A brief history of personal computing, up to 2008...

1. The History of Computers

2. The First computer = People

3. An abacus

5. the Harvard Mark I computer (1944)

6. The IBM 7094
a typical mainframe computer

7. Pong (1966)

8. Intel 8008 microprocessor (1972)

9. The Altair 8800, the first PC

10. Apple 1 (1976)

11. The Commodore PET
(Personal Electronic Transactor), 1977

12. Apple II, 1977

13. The 5 1/4" flexible disk drive
and diskette, 1978

14. Sony introduced and shipped the first 3 1/2"
floppy drives and diskettes in 1981

15. 1980
• Seagate created the first hard disk drive
for microcomputers. The disk held 5
megabytes of data, five times as much as
a standard floppy disk.
• The first optical data storage disk had 60
times the capacity of a 5 1/4-inch floppy
disk was developed by Philips.

16. The original IBM Personal Computer (PC)
introduced 1981
It ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor
and used Microsoft´s MS-DOS operating system.

17. Commodore 64 (1982)

18. Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first
successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic
user interface, with a single $1.5 million
commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl.

19. First CD introduced (1982)

20. IBM released its PC-AT based on the Intel
80286 chip (1984)

21. CD-ROM is developed by Philips and Sony.
Grolier´s Electronic Encyclopedia came out
in 1985.

22. Compaq beat IBM to the market when it
announced the Deskpro 386, the first computer on
the market to use Intel´s new 80386 chip, a 32-bit
microprocessor.

23. 1987, IBM introduced its PS/2 machines, the first IBMs to
include Intel´s 80386 chip. It made the 3 1/2-inch floppy
disk drive and video graphics array standard for IBM
computers. They also released a new operating system,
OS/2, at the same time.

24. Intel released the 80486 chip; the
original Sim City released (1989)

25. 1989
• Gameboy in the
market

26. Windows 3.0 (1990)

27. Handheld Computers

28. Linux operating system is
introduced (1991)

29. The Pentium microprocessor is
released in 1993.
• id Software released Doom
in late 1993. A very popular
first-person shooter-style
game

30. 1994 (the internet era)
Netscape and Yahoo are founded

31. 1994
• Bluetooth developed.
• Bluetooth is an industrial
specification for wireless
personal area networks
(PANs). Bluetooth provides a
way to connect and exchange
information between devices
such as mobile phones,
laptops, personal computers,
printers, GPS receivers, digital
cameras, and video game
consoles over a secure,
globally unlicensed short-range
radio frequency.

32. SONY Playstation (1995)

33. Windows 95 released (1995)
• support for 255-character
mixed-case long filenames
•preemptively multitasked
protected-mode
•32-bit applications

34. 1995 - eBay founded
MP3 format introduced

35. 1996
• Hotmail was commercially launched in US, It’s
the first web-based email.
• icq (first version) came out.
• First DVD movie hit the market.

36. Intel introduced Pentium MMX and
Pentium II chips (1997).

37. 1996
• The Tamagotchi -
a handheld digital
pet created. It sold
over 10 million unit
worldwide.

38. IBM's Deep Blue
became the first
computer to beat a
reigning World
Chess Champion,
Garry Kasparov, in
a full chess match.
(1997)

39. iMac introduced in 1998
founded.
IBM
debuted
USB
flash
drive.

40. 1998
• FAT32 file system
introduced in
Windows 98

41. 1999
• AMD released K6-III 400 MHz version,
later the same year, they released Athlon
750 MHz version.

42. 1999
• The scare of the
Y2K bug

43. 2000
• AMD beat Intel to release the first 1 Gz
chip!
• To fight back, Intel
release the Pentium IV
later in the year.
• SONY Playstation 2
released.

44. 2001
• iPod first in the
market
• Windows XP
released.
• Xbox released.
• USB 2.0
introduced.

45. 2002
• Western Digital
announces the
Caviar 200 GB
hard drive, the
industry's first
200 GB drive at
7200 rpm.

46. 2002
• Excite@Home, one
of the largest ISP's
files for bankruptcy
and closes its doors
March, 02, 2002.
• PayPal is acquired
by eBay.

47. 2003
• The first computer is infected with the
spybot worm on April 16, 2003.

48. Facebook launched (2004)
Google announced Gmail

49. IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group
for $1.75 billion on December 08, 2004

50. 2005
• AMD starts shipping their first dual-core
64-bit desktop processor, the Athlon 64
X2.
• YouTube founded.
• Xbox 360 introduced.

51. 2006
• Intel introduces the Core 2 processors
• Playstation 3 and Wii released
• BluRay and HDDVD introduced

52. 2007
• First Blu-Ray writer by Samsung

53. 2007
• iPhone released

54. 2007
• Windows Vista released

55. 2008
• HDDVD quit, only
one standard left
– The BluRay

56. 2008
• Mac Book Air – world’s thinnest laptop
computer

57. Google browser (2008)
Chrome

58. Notebook with Atom chip

60. • Dual screen

61. The future…
• USB 3.0 in 2009 (10 times faster than
USB 2.0)
• Ultra thin & flexible screen

62. Cloud Computing
• Web applications, no need to install on
user computers.
1995

63. Lucid Touch Screen

64. Windows 7

65. That’s all for now!
Last updated Dec 20th
, 2008