TIME-TABLE Games History

Sources:

• Herz, J.C.; Joystick Nation; 1997
• "Infoworld", 31 dec. 1999;
• "Games Handboek", dec. 1999;
• "Intermediair", 21 dec. 2000;

1940-1960

	1945		The first computerbug is discovered by one of the first women in the computer industry, marine officer Grace Murray Hopper, in a Harvard Mark II computer. In this case it is a real bug, a moth. The animal is preserved in the National Museum of American History in Washington.
	1948		Start of the first IT-company. In december of this year the Electronic Controls Company of John W. Mauchly and J. Prepser Eckert, is renamed "Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation" (EMCC). The company produces the Univac.
	1949		The University Research Centre MIT, located in Boston, develops the Whirlwind computer. The enormous machine contains over 500 tubes.

1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-