History of Computers: A Brief Timeline

[rangerrebew]

History of Computers: A Brief Timeline
By Kim Ann Zimmermann, Live Science Contributor | September 6, 2017 10:10pm ET
 

The computer was born not for entertainment or email but out of a need to solve a serious number-crunching crisis. By 1880, the U.S. population had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S. Census results. The government sought a faster way to get the job done, giving rise to punch-card based computers that took up entire rooms.

https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html

[Fishrrman]

An interesting timeline, goes "further back" than I had previously thought.

A couple of things they left out:

- 1984 -- Apple introduces the Macintosh. It literally changed the way ordinary people interacted with their computers.

- 1995 (if I recall) -- Netscape browser introduced. I believe it pushed modern web browsing into the limelight.

[endicom]

An interesting timeline, goes "further back" than I had previously thought.

A couple of things they left out:

- 1984 -- Apple introduces the Macintosh. It literally changed the way ordinary people interacted with their computers.

- 1995 (if I recall) -- Netscape browser introduced. I believe it pushed modern web browsing into the limelight.

Left out is minicomputers, a major industry that came and went with a hush.

[Elderberry]

The Mosaic browser came out in 1993 followed by Netscape in 94.

[Elderberry]

I bought my first microcomputer in 1982 for a microcomputer applications course. I only ran Assembly and Basic on it. But I added a full size keyboard, Monitor, and 300 Baud Modem. Started at Ford Aerospace as a NASA Integrator in 83. When I'd hear of someone having a computer at home, I'd ask what they did with it. I'd get answers like, keep my recipes on it, or reconcile my bank account. Things I could do with a notebook. It was when we had our first child in 86, that I knew I needed a computer to raise our children in the computer age with. I picked up a used 386 for a couple hundred, that a few years earlier were going for 3,000. I remember running on USENET, BBS, ARCHIE, and GOPHER. And probably more I've long since forgot. It was access to information that really hooked me then on computers.