Year Event 1994 In December 1994, the very first version of USB was released as USB 0.8. Considered a pre-release version, it was not available to the commercial market. 1995 USB 0.9 was released in April 1995 and like USB 0.8, it was a pre-release version and not available commercially. 1995 Another pre-release version, USB … Read more
Year Event 1890 Herman Hollerith developed a method for machines to record and store information onto punch cards to be used for the US census. He later formed the company we know as IBM today. 1946 Freddie Williams applies for a patent on his CRT (cathode ray tube) storing device in December. The device that … Read more
Year Event 1823 Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius discovers silicon (Si), which today is the basic component of processors. 1903 Nikola Tesla patented electrical logic circuits called “gates” or “switches” in 1903. 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the first transistor at the Bell Laboratories on December 23, 1947. 1948 John Bardeen, Walter … Read more
Year Event 1981 The first motherboard, originally called a “planar,” was used in the IBM Personal Computer. 1984 The AT, or Full AT, motherboard form factor was introduced by IBM in August 1984. 1985 IBM introduced the Baby AT motherboard form factor in 1985. 1987 The LPX motherboard form factor was developed by Western Digital … Read more
The first monitors use CRT technology (cathode ray rube) and firstly made in 1922. The earlier commercial version was produced in 1954. This technology used for 50 years until 2000 when the LCD technology replace it. The CRT technology used by computer monitors, and also for televisions too. Approximetly in 2000 the bigger monitor manufacturers start to … Read more
The history of the modern computer keyboard begins with a direct inheritance from the invention of the typewriter. It was Christopher Latham Sholes who, in 1868, patented the first practical modern typewriter. Soon after, in 1877, the Remington Company began mass marketing the first typewriters. After a series of technological developments, the typewriter gradually evolved into the standard … Read more
Today, the mouse is an essential input device for all modern computers but it wasn’t so long ago that computers had no mouse and no graphical user interface. Data was entered by typing commands on a keyboard. The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964 and consisted of a wooden shell, circuit board and … Read more