Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΩΝ ΣΕ ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ

1944
Manchester - Colossus Mark 1
The world's first programmable, digital, electronic, computing device.


1946
University of Pennsylvania - ENIAC
The first general-purpose electronic computer.



1964
IBM - System/360
It was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific (1 MIPS, 8Kb to 8Mb Ram, 256Kb main storage)


1969
University of California
ARPANET
The first link between University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute (22:30 hours on October 29, 1969) The NET is born


1971
Intel - 4004
The world's first commercial microprocessor


1979
Intel - 8086
The first x86 chips (5Mhz - 10 Mhz)


1976
Cray Research - Cray
The most successful supercomputer in history (80Mhz, 800 MFLOPS)




1982
Sinclair Research Ltd (UK) - ZX Spectrum
The first mainstream audience home computers in the UK (Z80@3,5Mhz - 16Kb or 48Kb RAM)


1983
IBM - PC / XT
First IBM PC to come with an internal hard drive as standard

1985
Intel - 80386
32-bit microprocessor for personal computers (12Mhz - 40Mhz 11.4 MIPS at 33 MHz)

1989
Cern Geneva Switzerland - World Wide Web
Internet with today form was invented by Sir Tim Berner-Lee

1990
SONY and Philips - CD-ROM
The first generation optical disk 650Mb - 703Mb

1995
Microsoft - Windows 95

Microsoft starts to rule the world

1998
Stanford University in California
Google
The biggest search engine is born

2000
Intel - Pentium 4
The first modern desktop processor to implement simultaneous multithreading (1,3Ghz - 3,8Ghz)

2001
Microsoft - Windows XP
The merging of the Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/Me lines was finally achieved with Windows XP




2004
Harvard University - Facebook
The most used social network by worldwide monthly active users is born


2008
IBM - Roadrunner
Currently the world's fastest computer (129600 processors 100Terabyte memory. 560m2 1,71 petaflops)

2013
IBM - Sequoia
20 Petaflops (Human brain functional simulation)