History of the computing

By Hampus04

  • Charles babbage

    Charles babbage
    The biggest thing Charles Babbage did during his life was that he designed the first ever automatic digital computer which was programmable, he designed it in 1849. He was never able to build it himself and it took over 153 years for someone to actually build it. But his discovery was groundbreaking since it made a lot of people want to create something similar. Charles Babbage is also known as the “the father of computers”.

  • Duglas Englebart

    Duglas Englebart
    Duglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor. Duglas Engelbart is most famous for inventing the computer mouse in 1964. This invention was very important and it helped future scientists and the whole world. This helped people since with the computer mouse you are able to move around in your computer freely and it is very fast. But before that you had to write in codes to be able to move from a document to another. So Duglas Engelbart’s invention was groundbreaking.

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    In 1975 Bill Gates formed Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Microsoft is a company that develops manufactures, licenses, supports, personal computers and related services. Microsoft is famous because Windows is very popular because it is pre-loaded in majority of the new personal computers.

  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs made the company Apple with Steve Wozniak. Steve Jobs was the first person to create a personal computer that did not have a seperate keyboard, mouse or monitor. This is a very important invention since it meant that people could bring their computer with them when travelling.

  • Tim Berners-Lee

    In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN,The World Wide Web are commonly known as the Web, it's an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators. The world wide web is important because It connected the world in a way that was not possible before and made it much easier for people to get information, share and communicate.