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First automatic digital computer described
English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer ~https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Babbage -
Herman Hollerith punch card
As an inventor and engineer, Hollerith regarded it as his task to design a machine that could evaluate the data fast. ~https://www.hnf.de/en/permanent-exhibition/exhibition-areas/hall-of-fame/herman-hollerith-1860-1929.html#:~:text=The%20punched%20card:%20A%20revolutionary,the%20World%20Exposition%20in%20Paris. -
Alan Turing - Father of modern computers
This hypothetical singular machine could theoretically compute anything computable or solve any well-defined task when given a set of pre-defined rules or instructions. Impossible to build, his proposed device laid the groundwork for modern computers ~https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/alan-turing -
HP Origins
HP was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939. Their first product was an audio oscillator and one of their first customers Walt Disney. ~ https://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/g-i/hewlettpackard-company-hp/#:~:text=HP%20was%20founded%20by%20Bill,the%20HP%202116A%20in%201966. -
Grace Hopper
Devised the theory of machine-independent programming languages and the foundations of COBOL, the first standardized general business computer language. ~https://www.historyofdatascience.com/grace-hopper-the-mother-of-computer-science/#:~:text=Grace%20Brewster%20Murray%20Hopper%20(1906,standardized%20general%20business%20computer%20language. -
Douglas Engelbart - created of the computer mouse
He went on to invent the computer mouse in 1964, with a prototype that consisted of a block of pine, a circuit board and two metal wheels. ~https://engineering.berkeley.edu/douglas-engelbart-computer-visionary/#:~:text=Engelbart%20had%20long%20aimed%20to,board%20and%20two%20metal%20wheels. -
Original Apple Computer
Apple Inc. — originally known as Apple Computers — began in 1976. Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked out of Jobs' garage at his home in Los Altos, California. On April 1, 1976, they debuted the first Apple computer, the Apple 1, a desktop computer that came as a single motherboard, pre-assembled, unlike other personal computers of that era ~https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-apple-computers-1991454 -
Original version of Windows
Windows 1 relied heavily on a mouse, which was not a common computer input device. Microsoft included a game called Reversi that required a mouse to help users get used to this new way of interacting with a computer. ~https://softwarekeep.com/blogs/news/history-of-windows-operating-system?srsltid=AfmBOop4eurK7TR3MWT7eJAM9I7a2C5QcMTnkKMPHNRh-NXdWstHsLUu#h_31568218421683100275463 -
Tim Berners-Lee the creator of "WWW"
Invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. ~https://www.home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web#:~:text=Tim%20Berners%2DLee%2C%20a%20British,and%20institutes%20around%20the%20world. -
Beginnings of standardized WIFI
In 1997, the first WiFi standard was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, from which the name IEEE 802.11 derives. This standard allowed for the transfer of data at 1Mbps. ~ https://www.wifirst.com/en/blog/thehistoryofwifitechnology#:~:text=Famous%20actress%20and%20part%2Dtime,1997:%20Standardisation%20of%20WiFi -
Introduction of the first iPhone
Apple's first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and it was released on June 29, 2007. Priced at $499 for the 4GB model and $599 for the 8GB model ~https://www.seamgen.com/blog/iphone-history-original-iphone-to-current-iphone#:~:text=Apple's%20first%20iPhone%20was%20announced,and%20a%20multi%2Dtouch%20interface. -
Original Chromebook
In 2011 we launched the first Chromebooks in partnership with Acer and Samsung. Today Chromebooks help millions of people stay connected while they work, study and stay entertained ~ https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/chromebook-turns-10/ -
Original Apple Watch
Released in April of 2015, the original Apple Watch (unofficially referred to as the Series 0) set the foundations for what modern smartwatches now build upon ~https://www.buckleandband.com/blogs/apple-watch-tips/a-brief-history-of-the-apple-watch-2015-2023?srsltid=AfmBOooSbQGMz2QLx2L8McCuwgXucbN4H4RgirEpLJIoHV0_R4D5Ss7T -
Pinnacle of quantum computing
Google reported that its 53-qubit superconducting quantum computer had succeeded in carrying out a task that would have been impossible for a classical supercomputer to perform in a reasonable time.