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Hollerith Machine
the Census Bureau was collecting more data than it could tabulate. As a result, the agency held a competition in 1888 to find a more efficient method to process and tabulate data. Contestants were asked to process 1880 census data from four areas in St Louis, MO. Whoever captured and processed the data fastest would win a contract for the 1890 census. -
Turing Machine
Original idea of a computer, invented by Alan Turing, was invented to help investigate the extent and limitations of what can be computed -
Hewlett Packard
HP's first product was an audio oscillator with one of their first customers bein Walt Disney -
Englebart GUI
Introduced cross window editing with a mouse and enabled splitting the computer screen into parts -
Apple Computer Unveiled
Apple Computer Company Is founded by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak in partnership where the first product was the Apple 1 -
Windows
The most popular desktop OS in the world, accounting for 70% of the market share -
Wifi Created
The first version of wi-fi available provided 2 Mbits/sec speed -
Iphone
The smartphone that changed it all, the iphone accounts for 21.67% of the worlds smartphone usage. -
Chromebook
Google Company's own laptop helped by acer and samsung which are now widely used throughout classrooms in america -
Apple watch Unveiled
The best selling wearable device, estimated over 115 million people were wearing the watch as of december 2022