Elementary Computer History

A Short History of Computers

Abacus 3000 BC

TVs had vacuum tubes also

ENIAC 1946

Transitors

Personal Computers

Computer Programming Languages

Internet & Applications• 1963 Graphical User Interface

– Mouse, Hypertext, Outlining, Douglas Engelbart– Sketchpad, first interactive drawing program, Ivan Sutherland

• 1969 ARPANET connected 4 computers– University of California at Los Angeles– SRI (in Stanford)– University of California at Santa Barbara– University of Utah

• 1972: The first e-mail program• 1973: TCP/IP• 1976: Ethernet• 1993: World Wide Web created• 1995: Shockwave & Flash first released• 1998: Google website launched• 2004: FlickR website launched• 2005: YouTube website launched• 2007: Shoes released!