By Chou Khamkeuang
1725 – Basile Bouchon was the first person to use punched holes used in the control of a loom
1804 – Joseph Marie Jacquard automated the loom operation. Punch cards were linked to chains, and each card held instructions for shedding and selecting the shuttle for a single pass.
1832 – Semyon Korsakov was the first to use punched cards for information storage and searching purposes.
1890 – Herman Hollerith invented the tabulating machine used for the 1890 US Census. Tabulating machines basically helped summarized information stored on punched cards. Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Company merged into a company that was eventually called International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924.
1922 – First cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors technology (cathode ray rube)
1945 – The idea of hypertext is credited to Vannevar Bush’s MEMEX idea where documents are linked to other related documents
1946 – ENIAC used a teletype machine to input data
1962 – First graphical video game was probably SpaceWar by Slug Russel
1962 – First computer joysticks
1963 – Ivan Sutherland demonstrated with SketchPad the manipulation of objects using a light-pen including grabbing objects, moving them, changing and changing size at MIT.
1963 – Several Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems were presented
1963 – First 3D system by TImothy JOhnson’s 3D CAD system
1965-68 – Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality research by Ivan Sutherland
1965 – The mouse was developed at Stanford Research Laboratory
1965 – Ted Nelson coined the term “hypertext”
1965 – First touchscreen
1966-67 – William Newman created the first “widget” at Imperial College, London
1966-67 – First User Interface Management System (UIMS) by William Newman
1968 – Multiple tiled windows demonstrated in Engelbart’s NLS
1968 – Demonstrated remote participation of multiple people at various sites
1968 – A wooden mouse was built and used to draw all the frames of a movie by Ken Pulfer and Grant Bechthold
1968 – FRESS project used multiple windows and integrated text and graphics
1969 – The idea of overlapping windows proposed by Alan Kay at the University of Texas
1969 – Eletronic mail enabled by ARPAnet
1973 – Email used with Ethernet
1974 – EMACS text editor
1974 – COPILOT
1874-75 – first computer painting program was probably Dick Shoup’s “Superpaint”
1975 – David Canfield Smith coined the term “icons” at Stanford
1975 – First portable computer called IBM 5100
1976 – PROMIS was the first HYpertext system, used to link patient and patient care information at the University of Vermont’s medical center
1976 – First popular commercial game was Pong
1977-78 – VisiCalc developed by Frankston and Bricklin for the Apple II was initially the first spreadsheet
1979 – Some of the first commercial uses of windows were on Lips Machines Inc. (LMI) and Symbolics Lisp Machines
1970-85 – Steamer project was probably the first Interface Builder
1972 – First smartwatch called Pulsar
1981 – Xerox Star, uses mouse commercially, windows
1982 – Cedar Window Manager was the first major wiled window manager
1982 – Apple Lisa, uses mouse commercially, uses windows
1983 – Hyperties was the first system that allowed highlited items in a text to be clickedon and to go to other pages
1984 – Apple Macintosh, uses mouse commercially, windows
1984 – X Windows System was developed at MIT
1984 – First Mac operating system called System 1
1985 – Release of Microsoft 1.0 their first operating system
1986 – IBM released the Model M keyboard that resembles what most keyboards look like today
1987 – First tablet called Linus Write-Top
1988 – Apple HyperCard brought the idea of Hyperties to a wider audience
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in CERN
1992 – First smartphone invented by IBM
1993 – Debian a Linux operating systems first released
1994 – IBM makes the first smartphone available for purchase called the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC)
1999 – First BlackBerry called BlackBerry 850
2007 – Apple iPhone released
2008 – First Tesla Roadster electric vehicle