Technology Timeline

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  • The difference engine

    The difference engine
    A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator created to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in 1822, and was first created by Charles Babbage.
  • Punch Cards

    Punch Cards
    A punched card is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common in data processing and the control of automated machines.
  • Turing Machine

    Turing Machine
    A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. This was created by Alan Turing in 1936. The model itself was quite simple, however it was capable of implementing any computer algorithm.
  • HP

    HP
    An American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. 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. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939,
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist who was a well-known pioneer of computer programming. She designed COBOL, a programming language which is still in use today and is designed for business use.
  • Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne found apple

    Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne found apple
    On April 1st of 1976, apple was created. Wozniak tested his first creation (the blueboxes) by calling the Vatican City, pretending to be Henry Kessinger, demanding to speak with the pope.
  • The first GUI

    The first GUI
    The first GUI was created by Alan Kay and Douglas Engelbart in 1981. A GUI or a Graphical User Interface is a term that refers to the nature of your computers monitor and what appears there.
  • Windows

    Windows
    A product line o graphical operating systems, created by Microsoft. Grouped into families and sub-families that cater to sectors of the computer industry.
  • Tim Berners-Lee invents the WWW

    Tim Berners-Lee invents the WWW
    Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
  • WIFI

    WIFI
    Commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.
  • The Iphone

    The Iphone
    The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system. Designed to be a handheld computer and mobile device. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007.
  • The chromebook

    The chromebook
    The Chromebook was a line of netbooks and tablet computers that ran on chrome operating system.
  • Apple watch

    Apple watch
    The apple watch brought the ideas of the handheld computer and a simple watch together to create a convenient way to have both at one time. It's first model ran the latest version of IOS 8. It quickly became the worlds most popular handheld device.