VISHWABHARTI

ACADEMY'S
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
AND POLYTECHNIC ,
AHMEDNAGAR.
ICT MICROPROJECT.
TOPIC :- "HISTORY OF COMPUTER
RESEARCH AND CREATE A TIMELINE OF
SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN THERE HISTORY
OF COMPUTER".

• COMPUTER WAS INVENTED BY

"CHARLES BABBAGE" IN 19th CENTURY
BETWEEN 1833 AND 1871.
• HE WORKED ON IT FOR ABOUT 40
YEARS.
• HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF INTEELIGENT
MACHINE.
TIMELINE OF SIGNIFICANCE
EVENT IN THERE HISTORY OF
COMPUTER.
• A Timeline of Computer History and Development
• Compared to other subjects, computer science is a subject
still in its infancy, but thanks to the innovations that have
been made since the 1800s, computer technology has grown
by leaps and bounds. Within two centuries, humans have
gone from doing everything manually to having pocket-sized
devices that can connect people around the world and
provide access to information that people in the past could
only dream of. It's important to reflect on the development
of computers and the history of computer science because it
offers context for the work of professionals of today.
• 1840s: Ada Lovelace, commonly called the first computer
programmer, first described how a routine could be
written for machine-based problem-solving. This was the
starting point for every development in the computing
field.
• 1890: Herman Hollerith developed a punch card system to
help the U.S. Census Bureau compile and process data on
millions of Americans. His system was the predecessor of
methods computers would later use, and it was the first
time an electronic device was used for tabulation. This
meant that census counting could be completed much
faster. The company Hollerith formed would go on to
become part of what would later be named IBM.
• 1936: Alan Turing developed the Turing Machine, a
machine that calculated numbers. This was the start of
both the computational science field and the theoretical
computer science field.
• 1938: Friends William Hewlett and David Packard
invented an audio oscillator, which would be used by
Disney during the production of Fantasia. The pair would
formally create Hewlett-Packard in 1939.
• 1941: World War II helped computing technology leap
forward, and countries all over the world began investing
money in creating their own computers.
• 1943: J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly began building the
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). It was big enough to fill a large
room, and programmers had to manually connect wires to perform calculations. The goal
was for the U.S. to use it to calculate the trajectories of rockets during World War II, but
it was not completed until 1945.
• 1947: Bell Telephone Laboratories created transistors to make electronics more powerful.
The inventors behind this innovation, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter
Brattain, won the Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor.
• 1948: Tom Kilburn created the first computer program that could be stored inside a
computer. Before this innovation, computer programmers had to manually program the
machines by moving wires to connect vacuum tubes. Now, a computer could store 2,048
bits of information for a few hours without any extra work.
• 1953: COBOL, the first computer language that could run on machines made by different
companies, was created by Grace Hopper. COBOL, which stands for "common business-
oriented language," was written to be intelligible by humans rather than being written in
machine language.
• 1958: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce had the idea to create an integrated
circuit capable of storing information. Using the transistor as a jumping-off
point, they created a computer chip made of silicon.
• 1961: George Forsythe came up with the term "computer science" to
describe the study of programming theory, data processing, numerical
analysis, and computer system design.
• 1962: Purdue University started the first college computer science
department. Students in that major used punch cards and flowcharts and
studied from textbooks the faculty created, since there were no official
textbooks about the subject yet.
• 1964: Douglas Engelbart created the computer mouse, which helped make
computers easier to use. He also built a graphical user interface (GUI) that
helped to shape those used in modern computers.
• 1970: The very first dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip was
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unveiled by a new company named Intel.
• 1971: The floppy disk was created by IBM, giving people a
way to store more data and the ability to take files from
place to place.
• 1974: Personal computers hit the market for the very first
time. The Altair was a build-it-yourself kit that cost $400.
Thousands of copies were sold.
• 1978: Visicalc, the first computerized spreadsheet
program, was introduced to the market.
• 1985: On March 15, years before the World Wide Web
made its formal debut, the first dot-com domain name
was registered by a small Massachusetts computer
manufacturer called Symbolics Inc.
• 1990: Tim Berners-Lee developed HyperText Markup Language
(HTML), which helped make the World Wide Web possible.
• 1999: The term "Wi-Fi" became part of computer lingo as users
gained the ability to connect to the Internet without wires.
• Today, computer technology has given us mobile devices, millions of
websites about everything under the sun, Bluetooth, artificial
intelligence, and even self-driving cars. And developers are
constantly working on the next big innovation in computing that will
change our lives.
Team members :- SHAIKH ALIYAN .
SAMARTH SHELKE.