"The begin of the journey is right from here..."
The significant growth of average education level ensure the spreading of Personal Computers.
Data from US Census Bureau
Alan's Imaginary Future
In 1960s, computer scientist Alan Kay promoted an small, slim and portable devices called Dynabook...
1963
The Introduce of ASCII
ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, use 128 different binary strings to represent...
The integrated board allowed smaller size of computer, which became the base of PC
1968
AGC Was Introduced
Shrink the size as large as 7 refrigerators to less than 1-foot cube. It was invented and used for Project Apollo. One of the earliest used of integrated circuits. This is an unintentional PC model.
1972
The C Programming Language Was Released
Dennis Ritchie and his team created C based on the earlier language BCPL. It's the foundation of most programming languages today.
1975
The MITS Altair was the first 8080 based kit microcomputer
It was first introduced in the January 1975 as a construction project. It uses the system “BASIC” came from Microsoft. First to be named as “Personal Computer”.
1977
Apple's First All-in-one Computer
Sold complete with a main logic board, switching power supply, keyboard, case, manual, game paddles, and cassette tape containing the game Breakout,...
1977: The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web developed at the European Organization in1977. Tim Berners-Lee understood the importance of sharing information around the world.
1978
First Computer In The White House
First computer was installed in the White House during Jimmy Carter’s Presidency. Staffers were given terminals to access a shared Hewlett-Packard HP3000 computer, and the technology department acquired a Xerox Alto for the Oval Office.
1983
First Commercial GUI PC: Click it!
Lisa is the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). GUI was an important milestone in computing because Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh would soon adopt it as their user interfaces.
Bringing Productivity to Everyone
Microsoft published Word, first named “Multi-Tool Word”. Microsoft soon distributed 450,000 disks containing a demonstration version of its Word program to the magazine for attracting more attention. It competed with WordPerfect for market share as a word processing program. It became global standard until Microsoft introduced Windows.
1983
Hello! Macintosh
The Macintosh was the first computer with a graphical user interface and mouse-driven system based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor...
1983
ARM: The Future.
ARM RISC microprocessor is first used in the company's Archimedes computer system. It facilitated computing by its high-performance processors, low power and systems-on-chip (SoC).
ARM is mainly used on phone and is different from classic x86 structure that is still the main stream for PC. However, it would take over the PC mafrket in the futrue
2001
The pioneer of GUI
Mac OS X was published. OS X was a more stable and reliable platform. It can run multiple application efficiently at the same time..
The result of invention of PC made approaching newest technology by everyone possible.