Major Events in the History of Computing & the Internet

Ada Lovelace

Dec 10, 1815

Ada Lovelace was born 10th of December 1815 died 27th November 1852 she was an English mathematician and writer. Ada started programming 1840. Ada is known to be one of the first computer programmers. She was the first to recognize that the machine could do more than just calculations, and was first to publish the first algorithm intended to be made by a such machine.

Charles Babbage

1821

Charles Babbage was born 26 December 1791 and died 18 October 1871. He was an English Polymath. He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, he came up with the concept of a digital programmable computer. He is known to be the "father of the computer". He engineered the first mechanical computer called the Difference engine that now has evolved to more complex electronic designs.

John Von Neuman

1932

John Von Neuman was born on December 28, 1903 and died February 8, 1957. He was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. Von Neuman published over 150 papers in his life, about 60 of them were mathematics and 20 in physics. During World War II von Neumann worked on the Manhattan Project. He done problem-solving on nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb. He invented the interior-point method and Von Neuman entropy

Alan Turing

1936

Alan Turing was born 23 June 1912 and died 7 June 1954 he was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, crypt analyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. He was dominant in the development of theoretical computer science and calculating with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.

Douglas Engelbart

1963

Douglas Engelbart was born January 30, 1925 and died July 2, 2013 he was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is known for his work on founding the creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and pioneer to graphical user that launched in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

Douglas Engelbart p. 2

Dec 12, 1963

NLS, or "oN-Line System," developed by the Augmentation Research Center under Engelbart's command with funding primarily from ARPA which are now used in the computer mouse, bit mapped screens, hypertext. In December 2000 the United States President Bill Clinton awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology U.S.'s highest technology award.

Steve Wozniak

1971

1971 - blue box
1976 - first apple computer
Steve Wozniak was born August 11, 1950 and is still alive today he is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Inc. with business partner Steve Jobs, which later became the world's largest information technology company by profits.

Steve Wozniak p.2

Dec 12, 1971

Wozniak started developing Apple. into the computer that launched Apple when he and Jobs first began marketing it the following year. He firstly designed the Apple II, introduced in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers.

Bill Gates

Apr 4, 1975

Bill Gates was born October 28 1955 and he is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.During his career at Microsoft, Gates had the positions of a chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect. He is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Bill Gates p.2

Apr 5, 1975

In 1975,he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.It became the world's largest personal computer software company.He led the company as chairman and CEO until he stepped down as CEO in January 2000, he still remained chairman though and became a chief software architect.

Tim Bernes-Lee

1989

Timothy John Berners-Lee was born 8 June 1955. He is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee suggested an information management system on 12 March 1989, then applied the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and server via the Internet in November. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium which runs the continued development of the Web.

Tim Bernes-Lee p.2

Dec 17, 1989

He is the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and was the first owner of the 3Com founders at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In 2011, he was called as a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation. He is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute and is now an advisor at the social network MeWe.