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Analytical Machine Created
The analytical engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. -
Punch Card Created
Punched cards were widely used in the 20th century, where unit record machines, organized into data processing systems, used punched cards for data input, output, and storage. First created by Herman Hollerith. -
Turing Machine Created
Turing machines, first described by Alan Turing in Turing 1936–7, are simple abstract computational devices intended to help investigate the extent and limitations of what can be computed. Turing's 'automatic machines', as he termed them in 1936, were specifically devised for the computing of real numbers. -
HP Founded
The company was founded on January 1, 1939, by William R. Hewlett and David Packard. -
COBOL Created
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. -
First GUI
The PARC GUI employs a pointing device along with a keyboard. These aspects can be emphasized by using the alternative term and acronym for windows, icons, menus, pointing device (WIMP). This effort culminated in the 1973 Xerox Alto, the first computer with a GUI. -
Apple founded
Apple was founded as Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976, to produce and market Steve Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The company was incorporated by Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1977. -
Al Gore Invents The Internet
January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established by Al Gore. -
Creation of Windows
The history of Windows dates back to 1981 when Microsoft started work on a program called "Interface Manager". It was announced in November 1983. -
First Web Server
CERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) is an early, now discontinued, web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen. -
Creation of WiFi
The first version of the 802.11 protocol was released in 1997, and provided up to 2 Mbit/s link speeds. -
iPhone Created
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at the Macworld convention. -
First Chromebook
The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference in May 2011. -
First Apple Watch
The Apple Watch was released in April 2015, and quickly became the best-selling wearable device.