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1801: Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French weaver and merchant, develops a loom that employs wooden punch cards to weave fabric designs automatically, planting the seeds for early computers.
1890: Herman Hollerith, an inventor, creates a punch card system to help the United States government calculate the census.
1937: American physicist, inventor, and professor, John Vincent Atanasoff, lays the groundwork for the first electronic digital computer in a grant proposal.
1941: German inventor Konrad Zuse creates Z3, the world’s first digital computer.
1943: University of Pennsylvania professors John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert create a large digital computer powered by 18,000 vacuum tubes.
1946: After leaving the University of Pennsylvania, Mauchly and Eckert secure funding from the Census Bureau to build the world’s first commercial computer for businesses and the government.
1951: Christopher Strachey writes the first successful artificial intelligence (AI) program.
1952: IBM releases its first commercial scientific computer called the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.
1953: Grace Hopper, a computer scientist, devises the theory for the programming language FLOW-MATIC. The programming language is later expanded to create the high-level programming language COBOL.
1953: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory starts the world’s first computer science degree program.
1964: Douglas Engelbart, with assistance from Bill English, creates a prototype for the first computer mouse.
Apollo 11, the American spaceflight that carried the first humans to land on the moon in 1969, couldn't have done so without its state-of-the-art computer.
1969: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is founded by Walter Jeremiah (“Jerry”) Sanders and seven others.
1970: Intel introduces the first commercially available dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) integrated circuit (IC), called the Intel 1103.
1971: IBM introduces the world to an 8-inch flexible plastic memory disk that everyone will eventually call the "floppy disk."
1972: Sherwin Gooch invents the first sound card, the Gooch Synthetic Woodwind.
1973: A team at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in California creates the Ethernet.
1976: Dataram shows off the world’s first solid-state drive.
1976: Two college dropouts introduce the world to the first computer with a single-circuit board.
1978: The White House installs its first computers, the Hewlett-Packard HP3000.
1979: Toshi Doi and Kees Schouhamer Immink work on a task force for Sony and Phillips to develop the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA). A few years later, the CD-DA evolves into the CD-ROM.
1980: Atari Inc. releases Battlezone, the first popular game to use 3D graphics.
1981: Hot on the heels of Apple, IBM releases the Acorn, with an Intel chip, two floppy drives, and a color monitor.
1982: Time Magazine recognizes the fast-changing landscape and names the computer as the “Machine of the Year” in place of the “Man of the Year.” 1982: Japanese company Denon develops the CD-ROM and introduces it to Sony two years later.
1983: Home productivity hits a milestone as Microsoft releases Word 1.0 for Xenix and MS-DOS.
1984: CompuServe launches Islands of Kesmai, the first commercial multiplayer online role-playing game.
1985: The first edition of the C++ programming language debuts.
1985: Microsoft launches a Graphical User Interface (GUI) as an extension of MS-DOS. It calls it Windows.
1986: Two brothers in Pakistan running a computer store create the first PC virus called Brain.
1989: British scientist Tim-Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web (WWW) to help share information between scientists worldwide.
1989: Nintendo releases an 8-bit handheld gaming console called the Game Boy.
1991: The world’s first website is ready to launch.
1991: Finnish student Linus Torvalds creates a new operating system kernel.
1992: The evolution of Windows continues with the launch of Windows 3.1.
1993: Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem create graphics chips company NVIDIA.
1994: Sony Computer Entertainment achieves a milestone in console gaming with the release of the PlayStation.
1995: Microsoft debuts Windows 95, a significant step up from the Windows 3x series, introducing many features still around in the latest iteration of the operating system.
1995: 3DFX releases a VGA 3D accelerator add-in card called the Voodoo Graphics.
1996: Uh-oh, ICQ, the first instant messaging service to gain worldwide popularity, hits the Internet.
1996: Two Ph.D. students at Stanford University named Larry Page and Sergey Brin, start a research project.
1997: A committee agrees on a name for an official wireless standard, leading everyone to ask: “What does WiFi stand for?” 1997: NVIDIA launches the RIVA series of graphics processors.
1998: Apple launches a consumer desktop for $1,299 called the iMac.
1999: NVIDIA launches the landmark GeForce 256 GPU, offering top 3D graphics quality.
1999: Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, the first commercial camera phone, debuts in Japan.
1999: AMD gives Intel something to think about with the release of the Athlon processor.
2001: IBM introduces the world's first multicore processor.
2001: Microsoft releases the Xbox to compete with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Nintendo’s GameCube.
2003: AMD ships the first x86-based 64-bit processor.
2003: Android Inc. starts work on an operating system for digital cameras that changes to an operating system for smartphones a year later.
2004: After feeling frustrated with the performance of antivirus software on his mother’s computer, Marcin Kleczynski informally establishes Malwarebytes Inc.
2004: Firefox 1.0 launches and earns 100 million downloads in a year.
They’re called the Pentium D. 2005: Three former employees of PayPal, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, create a platform for sharing videos called YouTube.
2005: The first dual-core chips for x86-based computers hit the market.
2005: Google buys Android for $50 million as part of its expansion plans.
2006: Intel introduces a quad-core CPU. 2006: Apple launches a new Macintosh notebook called the MacBook.
2006: Malwarebytes releases anti-malware software to defend computers from different types of potentially unwanted programs.
2006: Google makes its second excellent acquisition when it buys YouTube for $1.6 billion.
2007: Microsoft launches the well-received Windows 7 operating system.
2007: Apple introduces the world to the groundbreaking iPhone.
2007: HP is one of the first companies to release a smart TV for the masses.
2008: Google launches a cross-platform web browser called Google Chrome.
Fixed: Windows Server 2008 scans can crash when scanning .lmk files
2009: The first Samsung Galaxy goes on sale, starting a mobile phone rivalry with the iPhone.
2010: Apple acquires the voice assistant program Siri for its products.
2010: Apple introduces its tablet computer, the iPad.
2011: Google launches a low-cost light laptop that relies on an Internet connection and cloud services called the Chromebook.
Updated Forensic Timeliner to include events for Windows 10 and Server 2012
2014: Amazon introduces the world to the AI-powered voice assistant, Alexa.
2015: Apple releases a small and powerful wearable device called the Apple Watch.
2016: Scientists create the first reprogrammable quantum computer.
2016: Niantic launches Pokémon GO. The game goes on to earn over 500 million downloads worldwide and helps promote augmented reality (AR) technology.
2016: Google releases its own AI-powered voice assistant.
Added support for Windows Server 2016 for management server and managed clients
2020: AMD releases the Threadripper 3990X, the world’s first 64-Core desktop processor.
2020: Sony and Microsoft launch the latest in video game consoles with the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X.
2021: Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg introduces the world to the Metaverse, a virtual universe with 3D spaces and environments for people and businesses.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperwise | 1988 | $310,809 | 5 | - |
| Leapfrog Technology Inc. | 2010 | $270,000 | 1 | - |
| Ascentis | 1984 | $21.4M | 420 | - |
| Citrix | 1989 | $3.2B | 9,000 | 6 |
| nQ Zebraworks | 2002 | $3.1M | 125 | - |
| Interface People | 2002 | $12.0M | 175 | - |
| Trading Technologies | 1994 | $26.0M | 350 | 12 |
| Kronos Incorporated | 1977 | $1.4B | 6,000 | 3 |
| ScienceSoft | 1989 | $20.0M | 700 | - |
| Revenera | 1987 | $280.0M | 1,153 | 5 |
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