-
In 1642, Blaise Pascal made the first mechanical calculator, the Pascaline. This was the beginning of a new era where computers will lead the way of our lives...
-
The laws of computing was established by Charles Babbage, this law is followed in all computers up to this day.
-
In 1820, the “Difference Engine” was created, in prototype version. The purpose was a calculator again. Charles Babbage was not able to create the final version of the Difference Enginge because he used up all his funds creating a better version.
-
The tabulating machine was an electromechanical machine designed to help the U.S Census. It cut the processing time from 6 months to 3 weeks!
-
The Z1 was a computer that was an electric driven mechanical calculator which uses floating point binary numbers and was programmable
-
The FORTRAN programming language is a programming language like HTML/ Javascript today.
-
Intel releases the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory (RAM) chip. This was the first chip in the Intel series
-
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
-
Microsoft announces Windows, an operating system we now use in our everyday lives.
-
Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML), paving the way for the World Wide Web
