Now the computer is a part of human gadgets and tools. Without it, he is not able to move around and do his regular task. The computer which influenced man had a long history, during its journey in development it has changed according to the needs and application of human activity. Every country wants to grow and become in developing the country for this these countries need a supercomputer this is what one of its importance in the world now. Let have look at the computer timeline which made it evolve to the present day. The following can give some details on the evolution of computers.
Year
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Inventor/organization/computers
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Inventions /Application
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1642
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Blaise Pascal, France
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makes a numerical wheel calculator, an early mechanical adding machine
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1694
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Gottfried Von Leibniz, Germany
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makes a machine that can multiply numbers
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1820
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Charles Xavier de Colmar, France
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Makes and Arithometer that can add, subtract, multiply and divide
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1822
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Charles Babbage, England
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Difference engine
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1829
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Wheatstone
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Used punched paper tape to store data
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1834
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Charles Babbage
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Conceives the analytical engine
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1889
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Hollerith’s
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Punchcard machine used in US census
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1928
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IBM
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80-column punch card
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1944
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Harvard Mark I
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First digital computer
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1952
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Univac computer
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Accurately predicts the US presidential election winner
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1953
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IBM701
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First IBM electronic digital computer
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1956
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Artificial Intelligence
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First hard disk drive
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1958
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Game
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First chess game between the computer and human
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1960
|
-
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the USA has 6000 computers
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1963
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ASCII(American standard code for information technology )
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Established
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1967
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IBM
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Floppy disk
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1970
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Douglas Engelbart
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First computer mouse
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1971
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Intel (Wang 1200)
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First computer chip, first word processor, a microprocessor
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1972
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Ray Tomlinson
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Email invented
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Pong
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First electronic video game
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1975
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William H.Gates
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Microsoft established
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1976
|
-
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First apple computer
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-
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Cary-1, first supercomputer
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1979
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BBN services
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First commercial bulletin board
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1980
|
-
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First lap top
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1981
|
-
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First Nintendo home video game,
Microsoft introduced software to IBM
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1982
|
-
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200 computers connected to the internet
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1984
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Apple
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Apple Macintosh computer launched
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1985
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Microsoft
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Windows 1.0
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1986
|
-
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USA have > 30 million computer
|
1988
|
-
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USA have 4.7 million microcomputer,
120,000 minicomputers and 11,500 main frame computers
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1989
|
-
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100,00 hosts on internet
|
1990
|
-
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First palmtop computer
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1991
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Jean Armour Polly
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Surfing the net
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1993
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Mosaic
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First graphical internet
|
1994
|
-
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135 million PCs worldwide
|
1995
|
-
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Microsoft internet explorer
|
1999
|
-
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150 million internet users world wide
|
2000
|
-
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Dot com crash
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2002
|
-
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i Pod digital music player
|
2005
|
-
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200 million broadband lines world wide
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2006
|
-
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1 billion internet users
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