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The Loom PC
The earliest concepts of the computer came from Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French inventor who created a loom which uses punched wooden cards pot automatically weave fabric design. Early computers would similar punch cards. -
The First PC
English mathematics Charles Babbage created a steam-driven calculator machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. Despite being funded by the English government government, the project was a failure. More than a century later, however, the world's first computer was built using Babbage's idea. -
The ENIAC
Two University of Pennsylvania students, John Mauchly and J. Pressed Eckert, built the Electronic Number Integrator and Calculator (ENIC). Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes. -
The Altair 8080
The January issue of Popular Electronics magazines featured the Altair 8080, described as the "world's first minicomputer kit to rival commercial models". Two "computer geniuses", Paul Allen and Bill Gates, offered to write the software for the Altair, using the new BASIC language. On April 4, after the success of this first endeavour, the two childhood friends formed their own software company, Microsoft. -
The First
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The IBM PC
The first IBM personal computer, introduced on August 12, 1981, it uses Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system. It has an Intel Chip and two floppy disks. -
The Amiga 1000
Apple and Microsoft become separate companies and Microsoft announces Windows, it's response to Apple's GUI. Commodore unveils the the Amiga 1000, which features advanced audio and video capabilities. -
The Great WWW
Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's brand new Internet Explorer, the dominant Web browsers. Facebook, a social networking site, launches. This subsequently leads to a chain of events which has led to companies being pitted against one another, and has resulted in some of the greatest technological wonders being developed.
