Apple II launched
1977 · Event
Jobs and Wozniak unveil a ready-made computer in a sleek plastic case, with colour graphics and expansion slots — the machine that turned Apple into a big company and the PC into a consumer product.
On these timelines: The Digital Revolution, Master, Science & Technology, USA
More from The Digital Revolution
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Turing's On Computable Numbers (1936)
- Google founded (1998)
- Moore's Law formulated (1965)
- First website goes online (1990)
- Mosaic makes the web visual (1993)
- Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
- First networked email sent (1971)
Around 1977
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)