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Evolution Of Computers

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

EVOLUTION OF COMPUTERS

BRYAN MARTEL
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1945: The ENIAC is invented. It was a 27-ton, 1800 square foot bundle of vacuum tubes and diodes that was arguably the first true computer.

1953: Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL.

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1958: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip.

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1964: Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface.

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1971: Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the “floppy disk,” allowing data to be shared among computers.

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1973: Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.

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1975: The IBM 5100 becomes the first commercially available portable computer.

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1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers on April Fool’s Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.

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1978: Accountants rejoice at the introduction of VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet program.

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1981: IBM was the first company to develop the graphics card. The monochrome display adapter and the color graphics adapter were plug-in devices that attached to the CRT.

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1983: The Gavilan SC is the first portable computer with the familiar flip form factor and the first to be marketed as a “laptop.”

1985: Microsoft announces its first version of Windows.

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1985: The first dot-com domain name is registered on March 15, years before the World Wide Web was used. The Symbolics Computer Company, a small Massachusetts computer manufacturer, registers Symbolics.com.

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1990: Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML), giving rise to the World Wide Web.

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1999: The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires.

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CONCLUSION

COMPUTERS HAVE EVOLVED OVER TIME.

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