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Charles Babbage
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, the 'father of the computer', was born on December 26, 1791 -
The Difference Engine
At this time, until the 1830s, Charles Babbage developed the mechanical computing machine called the difference engine. The difference engine was an automatic mechanical calculator that was used to organize or systemize polynomial functions.
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Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was Baggage's successor of the difference engine. It was a mechanical general-purpose computer. Ada Lovelace created the algorithm and the analytical engine carried it out. -
Tabulating Machine
Herman Hollerith invented the Tabulating Machine which was used to summarize information that was stored on punched cards.
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The Atanasoff-Berry Computer
The first electronic digital computing device built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. It did not have a central processing unit but it used vacuum tubes for digital computation. -
COBOL
Grace Hopper developed COBOL, a high-level programming language. -
EDVAC
EDVAC or the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer was built by J. Presper Eckert, Jr., John William Mauchly, and John von Neumann. It used binary coding instead of decimal and it was a stored-programmed computer. This computer influenced the designs of today's computers. -
Macintosh 128K / Apple Macintosh
It had a CRT monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse.
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Windows 1.0
Microsoft developed this system that ran through graphical programs and existing MS-DOS software. -
Web Browser
Invented by Tim Berners-Lee. It was a first for the internet.
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iphone
Apple Inc. released the first ever iPhone and it helped make mobile computing more popular. -
iPad
Apple Inc.'s iPad was the first ever widely-used tablet computer.
