Charless Babbage (UK) - (1791-1871) he first designed a "difference engine" an analytical engine - an all purpose calculating machine and a crude prototype of the modern day computer. All this took place during second quarter of the 19th Century. Considered as the "father of Computers".

Konarad Zuse, Germany in 1938.

Konrarad Zuse of Germany built the world's first functional programme controlled "Turing Complete" computer - the Z3- which became operational in 1941, an electro mechanical digital computer for designing missiles and air planes during WWII. He was also noted for the S2 computing machine considered as the world's first process controlled computer. He founded the world's earliest computer businesses in 1941 producing Z4 which became the world's first commercial computer.

Built a secret "code breaking computer" named COLOSSUS to decode German messages during WWII.

1946 - "ENIAC" was the first generation computer developed by John McCauchly and J. Presper Eckert. It was a huge machine.(ENIAC = Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).

He was the one to identify the "bit" as the fundamental unit of data and the basic unit of computation.

701 - the first electronic computer, shipped by IBM in 1953.

1956 - 305 RAMAC and TX - O, the first general purpose, programmable computer with transistors.

Jack Kilby of USA in 1958. For his invention of the "Microchip" (Integrated Circuit) in 1958 he received Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000. He is also the inventor of the hand held calculator and thermal printer.

1960 - came up with the first commercial modem, data phone, COBOL Designed for business use; LISP made its first computer language designed for writing artificial intelligence programmes.

1963

PDP 8 - 1965.

1967 by Wally Feruzeig, USA and Seymour Papert (South Africa)

Arpanet - 1970 (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), followed by Ethernet (1973) and Telenet (1974).

1972. Intel introduced "8008 microprocessor" which helped in speeding up the data processing.

"Microsoft" founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on 4.4.1975. Headquartered at Redmond, Washington.

Steve Wozniak - Apple I - a single board computer.

Cray I - a super computer, designed, manufactured and marked by Cray Research, Seattle, Washington.

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne of USA in 1976. Later Ronald withdrew within a very short period. Now recently, on October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs expired.

1978 by Epson.

1980 - standardized to 5.25" (inches)

1981 ; MS-DOS 1.1. in 1982.

1982 by Compaq.

Philips and Sony in 1983.

Hewlett Packard in 1983.

1983

McIntosh by Apple Computers in 1984.

Hewlett Packard in 1984.

1985

Access 386 PC.

1990

1989

1990 - Tim Bernen Lee from Cern, Geneva, when he developed the HTML -(HyperText Mark Up Language).

Alan Kay with his Dynabook in 1972.

IBM 5100.

Gavilon SC manufactured by Gavilon Comp Corpn founded by Manuel Fernandez of US Simultaneously Sharp 5000 laptop was also released.

United Kingdom.

Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA.

"I Love You".

Orkut Buyukkotten, a software Engineer of Turkey.

Ray Tomlinson, New York, USA - he was the one who implemented the e mail System in 1971 on Arpanet. He was also the first use "@" to separate the name of the user and service in use.

The Kenback 1

California.

It is a new video encoding format of computer emailing - a Russian version.

One Web Day.

USA followed by China, Japan, India etc.,

Founded by Sabeer Bhatia of India and Jack Smith in July 1996. It was later acquired by Microsoft in 1997 and now known as "Windows Live Hotmail".

1.4.2004 - by Google.

October 1997 by Yahoo.

hotmail, yahoo mail and G mail in that order. There are few more small time providers also.

G mail labs.

A bag to carry a lap top.

Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle.

A race mentioned in Jonathan Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was actually their project work while studying in Stanford University in 1996.

"Don't be Evil".

Backrub.

Milton Sirotta - US.

Googol - which means "one followed by 100 zeroes.

Googlers.

Raam Shriram.

Android.

All Google employees are encouraged to spend twenty percent of their work on projects of personal interests, which brought out the above mentioned successful products.

The Philanthropic arm of Google that works in the area of environment, Public Health and Poverty.

Dennis Hwang.

Google Zeitgist.

Sameer Bhatia.

Apple. The logo lasted only for few months.

Scott Fahlman of USA in September 1982 .

In December 1997, Jom Barger coined the world "weblog". Later in 1999, Peter Merholz, on the funny side, broke the word "we blog" in one of his communications from which "blog" came to stay and become popular.

A video sharing website founded on 14th February 2005.

Steve Chen - Taiwanese American;  Chad Hurley - American;  Jawed Karim - Bangladesh.

WIKI - meaning fast in Hawai'ian.

There was blue covers on the IBM Mainframe and other products in the 1960s.

A term coined by Blogger, Heather B. Armstrong in 2002, after she was fired from her job writing about work and colleagues on her blog dooce.com.

Field.

Decode.

Jimmy Donal Wales and Larry Sanger on 15.1.2001.

Bill Moggridge of USA in 1979-1980.

The company was co founded by John Warnock (the other being Charles Geschke) and the company was named after a creek that runs behind his house.

Adam Lovelace UK. - daughter of Lord Byron, famous English poet.

Business Process Outsourcing.

Medical Business Process Outsourcing.

Progeon.

2.7.1981 - by N.R. Narayanamurthy, Nandan Nilekani, N.S.Raghavan, S.Gopalakrishnan, S.D.Shibulal, K. Dinesh, S. Arora.

Nipuna.

Practice of sending outsourced functions, of any sort, whether IT based or Business process solutions, to a nearby country, rather than to a country far away.

Responding to mails etc., during business hours in India, when it is night time in other countries.

Burn Out Stress Syndrome.

Computer, Communication and Compatibility.

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 of Microsoft.

Vista.

Microsoft Browser.

Safari.

Voice Over Internet Protocol.

Menlo Park, California.

First Computer Virus.

William Gibson - American Canadian Fiction novelist. He first used the word in his book "Burning Chrome" in 1982.

"ie".

Infoedge P.Ltd.,

Vital Information Resources Under Siege.

The other name of Office Computer application "Visicalc".

The term for computer software that is no longer sold or supported by its Publishers.

Sasser.

America on Line.

A new technology developed by Massachusettes Institute of Technology where there will be no screen for computers.

A term related to computer network to steel credit card details through fraudulent means/methods.

Jaws.

Mark Zuckerberg, American, in 2004 along with his college mates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Huges.

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1.    ATX         --    Advanced Technology Extended
2.    AGP        --     Accelerated Graphics Port
3.    AMOLED  --    Active matrix organic light emitting diode
4.    ARPANET --   Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
5.    BI           --    Business Intelligence
6.    bin          --   binary
7.    BIOS       --   Basic Input/Output System
8.    B2B         --   Business to Business
9.    B2C         --   Business to Consumer
10.  Blog         --   Web Log
11.  bps          --   bits per second
12.  BT           --   Blue Tooth
13.  BW          --   Band Width
14.  BYOD       --   Bring Your Own Device
15.  CA           --   Computer Architecture
16.  CAD         --   Computer Aided Design
17. CAE -- Computer Aided Engineering
18. CAID -- Computer Aided Industrial Design
19. CAI -- Computer Aided Instructions
20. CAM -- Computer Aided Manufacturing
21. CAT -- Computer Aided Translation
22. CAQ -- Computer Aided Quality Assurance
23. CASE -- Computer Aided Software Engineering
24. CDMA -- Code Division Multiple Access
25. COBOL -- Common Business Oriented Language
26. CRS -- Comuter Reservations System
27. CSE -- Computer Science & Engineering
28. CT -- Computerized Tomography
29. CTCP -- Client to Client Protocol
30. CD -- Compact Disk
31. CD-R -- Compact Disk Recordable
32. CD-ROM -- Compact Disk Read Only Memory
33. COMA -- Cache-Only Memory Architecture
34. CPU -- Central Processing Unit
35. CDMA -- Code Division Multiple Access
"36. COMPUTER -- Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and Used
under Technical and Educational Research.
37. DVD -- Digital Video Disk
38. DTP -- Desk Top Publishing
39. DNSE -- Digital natura sound engine
40. DIVX -- Digital internet video access
41. DELL -- Digital electronic link library
42. DLNA -- Digital Living Network Alliance
43. DASD -- Direct Access Storage Device
44. DIMM -- Dual in-line memory module
45. DMA -- Direct Memory Access
46. DVI -- Digital Visual Interface
47. DRAM -- Dynamic Random Access Memory 48. DB -- Database
49. DL -- Download
50. DOS -- Disk Operating System
51. DW -- Data Warehouse
52 ESN -- Electronic Serial Number
53. EDGE -- Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution
54. http -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
55. HP -- Hewlett Packard
56. HDMI -- High Definition Multimedia Interface
57. HTML -- Hyper Text Markup Language
58. HSPA -- High Speed Packet Access
59. HSUPA -- High Speed Uplink Packet Access
60. HSDPA -- High Speed Downlink Packet Access
61. IBM -- International Business Machines
62. IOPS -- Input/output Operations Per Second
63. IMEI -- International Mobile Equipment Identity
64. IC -- Integrated circuit
65. ICT -- Information & Communication Technology
66. IE -- Internet Explorer
67. IM -- Instant Messaging
68. I/O -- Input Output
69. IP -- Intellectual Property, Internet Protocol
70. ISDN -- Integrated Services Digital Network
71. ISP -- Internet Service Provider
72. IVRS -- Interactive Voice Response System
73. KB -- Keyboard, Knowledge Base, Kilobyte
74. Kb -- Kilobit
75. KVM -- Keyboard, Video, Mouse
76. LAN -- Local Area Network
77. LCD -- Liquid Crystal Display
78. LED -- Light Emitting Diode
79. MAN -- Metropolitan Area Network
80. Mb -- Megabit
81. MB -- Megabyte
82. MICR -- Magnet Ink Character Recognition
83. MS -- Microsoft
84. MSDOS -- Microsoft Disk Operating System
85. MPEG -- Moving Pictures Experts Group
86. NOS -- Network Operating System
87. NUMA -- Non-uniform Memory Access
88. NFC -- Near Field Communication.
89. OLED -- Organic Light Emitting Diode
90. OTG -- On the go
91. OS -- Operating System, Open Source
92. OVI -- Ohio Video Intranet
93. PAN -- Personal Area Network
94. PAP -- Password Authentication Protocol
95. PSU -- Power Supply Unit
96. PROM -- Programmable Read Only Memory
97. PCle -- Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
98. PCI - EX -- Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended
99. PPI -- Pixels Per Inch
100. POI -- Point of Interest
101. PCDOS -- Personal computer Disc Operating System
102. QVGA -- Quarter Video Graphics Array
103. ROM -- Read Only Memory
104. RAM -- Random Access Memory
105. RAID -- Redundant Array of Independent Disks
106. RSS -- Really Simple Syndication
107. SIMM -- Single in-line memory module
108. SIM -- Subscriber Identity Module
109. SRAM -- Static Random Access Memory
110. SDRAM -- Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
111. S-LCD -- Super Liquid Crystal Display
112. SNS -- Social Network Service
113. SIS -- Installation Source
114. TFT -- Thin Film Transistor
115. TB -- Terabyte
116. USB -- Universal Serial Bus
117. UPS -- Uninterruptible Power supply
118. UMTS -- Universal Mobile Telecommunictions System
119. VGA -- Video Graphics Array
120. VPN -- Virtual Private Network
121. VIRUS -- Vital Information Resources Under Siege
122. WWW -- World Wide Web
123. WAN -- Wide Area Network
124. WPAN -- Wide Area Personal Network
125. WWAN -- Wireless Wide Area Network
126. WINDOW -- Wide Intractive Network Development for Office Work Solution
127. WVGA -- Wide Video Graphics Array
128. WXGA -- Wide Screen Extended Graphics Array
129. WLAN -- Wireless Local Area Network
130. WCDMA -- Wide Band Code Division Multiple Access 131. Wi fi -- Wireless Fidelity
132. Y2K -- Year Two Thousand