Pascal is a programming language that was designed in the late 1960’s. In 1970 it was published by Niklaus Wirth and uses structured programming and data structuring. Niklaus Wirth based Pascal on ALGOL programming language and was named for the great Mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal was...
COMPUTING INVENTIONS
Who invented floppy disk?
The first floppy disk was invented by a team of researchers at IBM in the year 1971. The team was headed by Alan Shugart and the main designer in the team was David Noble. The professionals at IBM wanted to create a device which could store information for the users as backup for their software...
Who invented Google?
The most popular search engine was invented by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in September, 1998. They named it Google, after Googol which means number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name itself said about the amount of information that the search engine stored. It was in 1995 that Sergey Brin, a...
Who invented computer jump drive?
Dov Moran invented the computer jump drive in 1998. This seems to be the joint venture of M-systems, a firm for which Dov was working and that of Dov Moran. The first flash drive was created in Europe and it was named Disgo. Though it was a quite different device from what we use today. The...
Who invented computer mouse?
The first computer mouse called prototype was invented in 1963 by Dr. Douglas C Engelbart. His invention took place at Stanford Research Institute with the help of his colleague, Bill English. This changed the computer world from a complex machine to a user- friendly machine. The mouse got...
Who invented computers?
In the year 1786 the “difference engine” was invented by J.H. Muller. It could not make its place and conquer the market and thus in 1822 Charles Babbage, famous as “the father of the computer” reinvented it. In the history of computers this has been considered as zero generation of...
