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1801 - Punch Card
Joseph Jacquard, invents a loom using punched wooden cards to weave fabric designs. The beginning stages of computers would opt for something similar. -
1848 - Worlds First Computer Program
Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician writes the first computer program. This was the very first stage of an algorithm and what we todays version of "Hello World" -
1890 - Punch Card System
Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to help track the 1890 U.S Census. This ends up saving our government years of labor and tax payers $5 million. -
1931 - First Analog Computer
Vannevar Bush invents the first large scale general-purpose analog computer. -
1941 - First Digital Computer
Konrad Zuse creates the Z3 machine, the first digital computer. Although the first commercial digital computer the z4 was not created until 1950.