Computing Timeline

Add your items to the list of events below. You must do the following for each item:

• Preserve the order of events
• Include the year
• Provide at least one reputable reference. Please remember that Wikipedia is not a valid reference.
• Include your first and last name.
• If someone else has added an event already, please make any modifications that you see fit and then add your name next to the other person's name.
• DO NOT copy items from Keith Pray's timeline.

Date	Description	References	Name
2000 BC	The abacus is invented. A frame made out of wood holding rods with sliding beads on them, used to aid in arithmetic calculations.	http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/history.html	Joshua Cuneo
1640	Pascal created the first mechanical calculator	Quinn M. Ethics for the information age. 7th ed. Pearson; 2016:6.	Ally Howell
1836	The ability of the Telegraph is demonstrated by Samuel Morse by using Morse code	http://www.wrvmuseum.org/morsecodehistory.htm	Jason Abel
1860's	The first commercially successful typewriter invented by Christopher Latham Sholes with help from Carlos Gidden, Chief Lieutenant	http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept12/2012/10/28/the-typewriter-a-remarkable-impact-on-communication/	Jason Abel
1832	The Military Enigma was announced and only available to the German Army	http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/hist.htm	Jason Abel
1942	The first all-electronic computer was built by John Anastoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University	https://www.ece.iastate.edu/the-department/history/history-of-computing/	Jordan Burklund
1844	The Colossus, an electronic digital computer used to break the German Lorenz SZ-40 cipher machine, finally cracked its first message	http://cryptomuseum.com/crypto/colossus/index.htm	Jason Abel
1865	The concept of Email was introduced where you leave messages in another person's file directory for them to see later	http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html	Jason Abel
1872	Email sent over computer networks was created by Ray Tomlinson	http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html	Jason Abel
1915	Ford Instruments MK1 Rangekeep created	https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2015-10/armaments-innovations-revolutionary-rangekeeper	Alex Hard
1923	Enigma Machine Created	http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/enigma	Alex Hard
1943	4 wheel Bombe Machine used to defeat Enigma code	http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/bombe/	Alex Hard
1972	Alan C. Kay releases his paper titled "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages", which is one of the first proposals for portable, paperless, and battery powered computers, leading to laptops and tablets becoming common consumer items.	http://history-computer.com/Library/Kay72.pdf	Jordan Burklund
1975	MITS Altair 8800 is released. At $297 for a kit, this is one of the first computers that is accessible to hobbyists. A BASIC interpreter written for this device also became the foundations of Microsoft.	http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/	Jordan Burklund
1986	National Science Foundation funds a 56Kbps cross-country network backbones	http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/History.html	Joshua Cuneo
1991	Linus Torvaldis releases the first version of the Linux Kernel.	https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_gnulinux.htm	Jordan Burklund
2008	The first Android based smartphone is released to consumers.	https://www.androidcentral.com/android-pre-history	Jordan Burklund
1957	Air Material Command and the Aircraft Industries Association collaborated with MIT to produce the first Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine.	http://machinist.org/cnc-computer-numerical-control/the-invention-of-cnc-machining/	Cory Brolliar
1961	The first industrial robot (Unimate 1900) was put to market by George Devol	https://www.robotics.org/joseph-engelberger/unimate.cfm	Cory Brolliar
1962	Ivan Sutherland presents the first graphical user interface which used a light pen to manipulate objects displayed on a CRT.	https://3d-innovations.com/blog/the-history-of-computer-aided-design-cad/	Cory Brolliar
1968	Ivan Sutherland (known as the "father of computer graphics") created the first Augmented Reality technology.	https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-mainstreaming-of-augmented-reality-a-brief-history	Cory Brolliar
1983	Charles Hull produces the first 3D printer technology	https://www.autodesk.com/redshift/history-of-3d-printing/	Cory Brolliar
2011	John Deere Releases GreenStar system for farmers	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.wpi.edu/document/1566333/	Ally Howell	}