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Steam Calculator
One day in 1821, after finding multiple errors in hand-calculated astronomical tables, Charles Babbage exclaimed: "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam." He then set out to design a mechanical calculator. -
Hollerith Punch Cards
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. -
Turing Machine
A Turing machine is the original idealized model of a computer, invented by Alan Turing in 1936. Turing machines are equivalent to modern electronic computers at a certain theoretical level, but differ in many details. -
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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. -
Grace Hopper COBOL
COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper. It was created as part of a U.S. Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. -
Graphical User Interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation. GUIs are used instead of text-based UIs, which are based on typed command labels or text navigation. -
Apple Computer
Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices. -
Window
Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983. Microsoft introduced Windows as a graphical user interface for MS-DOS, which had been introduced two years earlier. -
Tim Berners_Lee (WWW)
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) 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
The Wifi was invented by John O' Sullivan, George Antheil, Cees Links, Terence Percival, Diethelm Ostry, John Deane. and Graham Daniels. -
Iphone
The first iPhone was released in June 2007. Announced by Steve Jobs in January 2007, the groundbreaking device combined the functionality of an iPod, a mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communicator. -
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. -
Apple Watch
Jony Ive, then Apple's chief designer, reportedly started working on the Apple Watch in 2011. Apple CEO Tim Cook has separately noted that Apple Watch development began after the death of Steve Jobs. However, the idea's origin could have begun as early as 2005.