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Charles Babbage Analytical Engine
The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator -
Hollerith Punchcard
His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century -
HP
Founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components, as well as software and related services to consumers, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and fairly large companies, including customers in government, health, and education sectors. -
Turing
Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948, Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory at the Victoria University of Manchester, where he helped develop the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. -
Englebart
Douglas Engelbart was an American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface, and groupware. Leading to the Xerox Alto in 1973 using his GUI. -
Windows
Bill Gates announced Microsoft Windows, a graphical user interface for its MS-DOS operating system that he described as “unique software designed for the serious PC user.” -
Apple
Apple was founded April 1st, 1976 by three entrepreneurs, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Releasing the first Apple computer, the Apple 1, on April 11th, 1976. Now in 2024, Apple has a net worth of almost 3.5 Trillion. -
Tim Berner Lee WWW
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
WiFi
Vic Hayes has been called the "father of Wi-Fi" because he chaired the IEEE committee that created the 802.11 standards in 1997. Before the public even heard of Wi-Fi, Hayes established the standards that would make Wi-Fi feasible. The 802.11 standard was established in 1997. -
IPhone
The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. Since then, Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates. As of November 1, 2018, more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold. -
Chromebook
The first Chromebook was released by Samsung and Acer. Although common throughout schools in the past few years, it has low power processors, so it's not ideal for anything other than minimal school apps. -
Apple Watch
In 2014, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, released a statement saying that he would make the only smartwatch that matters. Being released in April of 2015, it did not sell as they thought it would. But now, almost 10 years later, Apple has made 40 Billion dollars from the Apple Watch alone.