Timeline of the History of Computers

1. Apple Computer launches the Macintosh, which is the first successful mouse driven computer with a GUI.

• 1984

• 1990

• 1977

• 1980

2. Microsoft releases Windows Millennium Edition or Me, and Windows 2000.

• 2000

• 1984

• 1822

• 2004

3. An inventor named Blaise Pascal introduces to the world the digital adding machine referred to as the Pascaline digital adding machine.

• 1922

• 1642

• 1822

• 1990

4. Charles Babbage shines forth the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine which is considered a real general purpose computing machine.

• 1977

• 1822

• 1961

• 1990

5. The UNIVAC used by the U.S. Census Bureau becomes the first commercial computer to attract substantial public attention.

• 1974

• 1930

• 1952

• 1980

6. According to Datamation magazine, IBM has approximately an 81.2 percent share of the computer market.

• 1988

• 1935

• 1961

• 1926

7. Apple Computer introduces the Apple II computer system.

• 1999

• 1972

• 1977

• 1992

8. The World Wide Web (WWW) is born after researcher Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language.

• 1988

• 2000

• 1975

• 1990

9. Inventor Lee De Forest patents the vacuum tube triode. It was used as an electronic switch in the first electronic computer systems.

• 1952

• 1984

• 1990

• 1906

10. At Cambridge University, Maurice Wilkes assembles the first practical stored program computer called the EDSAC.

• 1949

• 1969

• 1979

• 1999