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All the dates in this timeline are false here! Only the year is correct. The computing machine started the philosophy of computers towards Alan Turing's future.
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Invented by George Stibitz, the complex number calculator has the ability to do calculations involving complex numbers.
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Tommy Flowers designed the world's first electronic digital computer that is programmable.
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Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess.
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Alan Turing publishes his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence which helps create the Turing test.
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Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the computer mouse.
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E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson.
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Apple Computers was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet.
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Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold.