A Brief Look at the development of Computers and Animation - A Talk aimed at School Leavers about Infocomm Technology.

2. 1822 – Charles Babbage Built first computer – ‘The Difference Engine’

3. 1837 – Sir Charles Wheatstone Invented the British Electric Telegraph - MORSE CODE

4. 1937 – Alan Turing First programmable computer called COLOSSUS

5. 1945 – University of Pennsylvania Invented the first general purpose computer (different tasks)

6. 1947 – Bell Laboratories Develops the transistor – end of vacuum tubes.

7. 1959 – Texas Instruments Invention of the Integrated Circuit – the ‘Microchip’

8. 1969 – ARPANET Invention of a country wide network - birth of the ‘Internet’

9. 1973 – Bill Gates & Paul Allen Microsoft is born

10. 1976 – Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak Apple is born

11. 1984 – Apple Macintosh First computer to use a Graphic User Interface (GUI)

12. 1984 – Apple Macintosh First computer to use a Graphic User Interface

13. 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee Develops ‘hyperlinks’ – the World Wide Web (WWW) is born

14. 1994 – Marc Andreessen Founded Netscape – first WWW browser – now public can easily access

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24. 1971 – The Andromeda Strain First use of computer graphics in a film (only 10 seconds)

25. 1982 – Tron First film to feature 3D computer graphics

26. 1993 – Jurassic Park First film to feature photo-realistic animated creatures

27. 1995 – Toy Story First fully animated CGI film

28. 2003 – The Matrix First realistic (close-up) of human facial tone and skin Aaaarrrggghhh!!

29. 2004 – Lord of the Rings First CGI movie that used performance-capture .

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