Year
What is it?
Revolution
Why is it
important?
Timeline
Interesting fact
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Abacus
600B.
C
The abacus was one
of the earliest
counting devices in
Asia and parts of
Europe. (Error!
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It is a minimal
computer. It used to
calculate the location
of the celestial body.
Because it is the
first calculation
tool.
Chinese people
invented it.
Antikythra
mechanism
100B.
C
Because it’s oldest
computer in the
world
John Napier,
1612
Calculation
Tables
Joseph-Marie
1801
Jacquard,
Punchcard
controlled loom
Charles Babbage, 1822
Difference Engine
It is a tool to calculate
the multiplication and
division.
It is a machine loom,
just like a type. It can
type some picture on
the paper by slotting.
It is a machine that
can calculate and type
without people’s
control.
Because It can be
more convenient to
calculate
Because it is the
first type in the
world.
Antikythera
mechanism is
one of the most
mysterious
inventions in
history of human
civilization.
It is a form and
full of numbers.
Samuel Morse,
Telegraph
1809
It is the basic
electronic community
telegraph.
It is the first
telegraph.
Sir Charles
Wheatstone,
paper tapes
1838
It is a device that
accurately measured
electrical resistance
and became widely
used in laboratories.
Sholes, Glidden
and Soule,
typewriter
1873
It is the first
commercially
typewriter.
It is the first
application of
paper tapes as a
medium for the
preparation,
storage, and
transmission of
data
It is the first
commercially
typewriter.
It represents that
the significant first
step for human to
get in the area of
technique.
It used cards to
control the
weaving looms.
English
government
found that the
whole plan cost
￡17,500 in
1842.
Samuel Morse
was the Father of
American
painter and
telegraph.
To content the
customers, each
data row could
represent one of
32 different
characters.
It included a
cylindrical platen
and a four-
Herman
Hollerith,
Tabulating
Machine
Colossus
1890
Bell Labs, the
Transistor
1925
1944
It is an electromechanical
machine used to assist
in summarizing
information
It is the first
programmable
electronic digital
computer, used for
code breaking in
WWII
It is the
predecessor of
computer.
It is the first
electric computer.
In the second
world war it was
used to break
the code in
England.
The first patent for the
It is used in many
electric devices.
There were 8
nobel economics
prize had been
born in bell labs.
field-effect transistor
principle was filed in
Canada by AustrianHungarian physicist Julius
Edgar Lilienfeld
Texas
1958
Instruments and
Fairchild
Semiconductor,
Integrated Circuit
IBM 360
1964
Word Processor
invented
1969
ARPANET
It is the first
integrated circuit
used for business.
Dallas, Texas, in the
United States
multinational
companies
It was a mainframe
computer system family
announced by IBM
It is the word edit
system.
Bower Science
Award, first awarded
a computer scientist
It was the first
operational packet
switching networks
Intel, 1K RAM
CHIP (the 4004)
1971
It is the first tiny
processor in the
world.
Jonathan Titus,
Mark 8
BBN, Telnet
1974
This is a
microcomputer.
This is the first public
pocket data service.
Paul Allen and
Bill Gates invent
BASIC
1975
It is the first private
computer.
USENET
1979
It is a dispersed
computer
communication
1974
rowed qwerty
keyboard.
It was used to do
the population
census.
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A word processor is
an electronic device
or
a computer software
The U.S. Advanced
Research Projects
Agency (Advanced
Research Project
Agency) for short.
Intel 4004 is a 4bit central
processing
unit (CPU) released
by Intel
Corporation in 1971.
The world's first 8bit microprocessor
BBN Corp. is a
leading provider
of Internet
services and
networking services
BASIC is an
interpreted
programming
language
USENET is a
Paul Allen and Bill
Gates invent the
BASIC
system.
combination of
network-based
computers, these
computers are called
news server
TCP/IP
1983
It is the basic contract
to build the internet.
Apple Macintosh
1984
Microsoft
Windows 1.0
1987
It is a computer
announced by Apple
Computer Inc.
It is the first control
system that windows
did.
The Internet
1969
Apple iPod
2000
Apple iPhone
2007
Amazon Kindle
2007
Apple iPad
2010
3D Printing
2012
The Cloud
2012
It is a vast computer
network linking smaller
computer networks
worldwide.
It is a media player.
It is a smart phone
that announced by
Apple Computer,Inc.
It is a tablet
computer; usually it is
for Kindle reading.
A tablet computer
announced by Apple
Computer,Inc.
It is type that can type
things in 3D.
People can find some
objects on the
internet, and
download them. The
place to save them
called the cloud.
TCP is responsible
for identifying
transmission
problems
Apple Macintosh
changed the laptop
industry
Microsoft's first
personal computer
operating platform
for graphical user
interface attempt.
Apple Ipod changed
the MPS industry
Apple iPhone
changed the mobile
phone industry
Apple iPad Tablet
PC industry has
changed
Manufacturing of
some products,
which means the
technology, is
popular.
Cloud computing is
based on the
increase of
Internet-related
services
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