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Computer and Internet Evolution


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
Inventor/organization/computers
Inventions /Application
1642

Blaise Pascal, France
makes a numerical wheel calculator, an early mechanical adding machine
1694
Gottfried Von Leibniz, Germany
makes a machine that can multiply numbers
1820
Charles Xavier de Colmar, France
Makes and Arithometer that can add, subtract, multiply and divide
1822
Charles Babbage, England
Difference engine
1829
Wheatstone
Used punched paper tape to store data
1834
Charles Babbage
Conceives the analytical engine
1889
Hollerith’s
Punchcard machine used in US census
1928
IBM
80-column punch card
1944
Harvard Mark I
First digital computer
1952
Univac computer
Accurately predicts the US presidential election winner
1953
IBM701
First IBM electronic digital computer
1956
Artificial Intelligence
First hard disk drive
1958
Game
First chess game between the computer and human
1960
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the USA has 6000 computers
1963
ASCII(American standard code for information technology )
Established
1967
IBM
Floppy disk
1970
Douglas Engelbart
First computer mouse
1971
Intel (Wang 1200)
First computer chip, first word processor, a microprocessor
1972
Ray Tomlinson
Email invented
Pong
First electronic video game
1975
William H.Gates
Microsoft established

1976
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First apple computer

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Cary-1, first supercomputer
1979
BBN services
First commercial bulletin board
1980
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First lap top
1981
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First Nintendo home video game,
Microsoft introduced software to IBM
1982
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200 computers connected to the internet
1984
Apple
Apple Macintosh computer launched
1985
Microsoft
Windows 1.0
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
1989
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100,00 hosts on internet
1990
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First palmtop computer
1991
Jean Armour Polly
Surfing the net
1993
Mosaic
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
2002
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i Pod digital music player
2005
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200 million broadband lines world wide
2006
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1 billion  internet users