Saturday, July 23, 2011

Years To Remember 3

There are many years to remember in the past for their special events.In this post I am trying to introduce some of those memorable years to the visitors.This is the third post of this type.These datas are collected from various compititive exam practice sets. Stay in touch for this kind of post in future.

  • Microsoft Corporation Established on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
  • Dell Inc. was established by Michael Dell on November 4, 1984.
  • Apple Inc. Founded on April 1, 1976 by the founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
  • Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985.
  • International Business Machines (IBM) was established on June 16, 1911.
  • in 1996, Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
  • In 1997, Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
  • Microsoft Corporation invented DOS (Disc Operating System) in the year 1982.
  • Dr. Edgar Frank Codd invented the first database in the year 1996.
  • The inventor of fax machine was Alexander Bain. He invented in the year 1843.
  • The first mouse that is wheel based was invented by Douglas Engelbart in the year 1963.
  • Floppy disk was invented by Dr. Nakamats in the year of 1951.
  • HTML stands for hyper text markup language. This language is used very often in the WebPages was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1990.
  • James Gosling invented java in the year 1994. It is developed by sun Microsystems. It is an object-oriented higher level programming language.
  • An object oriented script language was developer in the year 1995 by Brendan Eich of Netscape Communication Corporation. It was initially names as Mocha, again as live script later as JavaScript.
  • Keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the year 1875.
  • Keys were invented by Linus Yale Jr, a mechanical engineer, in the year 1862.
  • Linus Torvalds invented linux in the year 1991.
  • Buyukkokten invented orkut in the year 2004.It is a Social networking site.
  • Oracle was invented by Bob oats and Larry Ellison in the year 1977.
  • The very first super computer was introduced by Seymour Cray in 1960 at Control Data Corporation.
  • From 1985-90 new designs of super computer were introduced.
  • UNIX is one of the operating system of computer. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson invented UNIX in the year 1969.
  • Ubuntu, an open source operating system was developed by Mark Shuttleworth. It first release was in the year 2004.
  • Rambaugh, Jacobson and Booch invented uml in the year 1994. Full form of uml is unified modeling language.
  • Visual basic was invented by Microsoft in 1987. It is one of the world’s most widely used program development software.
  • XML was developed by World Wide Web Consortium in the year 1966 under Sun Microsystems.

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