Computer History

When was the Internet brought online and what was it called?

APRANET 1969

What was the first Apple computer called?

Apple 1 or Apple Computer 1 in 1976 by Steve Wozniak

When was Microsoft founded and by whom?

April 4, 1975, Albuquerque, NM Bill Gates, Paul Allen

What was the "Brain Virus"? How did it infect a computer?

Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus that was released in its first form in January 1986,[1] and is considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS. It infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. Brain was written by brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi,

Who is considered to be the "Father of Computers"

Charles Babbage

When did google first go online?

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California September 4, 1998, Menlo Park, CA

What was the first IBM computer called?

IBM PC 5150 (1981)

What was the first commercial home video game console? When was it release?

Magnavox Odyssey 1972

When did Pacman first hit the arcades? What was its original name?

May 22, 1980 Japan October 26, 1980 North America Called Puck Man developed by NAMCO

What company made the first laptop and when?

Portal R2E CCMC no screen just paper output.

When was the first handheld battery operated electronic calculator created?

Prototype "Cal Tech" 1967

What was the first smart phone and what operating system did it have?

Rob Stothard/Getty People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone.

. What was "Tandy's" first computer called? What company produced it?

Tandy TRS-80 1977 Radio Shack

What was the first cell phone made available to the public?

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. First commercially available handheld cellular mobile phone, 1984. (prototype April 4, 1973 - Martin Cooper)

What was the first "personal computer" ? Why was it developed and by whom?

The first personal computers, introduced in 1975, came as kits: The MITS Altair 8800

. What was the first website ever made? Who made it? What was its address? When was it published? Is it still published and working today?

The first web page went live on August 6, 1991. It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners YES it is still there

What year were the following programming languages first used and who was the developer?

a. Assembly Language - 1951 - Nathaniel Rochester b. FORTRAN - 1957 - John Backus c. COBOL - 1959 - Grace Hopper d. BASIC - 1964 - John Kemeny e. PASCAL - 1970 - Anders Hejisberg f. C - 1972 - Dennis Ritchie g. C++ - 1980 - Bjarne Stroustrup h. PERL - 1987 - Larry Wall i. PYTHON - 1991 - Guido van Rossum j. VISUAL BASIC - 1991 - Allan Cooper k. JAVA - 1995 - James Gosling l. ActionScript - 2000 - Macromedia by Gary Grossman m. C# - 2001 - MicroSoft Team led by Anders Hejisberg n. Scratch - 2002 - MIT Lifelong Kindergarten Group

What is a "computer punch card"?

piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions

What is Silicon Valley?

region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the Santa Clara Valley, which serves as the global center for high technology, venture capital, innovation, and social me