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1801
Joseph Marie Jacquard created a loom that used wooden punch cards. -
1822
Charles Babbage invents a calculating machine that is steam-driven and can compute numbers. -
1936
Alan Turing came up with an idea for a machine that he called the Turing machine and that it would be able to compute anything. -
1937
At Iowa State University a professor attempted to build the first computer without any cams, belts, or shafts. -
1941
Professor, J.V. Atanasoff, and graduate student, Clifford Berry, designed a computer that could solve 29 problems simultaneously. -
1943
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built an Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). This machine was made up of 18,000 vacuum tubes to control the electronic current flow. -
1946
The first commercial computer for business and government use. -
1950
The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) was created. This was the first computer with a program that could store things on it. -
1953
Computer scientist Grace Hopper developed the first computer language. This allowed the users to use words instead of numbers. -
1958
Jack Kirby and Robert Noyce invented the circuit, which is now called the computer chip. -
1964
Douglas Engelbart introduced a prototype of the modern computer that included a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). -
1973
Robert Metcalfe develops how to be able to connect multiple computers and hardware. -
1975
Paul Allen and Bill Gates offered to write software for the Altair 8800 using basic language. Later that year they created Microsoft. -
1976
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers and introduce the world to the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
Queen Elizabeth II sent out her first email to demonstrate networking technology. -
1981
IBM released their first personal computer, the Acorn that has an Intel chip. -
1982
Computers became more personalized and brought down to scale so that people could use them. -
1984
Apple launches Macintosh -
1990
Tim Berners-Lee develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Tim also prototyped the word WorldWideWeb (www). -
1991
Apple released the Powerbook series of laptops. -
1993
Apple released Newton (Personal Data Assistant). Newton was Apple's attempt at a handheld computer. -
1995
IBM released the ThinkPad 701C.
Microsoft launched Windows 95. -
1996
Google was founded -
1998
Apple released the iMac. -
2000
The USB flash drive was introduced. -
2001
Apple introduces the Mac OS X operating system, soon after Microsoft came out with Windows XP -
2004
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was launched.
Facebook was also launched. -
2005
YouTube was founded.
Google acquired the mobile phone operating system of Android. -
2006
Apple released the MacBook Pro, which was their first intel-based, dual-core mobile computer. -
2007
Apple released the first iPhone, bringing computer functions to a handheld device. -
2011
Google released the Chromebook.
Apple announced the iPhone 4S -
2014
The University of Michigan Micro Mote (M3), the smallest computer in the world was created. -
2019
Apple announces iPadOS. This is creating the iPad's very own operating system.