins its commercial use.
1950
Mitchell Kapor is born November 1, 1950.
1950
Leslie Comrie passes away December 11, 1950 (Age:57)
1950
Bjarne Stroustrup is born December 30, 1950.
1951
Radia Perlman is born in 1951.
1951
William Stevens is born February 5, 1951.
1951
The first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) is completed by T. Raymond Thompson, John Simmons and their team at Lyons Co.
1951
The First Ferranti MARK 1 or Manchester Electronic Computer is delivered to the Manchester University in February 1951.
1951
The first ISO is published with the title, "Standard reference temperature for industrial length measurement."
1951
UNIVAC I was introduced.
1951
The EDVAC begins performing basic tasks.
1951
Dean Kamen is born April 5, 1951.
1951
Vilhelm Bjerknes passes away April 9, 1951 (Age: 89)
1951
Jay Forrester applies for a patent for magnetic-core memory, an early type of random access memory (RAM) May 11, 1951.
1951
The Nixie tube is first introduced.
1951
Grace Hopper develops A-0, the first Arithmetic language.
1951
John Doerr is born June 29, 1951.
1951
Dan Bricklin is born July 16, 1951.
1951
Samuel Palmisano is born July 30, 1951.
1951
Sanyo is founded in 1951.
1951
Bill Atkinson is born in 1951.
1951
Geophysical Service Incorporated is renamed to Texas Instruments in 1951.
1952
Fred Baker is born in 1952.
1952
Complaint is filed against IBM for Monopolistic practices on January 1952.
1952
David Reed is born January 31, 1952.
1952
Ralph Merkle is born February 2, 1952.
1952
Sugata Mitra is born February 12, 1952.
1952
Bernhard Thalheim is born March 10, 1952.
1952
John Dvorak is born April 5, 1952.
1952
Alan Cooper is born June 3, 1952.
1952
Adi Shamir is born July 6, 1952.
1952
Geoffrey Dummer a British radar engineer introduces the concept of the integrated circuit at a tech conference in the United States.
1952
Fairly reliable working magnetic drum memories for use in computers begin to be sold by Andrew Donald Booth and his father.
1952
RIAA is established.
1952
Leonid Khachiyan is born May 3, 1952.
1952
Kevin Kelly is born August 14, 1952.
1952
The first ASR device was used to recognize single digits spoken by a user (it was not computer driven).
1952
Alexander Sandy Douglas created the first graphical computer game of Tic-Tac-Toe on an EDSAC known as "OXO."
1952
The National Security Agency (NSA) is formed November 4, 1952.
1952
Shigeru Miyamoto is born November 16, 1952.
1952
Thomas Siebel is born November 20, 1952.
1952
Craig Newmark is born December 6, 1952
1953
David Crane is born in 1953.
1953
David Deutsch is born in 1953.
1953
James Martin is born in 1953.
1953
IBM introduces the 701 to the public April 7, 1953. The 701 is IBM's first electric computer and first mass produced computer.
1953
The UNIVAC predicts the presidential election during a televised news broadcast.
1953
A magnetic memory smaller and faster than existing vacuum tube memories is built at MIT.
1953
Paul Allen is born January 21, 1953.
1953
Craig Reynolds is born March 15, 1953.
1953
Dr. Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon create the Harman Kardon company.
1953
Richard Stallman is born March 16, 1953.
1953
Andy Hertzfeld is born April 6, 1953.
1953
In July 1953 a core memory expansion is added to the ENIAC.
1953
TEAC is formed on August 29, 1953.
1953
The IBM 701 becomes available to the scientific community. A total of 19 are produced and sold.
1953
Florian Brody is born October 31, 1953.
1953
The Colgate Comedy Hour on N.B.C. becomes the first TV show to broadcast in color on November 22, 1953.
1954
Kevin Warwick is born February 9, 1954.
1954
Sidney Meier is born February 24, 1954.
1954
IBM produces and markets the IBM 650. More than 1,800 of these computers are sold in an eight-year span, with 120 installations in the first year.
1954
Daniel Kottke is born April 4, 1954.
1954
Brother is founded April 21, 1954.
1954
Tim O'Reilly is born June 6, 1954.
1954
Alan Turing passes away June 7, 1954.
1954
Raymond Noorda is born June 19, 1954.
1954
Karlheinz Brandenburg is born June 20, 1954.
1954
The USSR's Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant opens June 27, 1954 and becomes the first Nuclear power plant to generate electricity.
1954
Robert Enderle is born July 27, 1954.
1954
The first version of FORTRAN (formula translator) is published by IBM.
1954
Texas Instruments announces the start of commercial production of silicon transistors.
1954
IBM becomes the first company to translate Russian into English using a computer.
1954
Guy Kawasaki is born August 30, 1954.
1954
Henry Samueli is born September 20, 1954.
1954
Larry Wall is born September 27, 1954.
1954
CERN is established on September 29, 1954.
1954
Harold Prewitt is born October 1, 1954.
1954
Guy Steele is born October 2, 1954.
1954
IBM introduces its first calculating machine that uses solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes October 7, 1954.
1954
John Ousterhout is born October 15, 1954.
1954
Commodore is founded.
1954
The first commercially produced transistor radio, the Regency TR-1 is announced October 18, 1954.
1954
Ken Williams is born October 30, 1954,
1954
Mitsumi is founded.
1954
Merrimac Industries is founded.
1954
Scott McNealy is born November 3, 1954.
1954
William Joy is born November 8, 1954.
1954
Enrico Fermi passes away November 28, 1954.
1955
Sandra Lerner is born in 1955.
1955
Tom Jennings is born in 1955.
1955
Hubert Booth passes away January 14, 1955.
1955
John Gustafson is born January 19, 1955.
1955
Toru Iwatani is born January 25, 1955.
1955
Steve Jobs is born February 24, 1955.
1955
Konrad Zuse completes the Z22, the seventh computer model and first computer that used magnetic storage memory.
1955
Grady Booch is born February 27, 1955.
1955
MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine on March 8, 1955, a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics.
1955
Steve Gibson is born March 26, 1955.
1955
Thomas Watson, IBM's president is featured on the front of Time Magazine March 28, 1955.
1955
Albert Einstein passes away on April 18, 1955 (Age: 76)
1955
Eric Schmidt is born April 27, 1955.
1955
John McCarthy coins the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 1955 at Dartmouth College.
1955
Dave Winer is born May 2, 1955.
1955
An Wang is issued U.S. patent #2,708,722 on May 17, 1955 for then invention of the magnetic "Pulse Transfer Controlling Device", which made made magnetic core memory a reality.
1955
James Gosling is born May 19, 1955.
1955
Tim Bernes-Lee is born June 8, 1955.
1955
Dave Raggett is born June 8, 1955.
1955
Tim Bray is born June 21, 1955.
1955
Donna Dubinsky is born July 4, 1955.
1955
Thomas Lane is born September 18, 1955.
1955
Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim is born September 30, 1955.
1955
William (Bill) H. Gates is born October 28, 1955.
1955
IBM introduces the first IBM 702.
1955
Ray Ozzie is born November 20, 1955.
1955
Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. Transistors are faster, smaller and create less heat than traditional vacuum tubs, making these computers more reliable and efficient.
1955
The ENIAC is turned off for the last time. Its estimated to have done more arithmetic than the entire human race had done prior to 1945.
1956
Calcomp is founded.
1956
Guido van Rossum is born January 31, 1956.
1956
Polyflon is founded.
1956
Mark McCahill is born February 7, 1956.
1956
John von Neumann is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Dwight Eisenhower on February 15, 1956.
1956
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov is born on March 14, 1956.
1956
Steve Ballmer is born March 24, 1956.
1956
Jim Ellis is born May 6, 1956.
1956
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) and first transistorized computer is demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1956
Tim Paterson is born June 1, 1956.
1956
Thomas Watson passes away June 19, 1956 (Age: 82)
1956
Mark Crispin is born July 19, 1956.
1956
Dr. Robert Adler of Zenith invents the first cordless TV remote control in 1956.
1956
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley are awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the transistor.
1956
On September 13, 1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC is the first computer to be shipped with a hard drive that contained 50 24-inch platters and was capable of storing 5 million characters and weighed a ton.
1956
Wen Tsing Chow develops PROM.
1956
The programming language FORTRAN is introduced to the public October 15, 1956.
1956
Leo Laporte is born November 29, 1956.
1957
Carl Sassenrath is born in 1957.
1957
IBM announces it will no longer be using vacuum tubes and releases its first computer that had 2000 transistors.
1957
Fred Cohen is born in 1957.
1957
Barry Leiba is born in 1957.
1957
Mark Hurd is born January 1, 1957
1957
John von Neumann passes away February 8, 1957 (age of 53)
1957
Mark Dean is born March 2, 1957.
1957
Emil Post passes away on April 21, 1954 (age 57)
1957
Jeff Hawkins is born June 1, 1957.
1957
Bruce Eckel is born July 8, 1957.
1957
Fairchild Semiconductor is founded by Andy Grove, Eugene Kleiner, Gordon Moore, Jerry Sanders, Robert Noyce.
1957
Digital Equipment Corporation is founded by Kenneth Olsen. The company will later become a major network computer manufacturer.
1957
Nathaniel Borenstein is born September 23, 1957.
1957
Russia launches the first artificial satellite, named Sputnik on October 4, 1957.
1957
In response to Sputnik the United States creates the new agency ARPA.
1957
Casio is established.
1957
Eric Raymond is born December 4, 1957.
1958
Valerie Landau is born in 1958.
1958
Keltec is founded.
1958
JEDEC is founded.
1958
Shafi Goldwasser is born in 1958.
1958
Clair Lake passes away in 1958.
1958
GoldStar is founded. The company later becomes LG Electronics.
1958
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is renamed to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1958
Control Data Corporation introduces Seymour Cray's 1604 for $1.5 Million, half the cost of the IBM computer.
1958
Henry Phillips passes away in 1958.
1958
NEC builds its first computer the NEAC 1101.
1958
Jeffrey Raikes is born May 29, 1958.
1958
William Higinbotham created the first video game called: Tennis for Two.
1958
The programming language FORTRAN II is created. Later FORTRAN III is created but never released to the public.
1958
President Eisenhowers Christmas address is the first voice transmission from a satellite.
1958
Sergio Verdu is born August 15, 1958.
1958
Steve Case is born August 21, 1958.
1958
Martin Odersky is born September 5, 1958.
1958
The first integrated circuit is first developed by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments. The first IC was demonstrated on September 12, 1958.
1958
Ursula Burns is born September 20, 1958.
1958
Neil deGrasse Tyson is born October 5, 1958.
1958
Michael Muuss is born October 16, 1958.
1958
Phil Farrand is born November 5, 1958.
1959
Feng-hsiung Hsu is born in 1959.
1959
Harald Alvestrand is born in 1959.
1959
Danese Cooper is born January 19, 1959.
1959
Hitachi is founded.
1959
The Harvard-MARK I is turned off for the last time.
1959
Peter Molyneux is born May 5, 1959.
1959
Dudley Buck passes away May 21, 1959 (Age: 32)
1959
Louis Ridenour passes away May 21, 1959 (Age:47)
1959
Robert Noyce creates an integrated circuit with component connections made of aluminum lines on silicon.
1959
Nathan Myhrvold is born August 3, 1959.
1959
Stephen Wolfram is born August 29, 1959.
1959
The Luna 2 becomes the first human made object to land on the moon on September 14, 1959.
1959
Edith Clarke passes away on October 29, 1959 (age 76)
1959
Leonard Kleinrock starts to developing packetization.
1959
Motorola produces the two-way, fully transistorized mobile radio.
1959
Panasonic is founded.
1959
Paul Galvin passes away November 5, 1959 (Age: 64)
1959
Richard Brodie is born November 10, 1959.
1959
David Culler is born November 12, 1959.
1959
Brian Fox is born December 11, 1959.
Year
Event
1960
2,000 computers are in use in the United states.
1960
IBM develops the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors in New York.
1960
Will Wright is born January 20, 1960.
1960
IBMs 1400 series machines, aimed at the business market begin to be distributed.
1960
The first integrated circuits (IC's) begin being sold for $120.00 and are chosen to be used on the Gemini spacecraft.
1960
The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.
1960
Psychologist Frank Rosenblatt creates the Mark I Perception, which has an "eye" that can learn to identify its ABCs.
1960
NASA launches TIROS, the first weather satellite into space.
1960
Bob Bemer introduced the backslash.
1960
Jaron Lanier is born May 3, 1960.
1960
Physicist Theodore Maiman creates the first laser May 16, 1960.
1960
AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM.
1960
RS-232 is introduced by EIA.
1960
IFIP is founded.
1960
Mochio Umeda is born August 30, 1960.
1960
Digital introduces the PDP-1 the first minicomputer.
1960
Samuel Caldwell passes away October 12, 1960 (Age: 56)
1960
Randy Pausch is born October 23, 1960.
1960
Tim Cook is born November 1, 1960.
1960
Anders Hejlsberg is born in December of 1960.
1961
Brendan Eich is born in 1961.
1961
Jack Tretton is born in 1961.
1961
Hewlett-Packard stock is accepted by the New York Stock Exchange for national and international trading.
1961
Ed Colligan is born March 4, 1961.
1961
Michael Lazaridis is born March 14, 1961.
1961
Peter Diamandis is born May 20, 1961.
1961
Leonard Kleinrock publishes his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" is published May 31, 1961.
1961
Fairchild Semiconductor introduces the first commercially available integrated circuits (IC's).
1961
Lee Forest passes away June 30, 1961 (Age:87)
1961
The first IBM Selectric typewriter is released July 27, 1961.
1961
Funa Electric Co., Ltd is established in 1961.
1961
General Motors puts the first industrial robot to work in a New Jersey factory. The robot is a 4,000 pound Unimate.
1961
Accredited Standards Committee is founded, this committee later becomes the INCITS.
1961
Memorex is founded.
1961
P.Z. Ingerman develops a thunk.
1961
IBM introduces the 7030 Stretch supercomputer, one of the first 64-bit computers.
1961
Bryant Computer Products is established.
1961
ECMA is established.
1961
Michael Hawley is born November 18, 1961.
1961
The programming language FORTRAN IV is created.
1962
Steve Mann is born in 1962.
1962
Steve McConnell is born in 1962.
1962
Steve Russell creates "SpaceWar!" and releases it in February 1962. This game is considered the first game intended for computers.
1962
Philippe Kahn is born March 16, 1962.
1962
Ricoh is founded.
1962
Dan Farmer is born April 5, 1962.
1962
Leonard Kleinrock releases his paper talking about packetization.
1962
AT&T places first commercial communications Satellite, the Telstar I into orbit.
1962
Paul Baran suggests transmission of data using fixed size message blocks.
1962
J.C.R. Licklider becomes the first Director of IPTO and gives his vision of a galactic network.
1962
Philips invents the compact audio cassette tape.
1962
The NASA rocket, the Mariner II, is equipped with a Motorola transmitter on it's trip to Venus.
1962
Sharp is founded.
1962
Gabe Newell is born November 3, 1962.
1962
Phillip Katz is born November 3, 1962.
1962
Brian Fargo is born December 15, 1962.
1963
Steve Dorner is born in 1963.
1963
IEEE is founded.
1963
David Baszucki is born in 1963.
1963
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers.
1963
Tedd Waitt is born January 18, 1963.
1963
Molly Holzschlag is born January 25, 1963.
1963
Regina Dugan is born March 19, 1963.
1963
Garry Kasparov is born April 13, 1963.
1963
Kevin Mitnick is born August 6, 1963.
1963
Clifford Berry passes away October 30, 1963 (Age: 45)
1963
Bell Telephone introduces the push button telephone November 18, 1963.
1963
On December 7, 1963 during a Army-Navy football game on CBS the first instant replay is shown on TV.
1964
Clay Shirky is born in 1964.
1964
Jeff Bezos is born January 12, 1964.
1964
Norbert Weiner passs away March 18, 1964 (Age: 69)
1964
Dartmouth College John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC) and run it for the first time May 1, 1964.
1964
Baran publishes reports "On Distributed Communications."
1964
AT&T starts the practice of monitoring telephone calls in the hopes of identifying phreakers.
1964
The TRANSIT system becomes operational on U.S. Polaris submarines. This system later becomes known as GPS.
1964
On April 7, 1964 IBM introduces its System/360, the first of its computers to use interchangeable software and peripheral equipment.
1964
Leonard Kleinrock publishes his first book on packet nets entitled Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Design.
1964
The first computerized encyclopedia is invented at the Systems Development Corporation.
1964
Tom Hall is born September 2, 1964.
1964
Marc Benioff is born September 25, 1964.
1964
Eric Bina is born in October 1964.
1964
Megan Smith is born in October 1964.
1964
Tsutomu Shimomura is born October 23, 1964.
1964
Paul Graham is born November 13, 1964.
1964
Alan Emtage is born November 27, 1964.
1964
Kenneth Olsen is issued U.S. patent #3,161,861 on December 15, 1964 for Magnetic core memory.
1965
Mary Jepsen is born in 1965.
1965
Steven Sinofsky is born in 1965.
1965
Kevin Poulsen is born in 1965.
1965
Håkon Wium Lie is born in 1965.
1965
Jeffrey Skoll is born January 16, 1965.
1965
Robert Scoble is born January 18, 1965.
1965
Ted Nelson coins the term "hypertext," which refers to text that is not necessarily linear.
1965
Hypermedia is coined by Ted Nelson.
1965
Digital Equipment Company's first successful minicomputer, the PDP-8 is introduced. The computer sold for $18,000 and over 50,000 are sold.
1965
Donald Davies coins the word "Packet."
1965
Engineers at TRW Corporation develop a Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System that later develops to the Pick Database Management System used today on Unix and Windows systems.
1965
Scott Guthrie is born February 6, 1965.
1965
Michael Dell is born February 23, 1965.
1965
Analog Devices is founded.
1965
Millions watch for the first time a space probe crashing into the moon on March 24, 1965.
1965
Texas Instruments develops the transistor-transistor logic (TTL).
1965
Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant dial-up connection between a TX-2 computer n Massachusetts and a Q-32 in California.
1965
Yukihiro Matsumoto is born April 14, 1965.
1965
Gordon Moore makes an observation in a April 19, 1965 paper that later becomes widely known as Moore's Law.
1965
Robert Tappan Morris is born November 8, 1965.
1965
Allen DuMont passes away November 14, 1965.
1965
Tim Westergren is born December 1, 1965.
1966
Mike Culbert is born in 1966.
1966
Louis Couffignal passes away in 1966 (Age:64)
1966
Gary McKinnon is born February 10, 1966.
1966
Mark Pincus is born February 13, 1966.
1966
MITs Joseph Weizenbaum writes a program called Eliza, that makes the computer act as a psychotherapist.
1966
Lawrence G. Roberts and Tom Marill publish a paper about their earlier success at connecting over dial-up.
1966
David Filo is born April 20, 1966.
1966
William Eccles passes away April 29, 1966 (Age: 91)
1966
Stephen Gray establishes the first personal computer club, the Amateur Computer Society.
1966
Robert Taylor joins ARPA and brings Larry Roberts there to develop ARPANET.
1966
The programming language BCPL is created.
1966
Jimmy Wales is born August 7, 1966.
1966
The original Star Trek is shown for the first time on United States NBC September 8, 1966.
1966
Paul Thurrott is born October 29, 1966.
1967
Satya Nadella is born in 1967.
1967
IBM creates the first floppy disk.
1967
Jonathan Ive is born February 27, 1967.
1967
Sue Gardner is born May 11, 1967.
1967
Sebastian Thrun is born May 14, 1967.
1967
Kim Komando is born July 1, 1967.
1967
Pierre Omidyar is born June 21, 1967.
1967
The first CES is held in New York from the July 24 to 28, 1967.
1967
Donald Davies creates 1-node NPL packet net.
1967
Wes Clark suggests use of a minicomputer for network packet switch.
1967
The LOGO programming language is developed and is later known as "turtle graphics," a simplified interface useful for teaching children computers.
1967
Ralph Baer creates "Chase", the first video game that was capable of being played on a television.
1967
HES is developed at the Brown University.
1967
Nokia is formed.
1967
Reid Hoffman is born August 5, 1967.
1967
Jon Tetzchner is born August 29, 1967.
1967
GPS becomes available for commercial use.
1967
ISACA is established.
1967
John Romero is born October 28, 1967.
1967
Erik Cassel is born December 16, 1967.
1968
Mike McCue is born in 1968.
1968
Theodore Ts'o is born in 1968.
1968
Intel Corporation is founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore on July 18, 1968.
1968
Hewlett Packard began marketing the first mass-marketed PC and the worlds first desktop computer, the HP 9100A.
1968
The first Network Working Group (NWG) meeting is held.
1968
Bob Propst invents the office cubicle.
1968
Larry Roberts publishes ARPANET program plan on June 3, 1968.
1968
James Rand passes away June 3, 1968.
1968
On June 4, 1968 Dr. Robert Dennard at the IBM T.J. Watson Research center is granted U.S. patent #3,387,286 describing a one-transistor DRAM cell. DRAM will later replace magnetic core memory in computers.
1968
First RFP for a network goes out.
1968
Alan Cox is born July 22, 1968.
1968
UCLA is selected to be the first node on the Internet as we know it today.
1968
The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" is released.
1968
SHRDLU is created.
1968
Seiko markets a miniature printer for use with calculators.
1968
NMB is founded in September 1968.
1968
Chester Carlson passes away September 19, 1968.
1968
Sony invents Trinitron.
1968
Jerry Yang is born November 6, 1968.
1968
Rasmus Lerdorf is born November 22, 1968.
1968
Andreas Raab is born November 24, 1968.
1968
Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates Hypertext on the NLS on December 9, 1968.
1968
Sabeer Bhatia is born December 30, 1968.
1969
Jennifer Pahlka is born in 1969.
1969
Rob Hartill is born January 30, 1969.
1969
Control Data Corporation led by Seymour Cray, release the CDC 7600, considered by most to be the first supercomputer.
1969
AT&T Bell Laboratories develop Unix.
1969
David S. Lee invents the daisy wheel printer at Diablo Data Systems.
1969
Tony Fadell is born March 22, 1969.
1969
The first totally artificial heart is placed into Haskell Carp on April 4, 1969 for 64 hours until a donor heart became available.
1969
Charles Sie publishes a dissertation at Iowa State University where he described and demonstrated Phase-change memory (PRAM). Although PRAM has still never been commercially practical, it is still being developed at companies like Samsung.
1969
Intel releases its first product, the 3101 Schottky TTL bipolar 64-bit static random-access memory (SRAM). In the same year Intel released the 3301 Schottky bipolar 1024-bit read-only memory (ROM)
1969
Steve Crocker releases RFC #1 on April 7, 1969 introducing the Host-to-Host and talking about the IMP software.
1969
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is founded on May 1, 1969.
1969
Adrian Carmack is born May 5, 1969.
1969
Marc Ewing is born May 9, 1969.
1969
Gary Starkweather, while working with Xerox invents the laser printer.
1969
UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969.
1969
At 20:18 UTC on July 21, 1969 the Apollo 11 space craft lands on the moon and Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon.
1969
Intel sells its first commercial product, the 3101 Schottky bipolar 64-bit SRAM chip.
1969
Ralph Baer files for a US Patent on August 21, 1969 that describes playing games on a television and would later be a part of the Magnavox Odyssey.
1969
Sheryl Sandberg is born August 28, 1969.
1969
Interpoint is founded.
1969
On August 29, 1969 the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment (called "IMP", which is short for Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA.
1969
Paradyne is founded.
1969
The first U.S. bank ATM went into service at 9:00am on September 2, 1969.
1969
On September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the IMP switch.
1969
Charley Kline a UCLA student tries to send "login", the first message over ARPANET at 10:30 p.m on October 29, 1969. The system transmitted "l" and then "o" but then crashed making today the first day a message was sent over the Internet and the first network crash.
1969
CompuServe, the first commercial online service, is established.
1969
Markus Neteler is born December 21, 1969.
1969
Linus Torvalds is born December 28, 1969.
1970
Western Digital is founded.
1970
Steve Crocker and UCLA team releases NCP.
1970
Intel announces the 1103, a new DRAM memory chip containing more than 1,000 bits of information. This chip is classified as random-access memory (RAM).
1970
The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is established to perform basic computing and electronic research.
1970
The Forth programming language is created by Charles H. Moore.
1970
Henry Edward Roberts establishes Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970.
1970
China's first satellite the "Dong Fang Hong I" is launched into space April 24, 1970.
1970
U.S. Department of Defense develops ada a computer programming language capable of designing missile guidance systems.
1970
The Sealed Lead Acid battery begins being used for commercial use.
1970
Jack Kilby is awarded the National Medal of Science.
1970
Patrick Norton is born June 26, 1970.
1970
Tom Merritt is born June 28, 1970.
1970
Philips introduces the VCR.
1970
Centronics introduces the first dot matrix printer.
1970
Xeni Jardin is born August 5, 1970.
1970
John Carmack is born August 20, 1970.
1970
Emanuel Goldberg passes away on September 13, 1970 (Age: 89)
1970
Intel releases its first commercially available DRAM, the Intel 1103 in October 1970. Capable of storing 1024 bytes or 1KB of memory.
1970
Tom Anderson is born on November 8, 1970.
1970
Douglas Engelbart gets a patent for the first computer mouse on November 17, 1970.
1970
IBM introduces the System/370, which included the use of Virtual Memory and utilized memory chips instead of magnetic core technology.
1971
Philo Farnsworth passes away.
1971
The first 8" floppy diskette drive was introduced.
1971
Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail, the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users.
1971
The computer gets a voice, as the first computer is demonstrated with a synthesized voice.
1971
Becky Worley is born February 4, 1971.
1971
Bob Bemer publishes world's first warning on Year 2000 problem in 1971.
1971
While at Intel, Dov Frohman invents and patents (#3,660,819) the EPROM.
1971
The first laser printer is developed at Xerox PARC.
1971
FTP is first purposed April 16, 1971 by Abhay Bhushan of MIT in RFC 114.
1971
IBM introduces its first speech recognition program capable of recognizing about 5,000 words.
1971
Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney create the first arcade game called "Computer Space."
1971
SMC is founded.
1971
Elon Musk is born June 28, 1971.
1971
Julian Assange is born July 3, 1971.
1971
Marc Andreessen is born July 9, 1971.
1971
Sky Dayton is born August 8, 1971.
1971
Wallace Eckert passes away August 24, 1971 (Age: 69)
1971
Steve Wozniak and Bill Fernandez develop a computer called the Cream Soda Computer.
1971
Schadt and Helfrich develop twisted nematic.
1971
Niklaus Wirth invents the Pascal programming language.
1971
Intel with the help of Ted Hoff introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971. The 4004 had 2,300 transistors, performed 60,000 operations per second (OPS), addressed 640 bytes of memory, and cost $200.00. In addition to the introduction of the 4004, Intel also introduced the 4-bit bus.
1971
First edition of Unix released November 03, 1971. The first edition of the "Unix PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL [by] K. Thompson [and] D. M. Ritchie." It includes over 60 commands like: b (compile B program); boot (reboot system); cat (concatenate files); chdir (change working directory); chmod (change access mode); chown (change owner); cp (copy file); ls (list directory contents); mv (move or rename file); roff (run off text); wc (get word count); who (who is one the system). The main thing missing was pipes.
1972
Erik Selberg is born in 1972.
1972
Hans Anvin is born January 12, 1972.
1972
Evan Williams is born March 31, 1972.
1972
Intel introduces the 8008 processor on April 1, 1972.
1972
Roland is founded April 18, 1972.
1972
Peter J. Bentley is born May 16, 1972.
1972
The first video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey is demonstrated May 24, 1972 and later released by Magnavox and sold for $100.00 USD.
1972
Syzygy Engineering is renamed to Atari June 27, 1972.
1972
Atari is founded in June 28, 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
1972
Oki Data is founded.
1972
ARPA is renamed to DARPA.
1972
The programming language FORTRAN 66 is created.
1972
Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs invents the C programming language.
1972
Edsger Dijkstra is awarded the ACM Turning Award.
1972
The compact disc is invented in the United States.
1972
Cray Research Inc. is founded.
1972
SAP is founded.
1972
Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game on November 29, 1972.
1972
First public demo of ARPANET.
1972
Whetstone is first released in November 1972.
1972
Fletcher Jones passes away November 7, 1972 (Age: 41)
1972
Norm Abramson' Alohanet connected to ARPANET: packet radio nets.
1973
The architecture used with the CP/M operating system becomes the standard for the next eight years until MS-DOS is introduced.
1973
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December of 1974 in RFC 675.
1973
Pioneer is founded.
1973
Martha Fox is born February 10, 1973.
1973
Howard H. Aiken passes away March 14, 1973.
1973
Larry page is born March 26, 1973.
1973
ARPA deploys SATNET the first international connection.
1973
Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov passes away in 1973.
1973
Dr. Martin Cooper makes the first handheld cellular phone call to Dr. Joel S. Engel April 3, 1973.
1973
Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) on May 22, 1973.
1973
The first VoIP call is made.
1973
IBM introduces its 3660 Supermarket System, which uses a laser to read grocery prices and UPC bar codes.
1973
Interactive laser discs make their debut.
1973
The first Landsat satellite is launched July 23, 1973.
1973
Chris Pirillo is born July 26, 1973.
1973
The ICCP is founded.
1973
Sergey Brin is born August 21, 1973.
1973
Jason Shellen is born August 30, 1973.
1973
U.S. Patent 3,906,166 is filed October 17, 1973 for a radio telephone system, which helps paves the way for what we know today as a cell phone.
1973
Judge awards John Vincent Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer on October 19, 1973.
1973
Tony Hsieh is born December 12, 1973.
1974
Jeri Ellsworth is born in 1974.
1974
Joshua Schachter is born in 1974.
1974
Kim Dotcom is born January 21, 1974.
1974
Christopher Stone is born March 10, 1974.
1974
Foxconn is founded.
1974
Intel's improved microprocessor chip is introduced April 1, 1974, the 8080 becomes a standard in the computer industry.
1974
The U.S. government starts its antitrust suit against AT&T and doesn't end until 1982 when AT&T agrees to divest itself of the wholly owned Bell operating companies that provided local exchange service.
1974
John Draper aka Captain Crunch discovers a breakfast cereal children's whistle creates a 2600 hertz tone. Using this whistle and a blue box he's able to successfully get into AT&T's phone network and make free calls anywhere in the world.
1974
The first Toshiba floppy disk drive is introduced.
1974
Vannevar Bush passes away June 28, 1974.
1974
While at Intel, Federico Faggin at Intel is granted patent #3,821,715 on June 28, 1974 that describes a memory system for a multichip digital computer.
1974
The IBM MVS operating system is introduced.
1974
A commercial version of ARPANET known as Telenet is introduced and considered by many to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP).
1974
IBM develops SEQUEL, which today is known as SQL today.
1974
IBM introduces SNA.
1974
Charles Simonyi coins the term WYSIWYG.
1974
Donald Sherman whose speech was limited by a neurological disorder used a computer with a speech prosthesis program designed by John Eulenberg to order the first pizza delivery using a computer on December 4, 1974.
1974
Altair 8800 kits start going on sale December 19, 1974.
1975
Stanley Gill passes away in 1975 (Age: 49)
1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen Establish Microsoft April 4, 1975.
1975
Christopher Strachey passes away May 18, 1975.
1975
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff announce Altair BASIC.
1975
MITS ships one of the first PCs, the Altair 8800 with one kilobyte (KB) of memory. The computer is ordered as a mail-order kit for $397.00.
1975
A flight simulator demo is first shown.
1975
Paul Allen and Bill Gates write the first computer language program for personal computers, which is a form of BASIC designed for the Altair. Gates later drops out of Harvard and founds Microsoft with Allen.
1975
Molly Wood is born May 23, 1975.
1975
GTCO Calcomp is founded.
1975
Marissa Mayer is born May 30, 1975.
1975
Xerox exits the computer market on July 21, 1975.
1975
The Byte Shop, one of the first computer stores, open in California.
1975
The IBM 5100 becomes the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM.
1975
EPSON enters the US market.
1975
Gina Trapani is born September 19, 1975.
1975
Bram Cohen is born October 12, 1975.
1975
IMS Associates begin shipping its IMSAI 8080 computer kits on December 16, 1975.
1976
Andrew Ng is born in 1976.
1976
On February 3, 1976 David Bunnell publishes an article by Bill Gates complaining about software piracy in his Computer Notes Altair newsletter.
1976
Micropolis is founded.
1976
Intel introduces the 8085 processor on March 1976.
1976
Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple, the Apple I computer in 1976, later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fools day.
1976
The first 5.25-inch floppy disk is invented.
1976
Microsoft introduces an improved version of BASIC.
1976
The First Annual World Altair Computer convention and first convention of computer hobbyists is held in New Mexico on March 26, 1976.
1976
The term meme is first defined in the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
1976
The first Public Key Cryptography known as the Deffie-Hellman is developed by Whitfield Deffie and Martin Hellman.
1976
The Intel 8086 is introduced June 8, 1976.
1976
vTech is founded.
1976
Amber MacArthur is born June 27, 1976.
1976
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak demonstrate the first Apple computer at the Home Brew Computer Club.
1976
Laszlo Kalmar passes away August 2, 1976 (Age: 71)
1976
The NASA Viking 2 lands on Mars September 3, 1976 and transmits pictures and soil analysis.
1976
Professor at Bowling Green State University first uses the term 'Computer Ethics'.
1976
The original Apple computer company logo of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree is replaced by the well known rainbow colored apple with a bite out of it.
1976
Matrox is founded.
1976
Salman Khan is born October 11, 1976.
1976
Sarah Lane is born October 12, 1976.
1976
DES is approved as a federal standard in November 1976.
1976
Jack Dorsey is born November 19, 1976.
1976
Microsoft officially drops the hyphen in Micro-soft and trademarks the Microsoft name November 26, 1976.
1976
In December of 1976 Bill Gates drops out of Harvard to devote all his time to Microsoft.
1977
Dennis Fong is born in 1977.
1977
Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington released the 80-103A Modem, the first Modem for the home user.
1977
The PET 2001 is introduced on January of 1977.
1977
Apple Computer becomes Incorporated January 4, 1977.
1977
Ward Christansen develops a popular modem transfer modem called Xmodem.
1977
Apple Computer Inc., Radio Shack, and Commodore all introduce mass-market computers.
1977
Kevin Rose is born February 21, 1977.
1977
Derek Gehl is born March 10, 1977.
1977
The First West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco's Brooks Civic Auditorium is held on April 15, 1977.
1977
Peter G. Neuman coins the term peopleware.
1977
Apple Computers introduces the Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics is demonstrated at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16, 1977.
1977
ARCNET the first commercially network is developed.
1977
Zoom Telephonics is founded.
1977
Commodore announces that the PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) will be a self-contained unit, with a CPU, RAM, ROM, keyboard, monitor and tape recorder all for $495.00
1977
Microsoft sells the license for BASIC to Radio Shack and Apple and introduces the program in Japan.
1977
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is released May 25, 1977.
1977
Apple releases the Apple II series of computers June 10, 1977.
1977
Oracle is founded in June 16, 1977 by Larry Ellison, Robert Miner, and Ed Oates.
1977
Chad Hurley is born July 21, 1977.
1977
Tandy announces it will manufacture the TRS-80 Model 1, the first mass-produced computer on August 3, 1977. This computer is commonly referred to as the Trash 80.
1977
Frederic Williams passes away August 11, 1977 (Age: 66)
1977
NASA Voyager 1 is launched into space September 5, 1977. This spacecraft is the farthest man-made object in space.
1977
BSD is introduced.
1977
Danah Boyd is born November 24, 1977.
1978
Dan Bricklin creates VisiCalc.
1978
Nate Silver is born January 13, 1978.
1978
Kurt Godel passes away January 14, 1978 (Age:71)
1978
The first BBS is put online February 16, 1978.
1978
George Perlegos with Intel develops the Intel 2816, the first EEPROM.
1978
TCP splits into TCP/IP driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of UDP.
1978
Epson introduces the TX-80, which becomes the first successful dot matrix printer for personal computers.
1978
Micron is founded.
1978
OSI is developed by ISO.
1978
Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle create the first MUD.
1978
The first spam e-mail was sent by Gary Thuerk in May 1, 1978 an employee at Digital who was advertising the new DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T on ARPAnet.
1978
Microsoft introduces a new version of COBOL.
1978
Peter Sunde is born September 13, 1978.
1978
Stanley Frankel passes away in May of 1978 (Age: 59)
1978
The 5.25-inch floppy disk becomes an industry standard.
1978
In June of 1978 Apple introduces Apple DOS 3.1, the first operating system for the Apple computers.
1975
Louise Joy Brown born July 25, 1978, becomes the first human baby born as a result of using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).
1978
Dennis C. Hayes and Dale Heatherington create the Hayes modem company.
1978
Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss have the first major microcomputer bulletin board up and running in Chicago.
1978
ETA is founded.
1978
Steve Chen is born in 1978.
1978
John Shoch and Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC develop the first worm.
1978
Dries Buytaert is born November 19, 1978.
1979
Jawed Karim is born in 1979.
1979
Robert Williams of Michigan became the first human to be killed by a robot at the Ford Motors company on January 25, 1979. Resulting in a $10 million dollar lawsuit.
1979
Software Arts Incorporated VisiCalc becomes the first electronic spreadsheet and business program for PCs.
1979
Epson releases the MX-80 which soon becomes an industry standard for dot matrix printers.
1979
SCO is founded.
1979
ATEN is established.
1979
Activision is founded.
1979
Printronix is founded.
1979
Sierra is founded.
1979
Brian Tong is born April 2, 1979.
1979
Nathan Emberton is born on May 7, 1979.
1979
The Intel 8088 is released on June 1, 1979.
1979
Markus Persson is born June 1, 1979.
1979
Bit 3 is founded.
1979
Texas Instruments enters the computer market with the TI 99/4 personal computer that sells for $1,500.
1979
Hayes markets its first modem that becomes the industry standard for modems.
1979
Atari introduces a coin-operated version of Asteroids.
1979
More than half a million computers are in use in the United States.
1979
3COM is founded by Robert Metcalfe.
1979
The programming language DoD-1 is officially changed to Ada.
1979
The Motorola 68000, a 16/32-bit processor is released and is later chosen as the processor for the Apple Macintosh and Amiga computers.
1979
Zenith acquires Heathkit and creates Zenith Data Systems (ZDS).
1979
Phoenix is founded.
1979
VMS is introduced.
1979
Steven Coons passes away in August of 1979 (Age: 67)
1979
Herman Lukoff passes away September 24, 1979 (Age: 56)
1979
CompuServe becomes the first commercial online service offering dial-up connection to anyone September 24, 1979.
1979
Usenet is first started.
1979
David Hansson is born October 15, 1979.
1979
A technology consulting firm in Washington D.C. known as Network Solutions is established.
1979
Bit 3 is established.
1979
Seagate is founded.
1979
Saitek is founded
1979
Novell Data System is established as an operating system developer. Later in 1983 the company becomes the Novell company.
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Event
1980
Oliver Standingford passes away in 1980 (Age: 67-68)
1980
On January 3, Hewlett Packard introduces its HP-85. A microcomputer with 16kB of RAM and a 5-inch CRT display.
1980
John Mauchly passes away January 8, 1980 (Age: 73)
1980
IBM introduces RISC.
1980
IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.
1980
IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM.
1980
Rambus if founded.
1980
The Learning Company is founded.
1980
Andrew Baron is born March 31, 1980.
1980
Rob Kalin is born April 11, 1980.
1980
Micro Solutions is founded.
1980
Microsoft licenses Unix and starts to develop a PC version, XENIX.
1980
Integrated Device Technology is founded.
1980
The programming language FORTRAN 77 is created.
1980
The first Tandy Color computer is introduced.
1980
AST is founded.
1980
FASA Corporation is founded.
1980
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released May 21, 1980.
1980
Klaus Samelson passes away May 25, 1980 (Age:62)
1980
Steve Ballmer joins Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 30th employee, the first business manager hired by Bill Gates.
1980
Atari becomes the first company to register a Copyright for two computer games "Asteroids" and "Lunar Lander" on June 17, 1980.
1980
FIC is founded.
1980
Iomega is established.
1980
Quantum is founded.
1980
Harman is founded.
1980
Microtek is founded October 23, 1980.
1980
ARPANET experiences first major network crash causing it to go down for four hours October 27, 1980.
1980
Shawn Fanning is born November 22, 1980.
1981
Albert Gonzalez is born in 1981.
1981
Jeff Dailey, a 19-year old becomes the first person to die from computer gaming after dying from a heart attack after posting a score of 16,660 on Berzerk.
1981
Cali Lewis is born January 25, 1981.
1981
Johnathan Wendel is born February 26, 1981.
1981
SuperSpeed is founded.
1981
Satya Pal Asija receives the first U.S. patent for a computer software program May 26, 1981.
1981
DFI is founded.
1981
The game port is first introduced on IBM computers.
1981
Creative Technology is founded July 1, 1981.
1981
Diskeeper is founded on July 22, 1981.
1981
Microsoft buys the rights for QDOS from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000 on July 27, 1981.
1981
MS-DOS 1.0 was released August, 1981.
1981
American National Standards Institute more commonly known as ANSI was founded.
1981
IBM joins the computer race by announcing the IBM Personal Computer on August 12, 1981, which runs the new MS-DOS operating system and has a starting price of $1,565.
1981
APC is founded.
1981
Weitek is founded.
1981
Kermit is developed at the Columbia University in New York
1981
Xerox introduces the graphical Star workstation. This computer greatly influences the development of Apples future computer models, Lisa and Macintosh, as well as Microsoft's Windows.
1981
VHDL is proposed and begins development.
1981
Virgin Interactive is founded.
1981
VMEbus is developed.
1981
Hayes Introduces the Smartmodem 300 with its standard setting AT command set and an operating speed of 300 bits per second.
1981
Adam Osborne introduces the Osborne I, the first successful portable computer, which weighs 25 pounds.
1981
Hewlett-Packard Superchip the first 32-bit chip is introduced.
1981
Commodore ships the VIC-20, which later becomes the worlds most popular computer costing only $299.95.
1981
Logitech is founded in Apples, Switzerland.
1981
Adaptec is founded.
1981
BITNET is founded.
1981
Progress Software is founded.
1981
Gemlight is founded.
1981
Hayes releases the Smartmodem 1200 with transfer rates of 1,200 bits per second.
1981
CTX is established.
1981
IBM joins the computer race by introducing IBM 5150 PC that used the 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 processor, 16 kB base memory, and PC-DOS (MS-DOS) for the OS.
1981
Kensington is founded.
1981
Jolie O’dell is born September 16, 1981.
1981
WYSE is founded.
1981
MG Siegler is born November 2, 1981.
1982
Ben Silbermann is born in 1982.
1982
Peter Norton creates Norton Utilities.
1982
Sony releases its first Trinitron monitor.
1982
Sigma Designs is founded.
1982
SGI is founded.
1982
Signal Technology is founded.
1982
The Intel 80286 is introduced February 1, 1982.
1982
Maxtor is founded.
1982
SyQuest Technology is founded.
1982
MidWest Micro is founded.
1982
Hercules is founded.
1982
Labtec is founded.
1982
Disney releases the movie Tron on July 9, 1982, the first movie to use computer generated special effects.
1982
Number Nine is founded.
1982
Symantec is founded.
1982
Jack Kilby is inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
1982
Microsoft releases FORTRAN for the PC COBOL for MS-DOS, and Multiplan for the Apple II and CP/M machines.
1982
Microsoft establishes a subsidiary in England to begin foreign sales efforts.
1982
WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program that will become one of the computer markets most popular word processing program.
1982
The first luggable computer is introduced.
1982
Sun is incorporated in February 1982, with four employees.
1982
MicroProse founded.
1982
Autodesk is established.
1982
Lotus Development Corporation is founded.
1982
Compaq Computer Corp. is founded by Rod Canion and other Texas Instruments Incorporated engineers. Compaq is the first company to introduce a clone of the IBM PC (the Compaq Portable in 1983) and become IBMs biggest challenger in the corporate market.
1982
Orchid Technology is founded.
1982
The Commodore 64 an 8-bit computer with 64 kilobytes of memory and Commodore BASIC begins to be sold.
1982
ENSONIQ is founded.
1982
Diamond Multimedia is founded.
1982
Electronic Arts (EA) is founded May 28, 1982.
1982
LucasArts is founded.
1982
SGI introduces the IRIX operating system.
1982
The movie Blade Runner is released June 25, 1982.
1982
Ryan Block is born June 25, 1982.
1982
Veronica Belmont is born July 21, 1982.
1982
A Philips factory in Germany creates the world's first compact disc August 17, 1982.
1982
The HX-20 becomes the first notebook-sized portable computer is introduced by Epson.
1982
MS-DOS version 1.25 is released.
1982
Apple Computer is the first personal computer manufacturer to hit the $1 billion mark for annual sales.
1982
Adobe is founded.
1982
Professor Scott Fahlman creates a post on bulletin board mention the idea of using a series of characters to represent a smiley face and frown face that later became known as emoticons.
1982
BTC is founded.
1982
Sony begins selling the first Audio CD players October 1, 1982.
1982
The XT bus is introduced.
1982
Rich Skrenta a 15-year old high school student creates the first known computer virus known as The Elk Cloner.
1982
The first permanent artificial heart is implanted into Barney Clark December 2, 1982.
1982
AutoCAD is introduced in December 1982.
1983
Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program is introduced January 26, 1983.
1983
Borland is founded.
1983
Mindscape is founded.
1983
AT&T releases its first version of System V.
1983
Wang Laboratories creates the single in-line memory module (SIMM).
1983
Chicony is founded.
1983
Intuit is founded by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx.
1983
Apple releases the Lisa computer, the first commercial computer with a GUI.
1983
The IBM XT is first introduced on March 8, 1983.
1983
The first Apple WWDC is held.
1983
Compaq introduces the first 100% IBM compatible computer the "Compaq Portable" in March of 1983.
1983
PC World magazine first appears on newstands March 1983.
1983
Drew Houston is born March 4, 1983.
1983
John Scully becomes CEO of Apple on April 8, 1983.
1983
BSD 4.2 is released and introduces pseudo terminals.
1983
Zoran is founded.
1983
The movie Wargames is released June 3, 1983.
1983
Targus is founded.
1983
Paul Allen leaves Microsoft.
1983
Iomega introduces the Bernoulli drive.
1983
The TIME magazine nominates the personal computer as the "machine of the year" December 26,1982, the first non-human ever nominated.
1983
The 414s, a group of hackers are caught by the FBI.
1983
Belkin is founded.
1983
Interplay is founded.
1983
Ultima Electronics Corp. (Artec) is founded.
1983
Novell introduces Netware.
1983
The Apple IIe is introduced. The computer contains 64 kilobytes of RAM one megahertz 6502 processor and running Applesoft BASIC and sells for $1,400.
1983
ARPANET standardizes TCP/IP January 1, 1983.
1983
Tandy, Epson and NEC all sell notebook computers however only the Tandys model 100 becomes popular because of its low price of $499.
1983
THX is established.
1983
More than 10 million computers are in use in the United States.
1983
Cabletron Systems is founded.
1983
MS-DOS 2.0 was released March, 1983.
1983
The first edition of the PC World Magazine appears in news stands in March of 1983.
1983
Alexis Ohanian is born April 24, 1983.
1983
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is released May 25, 1983.
1983
Wacom is founded July 12, 1983.
1983
True BASIC is created and is a compiled, structured language. It doesn't require line numbers, as the original BASIC did, and includes the advanced control structures necessary for structured programming.
1983
Macrovision is founded.
1983
The QIC Standard becomes the first standard in the computer history for tape drives.
1983
Soviet jets shoot down a civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 flying from New York to Seoul and kill all 269 passengers and crew. As a result of this mistake President Ronald Regan orders the U.S. military to make Global Positioning System (GPS) available for civilian use.
1983
The GNU operating system is first announced by Richard Stallman September 27, 1983.
1983
IAB is founded in 1983.
1983
IBM announces the PCjr (PC junior) computer November 1, 1983.
1983
Genius is founded November 3, 1983.
1983
Laszlo Kozma passes away November 9, 1983 (Age: 80)
1983
Microsoft Windows was announced November 10, 1983.
1983
The largest BBS Exec-PC goes online November 28, 1983.
1984
The AT&T company we know today officially starts, expiring the famous Bell logo January 1, 1984.
1984
Docutel/Olivetti introduce the Olivetti PC, compatible with the IBM PC on January 3, 1984.
1984
Fujio Masuoka invents flash memory.
1984
Charles W. Hull develops the first 3D printer.
1984
On January 4th Netherlands Antilles issues a 45-cent postage stamp of a computer making a newspaper.
1984
Hitachi announces it has developed the first memory chip capable of holding 1MB on January 5th.
1984
The now famous Apple "1984" commercial is aired during Super Bowl XVIII January 22, 1984.
1984
Quantex is founded.
1984
On January 24, 1984 the Apple Macintosh is introduced.
1984
Maxwell Newman passes away February 22, 1984 (Age:87)
1984
Albatron is founded.
1984
IBM's AT computer is introduced.
1984
The MUD was known as MAD becomes the first global MUD and runs across BITNET.
1984
IBM PC Division (PCD) introduces its first portable computer, the IBM Portable weighing in at 30 pounds.
1984
Prodigy is founded.
1984
Justine Ezarik is born March 20, 1984.
1984
Microsoft creates a new hardware and peripheral division March 29, 1984.
1984
ESS Technologies is founded.
1984
The first desktop laser printer the HP LaserJet is first introduced in May 1984.
1984
John Resig is born May 8, 1984.
1984
Mark Zuckerberg is born May 14, 1984.
1984
The game Tetris is first released in the USSR June 6, 1984.
1984
Guillemot is founded.
1984
Amiga is purchased by Commodore Business Machines on August 15th.
1984
Primax is founded.
1984
Artecon is founded.
1984
NTI is founded.
1984
Egghead Software is founded.
1984
Bill Gates is featured on the cover of TIME magazine.
1984
Atmel is founded.
1984
ASN.1 is first defined.
1984
The 3.5-inch floppy diskette is introduced and later becomes an industry standard.
1984
Dell Computer is founded May 3, 1984 in Austin Texas.
1984
Dustin Moskovitz is born May 22, 1984.
1984
Fox Software FoxBASE is introduced.
1984
Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS.
1984
The now famous Apple commercial is shown during the Super Bowl, the commercial introduces the Apple Macintosh, a computer with graphical user interface instead of needing to type in commands. In six months sales of the computer reach 100,000.
1984
Apple AppleTalk networking protocol is introduced.
1984
Dhrystone is developed.
1984
The first version of the HP-UX operating system is introduced.
1984
IBM develops EGA.
1984
The IBM Full AT motherboard is introduced in August of 1984.
1984
The computer Museum opens in downtown Boston.
1984
Microsoft introduces MS-DOS 3.0 for the IBM PC AT and MS-DOS 3.1 for networks.
1984
The Tandy 1000 personal computer is introduced and becomes the best-selling IBM-compatible computer of the year.
1984
IBM introduces the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) video card with higher resolution, more colors, and a quicker response then previous video cards.
1984
University of Southern California professor Fred Cohen creates alarm when he warns the public about computer viruses in his Computer Virus - Theory and Experiments paper.
1984
The term cyberspace is first used and coined by William Gibson in his book Neuromancer.
1984
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are awarded the National Medal of Technology
1984
The beginning of the greatest adventure computer gaming series is released by Sierra. Kings Quest 1: Quest for the crown is released to the public.
1984
The Yellow book of CD-ROM standards is written.
1984
The United States introduces the Comprehensive Crime Control act on October 12, 1984. This act has been amended several times to help prevent and protect users against computer fraud.
1984
Gottfrid Warg is born October 17, 1984.
1984
The original Terminator movie is released October 26, 1984.
1984
SETI is founded November 20, 1984.
1984
Cisco is founded.
1984
Cirrus is established.
1984
ISA is expanded to 16-bit capability.
1984
Helmut Schreyer passes away December 12, 1984 (Age: 72)
1985
The WELL is founded in February 1985 by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant.
1985
On January 4th at CES, Commodore introduces the Commodore 128 PC with 8502 processor 128 kB of RAM and ROM cartridge port.
1985
Ontrack is founded.
1985
AMI is Established by S. Shankar in 1985.
1985
On January 4th at CES, Atari introduces the Atari 130XE, 130ST, 260ST, 520ST, 65XE, 65XEM, and 65XEP computers.
1985
The first Internet domain name symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company on March 15, 1985.
1985
Charles Hamblin passes away May 14, 1985 (Age: 63).
1985
The GNU manifesto is published by Dr. Dobb's Journal
1985
Software Arts assets are sold to Lotus. Software Arts is most well known for its VisiCalc program.
1985
The Amiga aka A1000 is introduced.
1985
Westwood Studios is founded.
1985
Blake Ross is born June 12, 1985.
1985
The first Gamepad is introduced by Nintendo.
1985
PNY Technologies is founded.
1985
Dell releases its first computer, the "Turbo PC."
1985
Titus Interactive is founded.
1985
Philip Estridge passes away August 2, 1985 (Age: 48)
1985
Microtek introduces the world's first 300-dpi black-and-white sheetfed scanner.
1985
Quantum Computer Services is founded, this company later becomes AOL.
1985
Microsoft and IBM begin collaboration on the next-generation operating system (OS/2).
1985
The computer company Gateway 2000 is founded in Siox City, Iowa on September 5, 1985.
1985
Alliance Semiconductor is founded.
1985
CAT1 wiring is introduced.
1985
NeXT is founded.
1985
Intel introduces the 80386 in October.
1985
Digi is founded.
1985
Turtle Beach Systems is founded.
1985
Soyo is founded.
1985
Systemax is founded.
1985
Exabyte is founded.
1985
Novalogic is founded.
1985
Sophos is founded.
1985
Paul Brainerd of Aldus Corporation introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh, a program that lets users mix type and graphics on the same page. The combination of this software and the new Apple LaserWriter laser printer helps create the desktop publishing field.
1985
The Mach Project begins at the Carnegie Mellon University.
1985
IBM develops NetBEUI.
1985
Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November, 1985 and is initially sold for $100.00.
1985
ATI is founded.
1985
DriveSavers is founded.
1985
Microsoft releases first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985.
1985
Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros. September 13, 1985.
1985
Steve Jobs quits Apple September 16, 1985.
1985
Boca is established.
1985
IBM introduces the Baby AT motherboard form factor.
1985
Corel is founded.
1985
Arash Ferdowsi is born October 7, 1985.
1985
The first C++ reference guide is published by Bjarne Stoustrup October 14, 1985.
1985
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is released in North America October 18, 1985.
1985
Microsoft releases the first version of Microsoft Excel on the Apple Macintosh November 30, 1985.
1985
Gravis is founded.
1985
Aaron Levie is born December 27, 1985.
1986
The Hacker Manifesto is published in Phrack (Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10) on January 8, 1986.
1986
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is formed January 16, 1986.
1986
The space shuttle Challenger explodes January 28, 1986 during take off, resulting in the death of the seven crew members.
1986
Chipsets begin to be found on computer motherboards with the introduction of the Chips and Technology 82C206.
1986
MSI is founded.
1986
D-Link is founded in March of 1986.
1986
Beny Alagem buys the Packard Bell name from Teledyne and starts the Packard Bell computer company.
1986
The term vaporware is first used by Philip Elmer-DeWitt in a TIME magazine article.
1986
Gigabyte is founded.
1986
Chaintech is founded in November 1986.
1986
Amptron is founded.
1986
Antec is founded.
1986
Pixar is co-founded by Steve Jobs.
1986
Apple introduces the Mac Plus. The computer contained one megabyte of RAM, new keyboard that contained cursors and numeric keypad and sold for $2,600.
1986
The AT or 101 key keyboard is introduced by IBM.
1986
Compaq introduces the first 386-based PC compatible computer.
1986
Bethesda Softworks is founded.
1986
Mustang is founded.
1986
PKWARE is founded.
1986
The NCSA opens.
1986
Microsoft is listed on the New York Stock Exchange selling shares to the public at $21 each, making Bill Gates one of the worlds youngest billionaires.
1986
More than 30 million computers are in use in the United States.
1986
JVC is founded.
1986
BIOSTAR is founded.
1986
Leadtek is founded.
1986
Codemasters is founded.
1986
Heinz Nixdorf passes away March 17, 1986 (Age: 61)
1986
SBS Technologies is founded.
1986
The domain ibm.com comes online March 19, 1986.
1986
MS-DOS 3.2 was released April, 1986.
1986
IBM becomes the first company to use a one megabit chip in the IBM Model 3090.
1986
IMAP is developed by Mark Crispin at Stanford University.
1986
Eric Thomas develops the first Listserv.
1986
NSFNET is created.
1986
BITNET II is created.
1986
IBM PC Division (PCD) announces it's first laptop computer, the PC Convertible, weighing 12 pounds, which is 18 pounds lighter than the earlier portable computer.
1986
CD-i format is specified.
1986
Paradise Systems is founded.
1986
David Karp is born July 6, 1986.
1986
Tandy announces the Color Computer 3 July 30, 1986.
1986
Aztech is established.
1986
Ubisoft is founded.
1986
Avid is established.
1986
Vintech is founded.
1986
Unisys is founded in September of 1986.
1986
James Wilkinson passes away October 5, 1986 (Age:67)
1986
Aaron Swartz is born November 8, 1986.
1987
Steve Wozniak ends his employment with Apple on February 6, 1987.
1987
The domain apple.com comes online February 19, 1987.
1987
The AdLib sound card and first mass market PC sound card is released.
1987
Oak Technology is founded.
1987
CompuServe introduces the GIF standard and images.
1987
Robert Noyce is awarded the National Medal of Technology.
1987
Microsoft purchases Forethought Incorporated. The company that developed the presentation software PowerPoint.
1987
Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works.
1987
SiS is founded.
1987
Dolby AC-1 is introduced.
1987
Microsoft transfers its ownership of the Xenix operating system to SCO in 1987.
1987
VIA Technologies is founded.
1987
Microsoft and IBM release OS/2 1.0.
1987
The Mac SE is introduced at $2,900.
1987
Russel Ohl passes away in March of 1987 (Age:89)
1987
IBM introduces the PS/2 personal computer that has improved graphics, a 3.5-inch diskette drive, and proprietary bus to help prevent clone makers competition, and a bidirectional 8-bit port.
1987
IBM sends clone manufacturers letters demanding retroactive licensing fees.
1987
IBM develops 8514/A.
1987
MS-DOS 3.3 was released April, 1987.
1987
The domain cisco.com comes online May 14, 1987.
1987
ALi is founded.
1987
Brodxent is founded.
1987
McAfee is founded by John McAfee.
1987
Konexx is founded.
1987
Microsoft acquires Forethought on June 29, 1987, the developer of what we know today as Microsoft PowerPoint.
1987
IBM introduces MCA.
1987
The first ARM processor computer, the Acorn Archimedes is released.
1987
Microsoft Shares hits $100 per share.
1987
Apogee is founded, Apogee is well known for its computer games as well as the company who first released a 'Shareware' game.
1987
The SPARC processor is first introduced by Sun.
1987
The first e-mail from China is sent to its connection in Germany September 20, 1987.
1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation TV show premiers for the first time.
1987
Andrew Tanenbaum releases the MINIX operating system in 1987.
1987
IBM introduces VGA.
1987
RealTek is founded October 1987.
1987
Walter Brattain passes away October 13, 1987.
1987
I.R.I.S. is founded.
1987
Sonic Solutions is founded.
1987
Larry Wall introduces Perl 1.0.
1987
On November 22, 1987 a Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW-11 TV broadcast gets hacked by a person wearing a Max Headroom mask.
1987
Microsoft introduces Windows 2.0 in December 9, 1987.
1987
Kingston is founded.
1987
Larry Wall releases the first version of Perl on December 18, 1987, version 1.0.
1987
Elitegroup Computer Systems is established.
1988
Richard Feynman passes away February 15, 1988 (Age:69)
1988
Edmund Berkeley passes away March 7, 1988.
1988
Apple files a copyright infringement against Microsoft for Windows 2.03 and Hewlett Packard for New Wave in comparison with their Macintosh operating system.
1988
About 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.
1988
Kučera and Pavel Baudiš found Avast in 1988.
1988
SNMP is introduced.
1988
Robert Morris releases the Morris worm November 22, 1988, becoming one of the first major worms to infect roughly 6,000 computers over the Internet and helps establish the CERT Coordination Center.
1988
First T-1 backbone is added to ARPANET.
1988
Xircom is founded.
1988
SanDisk is founded.
1988
Cyrix is founded.
1988
Compro is founded.
1988
Bitnet and CSNET merge to create CREN.
1988
Trend Micro is founded.
1988
Creative Labs introduces the SoundBlaster, a sound card for the PC that contains an 11-voice FM synthesizer with text-to-speech, digitized voice input/output, a MIDI port, a joystick port and bundled software.
1988
Jarkko Oikarinen develops IRC
1988
EISA is announced in September as an alternative to MCA.
1988
Motorola releases the 88000 processor.
1988
NTP is introduced.
1988
APS Tech is founded.
1988
Linksys is founded.
1988
AXLE is founded.
1988
Mustek is founded.
1988
Intel 80386SX is introduced.
1988
Sierra Entertainment's Kings Quest IV becomes first game to support AdLib.
1988
Promise is founded.
1988
ARCHOS is founded.
1988
OSF is founded.
1988
Morphing is first introduced in the movie Willow.
1988
MS-DOS 4.0 was released July, 1988.
1988
Steve Jobs unveils the NeXT computer October 12, 1988.
1988
MS-DOS 4.01 was released November, 1988.
1988
Andrei Ershov passes away December 8, 1988.
1989
GriD Systems Corporation introduces the first pen-based computer.
1989
PCMCIA trade association is founded.
1989
ActionFront is founded.
1989
The Gif89a standard is introduced.
1989
Corel first releases CorelDRAW in January 1989.
1989
Softex is founded.
1989
WANK worm is first detected.
1989
Plextor is founded.
1989
ABIT is founded.
1989
XFX is founded.
1989
SQL Server is introduced.
1989
Jan Rajchman passes away April 1, 1989.
1989
Antoni Kilinski passes away May 6, 1989.
1989
Fred Cohen is awarded the Information Technology Award.
1989
Intel releases the 486DX processor, with more than 1 million transistors and multitasking capabilities.
1989
Orange book is released by Philips and Sony.
1986
Robert Morris becomes first person indicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on July 26, 1989.
1989
The first release of Microsoft Office for the Apple Mac is released on August 1, 1989.
1989
William Shockley passes away August 12, 1989.
1989
Poqet announces the Poqet PC the first pocket-sized MS-DOS compatible computer.
1989
Microid Research is founded.
1989
Tyan is founded.
1989
Asus is founded.
1989
SCO introduces the SCO UNIX operating system in 1989.
1989
Iwill is founded.
1989
General Software is founded.
1989
The first ISP known as "The World" begins servicing customers.
1989
KingMax is founded.
1989
AC-2 is introduced.
1989
The networking routing protocol OSPF is introduced.
1989
Citrix is founded.
1989
Mad Catz is founded.
1989
S3 Inc. is founded.
Year
Event
1990
In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN propose a 'hypertext' system, which is the first start of the Internet as we know it today.
1990
Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 a completely new version of Microsoft Windows. The version will sell more than 3 million copies in one year.
1990
Microsoft exceeds $1 billion in sales and becomes the first company to do so.
1990
Godwin's Law is conceived.
1990
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 is released in February of 1990.
1990
Alan Perlis passes away February 7, 1990 (Age: 68)
1990
Electronic Frontier Foundation or EFF is founded February 16, 1990.
1990
ARPANET is decommissioned on February 28, 1990.
1990
An Wang passes away march 24, 1990 (Age: 70)
1990
Hubble telescope goes into space.
1990
Microsoft releases its first product for the Russian market Russian DOS 4.01.
1990
The World, the first commercial Internet dial-up access provider comes online.
1990
Norton sells his software business to Symantec.
1990
Creative Labs introduces the SoundBlaster Pro.
1990
Quarterdeck releases its memory management program QEMM386 version 5.1 which quickly becomes the fastest-selling software program in the Untied States.
1990
Media Vision is founded.
1990
Team 17 is founded.
1990
Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) is founded.
1990
TRENDnet is founded.
1990
Robert Noyce passes away June 3, 1990 (Age: 63)
1990
Joseph Licklider passes away June 26, 1990 (Age: 75)
1990
The Multimedia Personal Computer (MPC) standards are developed by Tandy and Microsoft.
1990
Microsoft and IBM stop working together to develop operating systems.
1990
Arthur Samuel passes away July 29, 1990 (Age: 89)
1990
IBM introduces XGA.
1990
ARPANET replaced by NSFNET.
1990
The first search engine Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal Canada is released on September 10, 1990
1990
Rocket Software is founded.
1990
GSM standard is defined.
1990
Trilobyte games is founded.
1990
The NiMH battery begins being used for commercial use.
1990
Eidos is founded.
1990
Panda Software is founded.
1990
Rocket Software is founded.
1990
Archie, the first search engine is introduced on September 10, 1990.
1990
Gopher is developed at the University of Minnesota. The program is a menu-driven search-and-retrieval tool and helps Internet users location information online.
1990
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is launched October 17, 1990.
1990
Intel releases the 80386SL processor that uses low power and found in many portable computers.
1990
Tim Berners-Lee successfully sets up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990.
Computer History - 1991
Year
Event
1991
John Bardeen passes away January 30, 1991.
1991
id Software is founded February 1, 1991.
1991
Silicon & Synapse, which later becomes Blizzard is founded February 8, 1991.
1991
BSDi is founded.
1991
Python is introduced.
1991
Lexmark is formed.
1991
Bungie is founded.
1991
HTTP/0.9 is introduced.
1991
NSF opens the Internet to commercial use.
1991
AMD introduces the AM386 microprocessor family in March.
1991
Intel introduces the Intel 486SX chip in April in efforts to help bring a lower-cost processor to the PC market selling for $258.00.
1991
Cell phone Lithium batteries begin being recalled in Japan after phone explodes and burns mans face while talking on the phone.
1991
The Sega Genesis game "Zero Wing" is introduced. The phrase "All your base are belong to us" later becomes a popular saying for computer gamers and geeks.
1991
Symantec releases Norton antivirus software.
1991
The programming language FORTRAN 90 is created.
1991
Following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with IBM, Microsoft changes the name of OS/2 to Windows NT.
1991
Creative Labs releases a multimedia upgrade kit that includes a CD-ROM drive, the SoundBlaster Pro sound card, a MIDI kit and a variety of software applications. The kit allows IBM compatible users to obtain all tools needed to meet the MPC standards.
1991
Pretty Good Privacy more commonly known as PGP a public key used for encryption is released as Freeware by Philip Zimmerman.
1991
The computer Monkey Virus is first discovered in Edmonton, Canada.
1991
The domain microsoft.com comes online May 2, 1991.
1991
Microsoft releases Visual Basic in May of 1991.
1991
AVG is founded.
1991
Epic Games is established.
1991
Jetta is founded.
1991
Cmedia is founded.
1991
IONA is founded.
1991
The Caldera company who specializes in printing and RIP solutions is founded.
1991
Dolby introduces AC-3.
1991
Apple introduces System 7 operating system May 13, 1991.
1991
Derrick Lehmer passes away May 22, 1991.
1991
The DLT tape drive is released as a very reliable, high-speed and high-capacity tape drive solution.
1991
The Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) is developed by Intel, Xircom and Zenith Data Systems.
1991
TrueType a scalable font is introduced and developed by Microsoft and Apple and is used on all Apple computers and PC computers running Windows.
1991
MS-DOS 5.0 was released June, 1991.
1991
Adobe Photoshop 2.0 is released in June of 1991.
1991
Saul Rosen passes away June 9, 1991 (Age: 69)
1991
The London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine No 2 for the bicentennial year of Charles Babbage's birth in June of 1991.
1991
The movie Terminator 2 is released July 1, 1991.
1991
The first Cybercafe opens in July 1991 in San Francisco .
1991
The World Wide Web is launched to the public August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European Partial Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland develops the Web as a research tool.
1991
Linux is introduced by Linus Torvalds in August 25, 1991.
1991
Apple QuickTime is introduced December 2, 1991.
Year
Event
1992
Internet Society formed.
1992
Grace Hopper passes away January 1, 1992.
1992
John Scully first uses the term PDA at CES while describing the Apple Newton on January 7, 1992.
1992
NSFNET upgraded to T-3 backbone.
1992
Microsoft introduces Windows 3.1. It sells more than 1 million copies within the first two months of its release.
1992
Intel releases the 486DX2 chip March 2 with a clock doubling ability that generates higher operating speeds.
1992
Isaac Asimov passes away April 6, 1992 (Age: 72)
1992
AdLib files for bankruptcy May 1, 1992.
1992
TextPad is first released in 1992.
1992
Microsoft acquires Fox Software in June, maker of FoxPro.
1992
Allen Newell passes away July 19, 1992.
1992
VESA local bus is introduced.
1992
Radio Shack releases the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX personal computers, which are the first personal based upon the MPC specification.
1992
The Reusable Alkaline battery is used for commercial use.
1992
Hauppauge is founded.
1992
Jeff Hawkins helps found the company Palm.
1992
Visioneer is founded.
1992
Intel releases iCOMP.
1992
GeCAD is founded.
1992
I/O Magic is founded.
1992
Popular Gopher tool Veronica is first released.
1992
EPP version 1.7 is released.
1992
Dr. Web is founded.
1992
IBM introduces ThinkPad, the industry's first notebook with a 10.4 inch color TFT display and TrackPoint.
1992
EVERCOOL is founded.
1992
Thrustmaster is founded.
1992
TWAIN a standard interface for scanning equipment is developed by the TWAIN consortium, as it was called, consisted of representatives from Aldus, Caere, Eastman, Kodak, Hewlett Packard and Logitech.
1992
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard develops ECP.
1992
ESET is founded.
1992
GFI Software is founded.
1992
Macromedia is founded.
1992
MIME standard is defined.
1992
Interactive Media is founded.
1992
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is developed by SQL Access Group.
1992
Visual Basic for MS-DOS is released in September 1992.
1992
Paul Eisler passes away on October 26, 1992 (Age: 85)
1992
Jean-Loup Gaily and Mark Alder release gzip on October 31, 1992.
1992
Adobe Photoshop 2.5 is released for the Macintosh and for the first time Windows in November of 1992.
1992
Microsoft releases Visual Basic 2.0 in November of 1992.
1992
John Kemeny passes away December 26, 1992.
Year
Event
1993
Fifty World Wide Web servers are known to exist as of January.
1993
Winsock is released January 1993.
1993
President Bill Clinton puts the United States White House online with a World Wide Web page and E-mail address for the President, Vice President and first lady.
1993
Microsoft releases Windows NT, Microsoft Office 4.0 and MS-DOS 6.0.
1993
Intel develops PPGA.
1993
Novell acquires all UNIX assets from AT&T.
1993
Efficient Networks is established.
1993
The Open Group is given the UNIX trademark in 1993.
1993
Tandy sells its computer business to AST Research.
1993
Intel releases the Pentium Processor on March 22 1993. The processor is a 60 MHz processor, incorporates 3.2 million transistors and sells for $878.00.
1993
Samsung introduces the KM48SL2000 synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) and quickly becomes an industry standard.
1993
The NCSA releases the Mosaic browser April 22, 1993.
1993
Microsoft and IBM introduce a PnP ISA.
1993
The first live streaming was done by the band Severe Tire Damage on June 24, 1993. The event was seen live in Australia and other locations over the Internet.
1993
Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released July 27, 1993.
1993
CBL Data Recovery is founded.
1993
Sun Solaris is introduced.
1993
SigmaTel is founded.
1993
Supermicro is founded.
1993
Microsoft releases Visual Basic 3.0.
1993
Neomagic is founded.
1993
The White House and the United Nations come online in 1993 and help start the .gov and .org top level domains.
1993
Wine begins to be developed.
1993
John Scully is named president of Apple Computers.
1993
NVIDIA is founded.
1993
Stellar Data Recovery is founded.
1993
IrDA is founded.
1993
InterNIC is established.
1993
FRISK software is founded.
1993
Tim Negris, a VP at Oracle Corporation coins the term Thin client.
1993
Funcom is founded.
1993
ACD Systems is founded.
1993
WinRAR is first released.
1993
PowerQuest is founded.
1993
The Internet experiences massive growth.
1993
GT Interactive Software is founded.
1993
Edgar F. Codd introduces the world to OLAP.
1993
ADSI is developed at Bellcore
1993
Broderbund releases the computer game Myst is released September 24, 1993 and later is honored for being one of the most popular, well known, and sold IBM compatible and Apple Macintosh title.
1993
The Environmental Protection Agency, along with 50 computer companies, establish Energy Star guidelines that aim to decrease the amount of power a PC uses when they are idle.
1993
Developed by IBM, Motorola and Apple the PowerPC processor for the Apple Power Mac is introduced and later included in the Power Mac.
1993
VCD is introduced.
1993
The first webcam connects to the Internet in November of 1993.
1993
The PC game DOOM by Id Software was released December 10, 1993. Today, DOOM is thought of as a turning point for first person shooters and for computer games in general.
1993
Microsoft Windows 3.11, an update to Windows 3.1 is released December 31, 1993.
1993
Thomas Watson, Jr. passes away December 31, 1993 (Age: 79)
Year
Event
1994
Yahoo! is founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.
1994
Vice President Al Gore makes a speech where he coins the term "Information Superhighway."
1994
IBM releases OS/2 Warp.
1994
CDDI is adopted into the X3-T9.5 standard.
1994
VESA Local Bus 2.0 is released.
1994
Intel releases the second generation of Intel Pentium processors on March 7, 1994.
1994
Netscape (Mosaic Communications corporation) is found by Marc Andreessen and James H. Clark April 4, 1994.
1994
Caldera is founded.
1994
3DFX is founded.
1994
Kevin Mitnick is featured on a front page story of the New York Times July 4, 1994.
1994
Gary Kildall passes away July 11, 1994.
1994
The company Silicon & Synapse is renamed to Blizzard.
1994
Acorp is founded.
1994
Håkon Wium Lie comes up with a concept for CSS.
1994
Microsoft introduces SMS, now known as SCCM.
1994
Iomega releases its Zip disk drive and diskettes.
1994
Red Hat Linux is founded.
1994
Microsoft releases its beta for Windows 95, code named Chicago.
1994
Mindsping is founded.
1994
initio is established.
1994
Corsair is founded.
1994
Rasmus Lerdorf creates PHP.
1994
IBM PCD introduces the IBM ThinkPad 775CD, the first notebook with an integrated CD-ROM.
1994
Hotwired sells the first banner ad to AT&T on October 27, 1994 and begins running the first Internet banner ad campaign.
1994
A mathematical flaw in the Intel Pentium involving the Pentium not correctly performing floating-point calculations is discovered. Later this leads to Intel millions of processors.
1994
YAHOO is created in April, 1994.
1994
PCTEL is founded.
1994
PC CHIPS is incorporated.
1994
Intel becomes the largest-volume motherboard manufacturer in the world.
1994
Pervasive Software is founded.
1994
Sunbelt Software is founded.
1994
Phoebe is founded.
1994
JTS is founded.
1994
Eiger Labs is founded.
1994
The e-mail hoax "Good Times virus" is first sent out in e-mail. The hoax claimed that an e-mail containing "Good Times" in the subject was spreading on the Internet and if opened would erase everything on the hard drive and to forward the warning to all your friends. This e-mail continues to be sent out even today.
1994
MS-DOS 6.22 was released April, 1994.
1994
Intel introduces the Intel 486DX4 processor.
1994
Stephen Dunwell passes away March 21, 1994 (Age: 80)
1994
Commodore computers declares bankruptcy April 29, 1994.
1994
ANSI approves the ATA standard May 12, 1994.
1994
Bashir Rameyev passes away May 16, 1918
1994
Microsoft releases Windows 3.11.
1994
Geek Squad is founded June 16, 1994.
1997
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is established.
1994
Jay Miner passes away June 20, 1994 (Age: 62).
1994
Norway's telecom company, Telenor, starts a research project that later becomes Opera Software
1994
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 is first released in September of 1994.
1994
Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released September 21, 1994.
1994
The W3C organization is founded by Tim Berners-Lee on October 1, 1994.
1994
The Mach Project ends.
1994
Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first Netscape browser is officially released October 13, 1994. This browser also introduces the Internet to Cookies.
1994
Perl 5.000 is released October 17, 1994.
1994
Intel announces IA-64 in October of 1994.
1994
Professor Thomas Nicely sends an e-mail on October 30, 1994 describing the Intel FPU bug.
1994
Amazon.com domain is registered November 1, 1994.
1994
WXYC (89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC USA) becomes first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the Internet November 7, 1994.
1994
William Higinbotham passes away November 10, 1994 (Age: 84)
1994
Robert Miner passes away November 11, 1994 (Age: 52)
1994
Mosaic branches off the company Netscape November 14, 1994.
1994
The W3C organization holds its first meeting December 14, 1994.
1994
Netscape version 1 is released.
1994
On December 24, 1994 Unisys and CompuServe announced that they expected licensing fees for software that creates and displays GIF images. This caused a lot of hysteria among developers and website owners using GIF images because of potential future GIF taxes that lead to the development of the PNG format.
Year
Event
1995
Apple allows other computer companies to clone its computer by announcing its licensed the Macintosh operating system rights to Radius on January 4, 1995.
1995
IBM introduces the butterfly keyboard.
1995
The dot-com boom starts.
1995
Code named Utopia, Microsoft Bob is introduced to the public January 5, 1995 at the CES by Bill Gates.
1995
The first Wiki is created.
1995
Yahoo.com domain is registered on January 18, 1995.
1995
Allen Coombs passes away January 30, 1995 (Age: 84)
1995
George Stibitz passes away on January 31, 1995 (Age: 91)
1995
Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1999.
1995
EPoX is founded in February
1995
The first VoIP software (Vocaltec) is released allowing end users to make voice calls over the Internet.
1995
Apple develops FireWire.
1995
O'Reilly Media sells the Global Network Navigator ("GNN") to AOL in 1995.
1995
Netscape introduces SSL in February of 1995.
1995
Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested February 15, 1995.
1995
Yahoo! is incorporated March 1, 1995.
1995
U.S. Robotics purchases Palm, and begins the PalmPilot product line.
1995
Perl 5.001 is released March 13, 1995.
1995
Transmeta is founded.
1995
Tundra is founded.
1995
Matsonic is founded.
1995
Arnold I. Dumey passes away.
1995
The Opera browser version 1 is released April 1, 1995.
1995
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert, Jr. passes away June 3, 1995.
1995
John Vincent Atanasoff passes away on June 15, 1995 at the age of 91.
1995
The movie 'The Net' with Sandra Bullock is released July 28, 1995.
1995
Silicon Image is founded.
1995
SegaSoft is founded.
1995
HighPoint Technologies is founded.
1995
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0 on August 16, 1995.
1995
Microsoft releases Visual Basic 4.0 in August of 1995.
1995
The domain ebay.com comes online August 4, 1995.
1995
Netscape goes public at $28.00 a share and by the closing ends at $58.00 a share.
1995
The first E3 is held in Las Vegas Nevada.
1995
Intel introduces the SMBus.
1995
Microsoft and General Electrics NBC television network form a partnership.
1995
LiveScript is renamed to JavaScript.
1995
Java is introduced.
1995
The Iomega Jaz drive is introduced.
1995
Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 was released May 30, 1995.
1995
Microsoft Releases Windows 95, within four days the software sells more than 1 million copies.
1995
PHP is publicly released June 8, 1995.
1995
One of the largest and well known e-commerce sites today opens its website for the first time. Amazon.com is officially opened July of 1995.
1995
MARGI is founded.
1995
Real is founded.
1995
DSVD is released.
1995
WebTV Networks is founded.
1995
EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar.
1995
Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
1995
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 2.0 on November 22, 1995 and officially starts the browser war between Netscape.
1995
CD-E is introduced to the general public.
1995
Ruby is released.
1995
eBay is founded on September 3, 1995.
1995
The movie Hackers is released September 15, 1995.
1995
On September 20, 1995 AT&T splits into three separate publically traded companies: a systems and equipment company, a computer company, and a communications services company.
1995
Microsoft releases DirectX 1.0 (4.02.0095) on September 30, 1995.
1995
EDO memory is introduced.
1995
Intel releases the new motherboard form factor ATX in July of 1995.
1995
Lotus becomes a part of IBM.
1995
The first computer network wiretap is authorized October 23, 1995 and leads later to the arrest of Julio Cesar Ardita.
1995
CPAN is introduced October 26, 1995.
1995
Intel introduces the Intel Pentium Pro in November.
1995
Toy Story is released November 22, 1995 becoming the first movie that is completely computer generated.
1995
HTML 2.0 standard is first published in RFC 1866 November 24, 1995.
1995
Larry Page and Sergey Brin begin developing a search engine called BackRub with PageRank, an important technology that becomes an important part of Google.
1995
On December 4, 1995 Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript and first releases it in Netscape 2.0B3. In the same year they also introduced Java.
1995
IBM unveils Deep Blue December 5, 1995, a parallel computing system that will later play the World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov.
1995
Internet search engine AltaVista launches December 15, 1995.
1995
Konrad Zuse passes away December 18, 1995
1995
USB standard is released.
Year
Event
1996
The domain imdb.com comes online January 5, 1996.
1996
Gertrude Blanch passes away in 1996.
1996
Netgear is founded January 8, 1996.
1966
Harlan Mills passes away January 8, 1996 (Age: 77)
1996
Intel releases the 200 MHz P6.
1996
Jeffrey Lee Parson is born in 1996.
1996
ACARD is founded.
1996
On January 16, 1996 AMD acquires NexGen, a company founded by Thampy Thomas who with the help of other former Intel employees that help create the 80486 created the Nx586.
1996
AOpen is established.
1996
IPv6 is introduced.
1996
3M spins of it data storage business and creates the Imation company.
1996
Telecom Act deregulates data networks.
1996
For the first time more e-mail is sent than postal mail in USA.
1996
The first Java Development Kit (JDK 1.0) codenamed oak is released January 23, 1996.
1996
Juniper Networks is founded February 6, 1996.
1996
The game Duke Nukem 3D is released January 29, 1996.
1996
The domain myspace.com comes online February 22, 1996.
1996
The movie Twister becomes the first featured film put on DVD March 25, 1996.
1996
David Packard passes away on March 26, 1996 (Age: 83)
1996
Microsoft VBScript is introduced.
1996
Cuthbert Hurd passes away.
1996
Soltek is founded.
1996
Angelfire is founded.
1996
Alexa is introduced in April 1996.
1996
The Internet Archive is founded in 1996.
1996
In April of 1996 Jennifer Kaye Ringley installs her first webcam that later became part of the website known as JenniCam. The site later contained several webcams throughout her house and allowed anyone to log into her web page and view updated images every three minutes. The site was later closed in 2003.
1996
DAVICOM is founded in May of 1996.
1996
Dr. Thomas Pabst starts the Tom's Hardware website.
1996
Microsoft releases DirectX 2.0a (4.03.00.1096) on June 5, 1996.
1996
A domestic sheep by the name of Dolly is born and becomes the first mammal to be cloned
1996
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 was released July 29, 1996.
1996
Li-polymer batteries begin being used.
1996
HTTP/1.0 is specified in RFC 1945 and introduced in 1996.
1996
CREN ended its support and since then the network has cease to exist.
1996
What first started off as a Usenet, IMDb becomes incorporated as the Internet Movie Database, Ltd.
1996
Google is first developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
1996
Arescom is founded.
1996
Doctor Byte is founded.
1996
KDE is started to be developed by Matthias Ettrich
1996
Macromedia purchases FutureWave and later releases Macromedia Flash 1.0.
1996
The first CSS specification, CSS 1, is published by the W3C in December 1996.
1996
The CDA amendment to the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications Act that went into effect on February 8, 1996. The law was intended to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, but many Internet users argued that its language was too vague and it violated the rights of free speech. Protesters against the law turned their web pages black and displayed blue ribbon icons downloaded from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. February 8, 1996 is more commonly known as "black Thursday."
1996
Cray Research merges with SGI.
1996
ATA-2 is approved by ANSI.
1996
IBM and Sears sell Prodigy is sold to Internet Wireless.
1996
CyberLink is founded.
1996
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 on August 13, 1996.
1996
Gordon Brown passes away August 23, 1996 (Age: 89)
1996
AT&T introduces Worldnet.
1996
The Mining Company, which today is known as About.com is founded in 1996.
1996
Microsoft releases DirectX 3.0 (4.04.00.0068) on June 5, 1996.
1996
AT&T spins off the system and technology unit, which later renames itself Lucent Technologies.
1996
IBM computer Deep Blue beats chess master Garry Kasparov in two chess matches for the first time on February 2, 1996.
1996
NEC merges its PC operations outside Japan with Packard Bell.
1996
Sony enters the PC market with the release of VAIO.
1996
Creative Labs introduces the 3D Blaster card its first graphics card to be released to the computer market.
1996
Apple Stock sinks to a 10-year low of less than $18.00 a share.
1996
U.S. Robotics Pilot is announced.
1996
Seagate has completed the merger of Conner Peripherals.
1996
Microsoft releases Windows CE.
1996
Tandy announces it will either sell or close all of its 17 incredible Universe stores and 19 of its Computer City stores because of low sales and losses in revenue.
1996
WebTV is introduced allowing users to browse the web from their TV July 10, 1996.
1996
MSNBC makes its debut.
1996
Microsoft introduces the IntelliMouse also known as a wheel mouse.
1996
DDR SDRAM begins being sold.
1996
Acer America Corporation introduces its designer home PCs.
1996
Sun Microsystems releases its line of network computers.
1996
Apple announces it will purchase NeXT for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock on December 20, 1996 and that it will acquire Steve Jobs, Apples cofounder, as a consultant.
1996
Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 is released as a portable operating system solution.
1996
Bit 3 becomes part of SBS Technologies.
1996
Seymour Cray passes away October 5, 1996 (Age: 71)
1996
The U.S. Postal Services releases a new stamp commemorating the 50th birthday of the ENIAC.
1996
Adobe Photoshop 4.0 is released in November of 1996.
1996
The first Tomb Raider game is released November 14, 1996.
1996
United States patent 5,579,430 is granted November 26, 1996 for the digital encoding process of MP3 files.
1996
K56Flex is announced in November by Lucent and Rockwell.
1996
Paul Rand passes away November 26, 1996 (Age:82)
1996
Charles Molnar passes away December 13, 1996 (Age: 61)
1996
Carl Sagan passes away December 20, 1996 (Age: 62)
1996
The ATSC approves of HDTV on December 24, 1996.
1997
HTTP/1.1 is specified in RFC 2616 and officially released in January 1997.
1997
Mosaic development and support officially discontinued on January 7, 1997.
1997
On January 7th Microsoft releases the final version of Internet Explorer 3.0 for the Apple Macintosh.
1997
The PNG standard is introduced on January 10, 1997.
1997
Jean Hoerni passes away January 12, 1997 (Age:73)
1997
Internet2 consortium is established.
1997
Go Daddy is founded in 1997.
1997
Microsoft releases Visual Basic 5.0.
1997
The world learns of Dolly, the first successfully cloned mammal February 22, 1997.
1997
Intel releases the NLX motherboard in March of 1997.
1997
The domain facebook.com comes online March 28, 1997.
1997
IEEE releases 802.11 (WiFi) standard.
1997
The Mars Pathfinder successfully lands on Mars July 4, 1997.
1997
Microsoft releases DirectX 5.0 (4.05.00.0155) on July 16, 1997.
1997
Intel introduces the MMX chip.
1997
The CD burning software Nero is first released.
1997
Unwired Planet develops HDML.
1997
Intel introduces the Slot 1 processor and slot.
1997
Connectix introduces Virtual PC.
1997
ABBYY is founded.
1997
Network Associates is formed after merger between McAfee and Network General.
1997
Leoptics is founded.
1997
Quantum Teleportation is first successfully achieved, bringing quantum computing closer to reality.
1997
Yahoo! introduces Yahoo Mail.
1997
ATA-3 is approved by ANSI.
1997
Several computer manufactures introduce sub 1,000 computers, computers that cost less than $1,000.00.
1997
AOL faces several lawsuits from subscribers who are upset about the difficulties encountered when attempting to connect to its services.
1997
The dancing baby becomes one of the Internets first fads. The dancingbaby is a short 3D animation of a small baby wearing diapers dancing. It was first created by Michael Girard and later tweaked by Ron Lussier at LucasArts who released it on a CompuServe forum as chacha.avi.
1997
Altavista introduces its free online translator Babel Fish.
1997
A cult known as the Heaven's Gate that earns its money from designing web sites commits a mass suicide on March 27, 1997.
1997
Digital Video Discs aka Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) first go on sale.
1997
Microsoft announces plans to buy WebTV Networks in April for $425 million. The deal is later approved and completed in August.
1997
CompUSA joins Dell and Gateway in selling build-to-order PC computers.
1997
Ligos is founded.
1997
Netflix is established.
1997
Winamp is released April 21, 1997.
1997
Intel Pentium II is introduced on May 7, 1997.
1997
IBMs Deep Blue computer defeats world champion chess player Garry Kasparov May 11, 1997 in their second six-game showdown, winning the tie-breaking game in only 62 minutes.
1997
Perl 5.004 is released May 15, 1997.
1997
Kaspersky is founded.
1997
Carsten Haitzler releases Enlightenment.
1997
E ink is established.
1997
CD-RW drives and media are introduced.
1997
Bill Gates is now the worlds richest businessman.
1997
The NASA Pathfinder Web site, which is running real-time images sent from the Pathfinder on Mars receives more than 100 million hits during its first four days, in response to the high popularity NASA sets up 25 mirror pages to handle the traffic. The site sets a new popularity record.
1997
Microsoft begins working on its own search engine.
1997
The TRUSTe organization is founded.
1997
Microsoft saves Apple with a $150 million investment August 6, 1997.
1997
The google.com domain name is registered after Sergey Brin and Larry Page decide to change the name of their BackRub search engine to Google September 15, 1997.
1997
The domain craigslist.com comes online September 24, 1997.
1997
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4.0 in September of 1997.
1997
Microsoft releases Microsoft Office 97.
1997
The first paywall is introduced by the Wall Street Journal.
1997
Microsoft announces Windows 98.
1997
3Com buys U.S. Robotics for $6.6 billion making the consolidation the largest in the history of computer companies.
1997
Apple releases MAC OS 8.
1997
Nullsoft is founded by Justin Frankel.
1997
Webroot Software is founded.
1997
Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple Computers Inc. and agrees to continue creating software for Apple computers, in agreement Apple makes Microsoft Internet Explorer its browser of choice for Macintosh computers.
1997
The Li-Ion battery begins being used for commercial uses.
1997
The Intel Pentium II 233 MHz processor is released.
1997
IEEE introduced 802.11 the wireless network standard in June 1997.
1997
Advanced Graphics Port or AGP designed for Video cards. Designed by Intel is released August of 1997.
1997
Microsoft Windows CE 2.x is released.
1997
The Slashdot website launches.
1997
Steve Jobs rejoins Apple September 16, 1997.
1997
Cyrix is established.
1997
Riven, the sequel to Myst is released in October 1997.
1997
Mina Rees passes away October 25, 1997 (Age: 92)
1997
The domain netflix.com comes online November 10, 1997.
1997
Microsoft acquires Hotmail a free e-mail service in December 1997.
1997
Cyril Cleverdon passes away December 4, 1997 (Age: 83)
1997
John Pinkerton passes away December 22, 1997 (Age: 78)
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Event
1998
Internet weblogs begin to appear.
1998
Intel releases the Celeron processor.
1998
Gathering of Developers (GOD) Games is founded in January of 1998.
1998
Richard Hamming passes away January 7, 1998 (Age: 82)
1998
Compaq Computer purchases Digital Equipment Corporation for $9.6 billion on January 26, 1998.
1998
Trevor Pearcey passes away January 27, 1998 (Age: 79)
1998
Hearings open between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice to whether Microsoft has a monopoly on the software market.
1998
The DMCA is passed.
1998
XML 1.0 becomes a W3C recommendation on February 8, 1998.
1998
ATA-4 is approved by ANSI.
1998
Compuserve becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL.
1998
Lite-on is founded.
1998
VMware is founded.
1998
Blender begins being developed by NeoGeo and Not a Number Technologies in 1998.
1998
eMachines is founded.
1998
Addonics is incorporated.
1998
Palm leaves U.S. Robotics and forms its own company HandSpring.
1998
Comodo is founded.
1998
InterVideo is founded.
1998
The GeekSpeak radio show starts.
1998
InnoVISION is established.
1998
Insyde is founded.
1998
Adobe Photoshop 5.0 is released in May of 1998.
1998
3DNow! is introduced by AMD in May of 1998.
1998
AGP 2.0 is introduced in May of 1998.
1998
Sun releases the JavaStation
1998
Microsoft releases Visual Basic 6.0.
1998
Bill Gates, is hit in the face with a cream pie.
1998
During the demonstration of a pre-release copy of Windows 98 at Comdex Bill Gates and an assistant demonstrate how to install a scanner. During the demonstration Windows 98 caused an error message.
1998
V.90 modem standard is announced and agreed on February 6, 1998
1998
Sun Microsystems begins shipping the JavaStation in March of 1998.
1998
Saehan's MPMan becomes the first MP3 player released in Japan to the public in spring of 1998.
1998
AFREEY is established on April 16, 1998.
1998
The CIH virus also known as Chernobyl virus is created and begins infecting computers and starts executing one year later on April 26, 1999 the same day as the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine on April 26, 1986.
1998
Koko, a gorilla ape and student of American Sign Language holds first interspecies live Internet chat April 27, 1998.
1998
SETI@Home is introduced on June 8, 1998.
1998
McAfee announces it will acquire Dr Solomon's Group PLC June 9, 1998.
1998
Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released on June 25, 1998.
1998
The domain computerhope.com comes online July 14, 1998.
1998
Perl 5.005 is released July 22, 1998.
1998
The "Solar Sunrise" attack is launched by two teenager hackers and gives them access to more than 500 military government computers.
1998
The first Google Doodle appeared on Google's web page August 20, 1998 to celebrate burning man.
1998
Google files for incorporation in California September 4, 1998.
1998
The CST is initiated by ETA.
1998
The term gray hat is first used in 1998 by L0pht.
1998
AMR is released September 9, 1998
1998
Reynold Johnson passes away September 15, 1998.
1998
Google hires Craig Silverstein as its first employee.
1998
Microsoft Internet Explorer passes Netscape in Internet browser market share for the first time as reported in a September 28, 1998 International Data Corporation report.
1998
Rockstar Games is founded.
1998
MySQL is introduced.
1998
PayPal is founded.
1998
Amazon purchases IMDb.
1998
Apple introduces the iMac, the iMac helps bring Apple back on the computer maps as a very easy and friendly computer.
1998
Award, well known for its computer BIOS becomes part of Phoenix, another company well known for its computer BIOS.
1998
Sony introduces the Sony Memory Stick.
1998
David Evans passes away October 3, 1998.
1998
Jonathan Postel passes away October 16, 1998 (Age: 55)
1998
Thomas Flowers passes away October 28, 1998.
1998
In October of 1998 Microsoft announced that future releases of Windows NT would no longer have the initials of NT and that the next edition would be Windows 2000.
1998
Intel introduces the Socket 370 socket.
1998
Computer Hope is established in November 1, 1998.
1998
Microsoft acquires the advertising company LinkExchange for $265 Million USD November 6, 1998.
1998
Valve Half-Life a popular FPS game is released November 19, 1998.
1998
AOL announces it will acquire Netscape Communications for an estimated value of $4.2 billion November 24, 1998.
