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Automatic loom
Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a automatic loom that uses punched wooden cards to weave fabric designs.
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Steam calculator
Charles Babbage creates a steam driven calculating machine resulting in a failure -
Wooden punch cards
Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census. -
Universal machine
Alan Turing present the notion of a universal machine. -
First computer without belts
J.V. Atanasoff attempts to build the first computer without gears, belts, or shafts. -
29 Equations
Atanasoff and a graduate student designs a computer that can solve 29 equations at 1 time. -
ENIAC
2 university professors build ENIAC -
First commercial computer
Mauchly and Presper are funded to create the first commercial computers -
Transistors
William Shockley, John Bardeen, and WalterBrattain create the first transistor. -
First computer language
Grace Hopper develops the first computer language. -
Foton
Forton programming language is born. -
Integrated circuit
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit. -
Mouse and GUI
Douglas Engelbartshows prototype of first computer with a mouse and GUI. -
UNIX
Bell Labs creates the UNIX operating system. -
DRAM
Intel creates the first DRAM -
Floppy disk
IBM engineers create the floppy disk. -
Ethernet cable
Robert Meltcalfe creates the ethernet cable. -
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1974- 1977
Personal computers hit the market. -
Microsoft
Microsoft is created. -
Apple
Apple is created and invents the Apple 1. -
Apple 2
TRS-80 sold crazily and Apple 2 shown off at the first computer fair. -
Visicalc
Visicalc is created. -
Wordstar
Wordstar is created. -
Acorn
First IBM personal computer code: Acorn -
LISA
Apple's Lisa has first personal computer GUI. -
Windows
Microsoft announces windows, Commodore unveils Amiga 1000, and first dot-com domain is registered. -
32bit
Compaq brings deskpro 386 to market and 32 bit computers bring speed comparable to mainframes. -
HTML
Tim Berners- Lee develops HTML. -
Pentium Processors
Pentium Microprocessors advances graphics and music on pc's. -
Gaming
PC's become used for gaming. -
Google
Sergey Brin and Larry Pagedevelop google. -
Apple investments
Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple which was struggling. -
Wifi
The term wifi becomes part of the computing language. -
Mac
Apple unveils Mac os X. -
64 bit
First 64 bit processor developed by AMD. -
Face book launches
Firefox challenges internet explorer to dominant browser and facebook launches. -
Android
Youtube is founded and google aquires android. -
Mac book pro
Apple introduces the Mac book pro. -
Iphone
The Iphone is released. -
Windows 7
Microsoft launches windows 7. -
Ipad
Apple unveils the Ipad. -
Chrome Book
Google releases the Chrome book. -
Facebook
Facebook gains 1 billion users. -
Windows 10
Apple releases the apple watch and Microsoft releases windows 10.