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Charles Babbage
English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine. Although it was never completed, the Analytical Engine would have had most of the basic elements of the present-day computer. -
Hollerith Punchcard
A punch card is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. The information might be data for data processing applications or, as in earlier times, used to directly control automated machinery. The terms IBM card, or Hollerith card, specifically refer to punch cards used in semiautomatic data processing. -
Alan Turing
He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. -
Grace Hopper and COBOL
Hopper served as a technical consultant to the committee, and many of her former employees served on the short-term committee that defined the new language COBOL (an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language). The new language extended Hopper's FLOW-MATIC language with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, COMTRAN. -
Douglas Engelbart and GUI
In the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation of Human Intellect project at the Augmentation Research Center at SRI International in Menlo Park, California developed the oN-Line System (NLS).[3] This computer incorporated a mouse-driven cursor and multiple windows used to work on hypertext. Engelbart had been inspired, in part, by the memex desk-based information machine suggested by Vannevar Bush in 1945. -
HP
Hewlett-Packard's first computer, the HP 2116A, was developed in 1966 specifically to manage the company's test and measurement devices. In 1972 the company released the HP 3000 general-purpose minicomputer—a product line that remains in use today—for use in business. -
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. -
Windows OS
The first version of Windows was released in 1985. Prior to Windows 1.0, PCs used Disk Operating System or DOS, which required the user to type in memorized commands to locate and runs programs. Windows allows the user to click on icons to perform the same commands -
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread. -
WiFi
WiFi was 'invented' in 1997, when the IEEE developed the 802.11 standard. It was three years later, in 2000, when the name 'Wi-Fi' was introduced by the Wi-Fi Alliance -
iPhone
After months of rumors and speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone on Jan. 9, 2007. The device, which didn’t actually go on sale until June, started at $499 for a 4GB model, $599 for the 8GB version (with a two-year contract). It offered a 3.5-in. screen, a 2-megapixel camera and won plaudits for the then-new multitouch features. Critics, however, said the phone was too expensive to do well in the market. -
Chromebook
The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference in May 2011 and began shipping on June 15, 2011.[7] Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard (now HP Inc.) and Google itself entered the market in early 2013. Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a line of laptops, desktops, tablets and all-in-one computers that run ChromeOS, a proprietary operating system developed by Google. -
Apple Watch
Released in April of 2015, the original Apple Watch set the foundations for what modern smartwatches now build upon. While other companies has attempted to create a smartwatch in the past, they were often bulky, impractical and had limited functionality - Apple seemed to set the bar for what a "Smart Watch" would be defined as. A rectangular watch that was available in two sizes, including a smaller size which is something that other companies seemed to be lacking at the time. -
Chat GPT
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is currently based on the GPT-4o large language model (LLM). ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, which has led to ongoing rapid investment in and public attention to the field of artificial intelligence (AI)