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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer. Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. -
Hollerith Punch Card
Herman Hollerith invented the punched card device in the late 1880s, which allowed data to be recorded on a machine-readable medium. He used this device to analyze the 1890 U.S. census data, using electricity to read, count, and sort punched cards. -
Alan Turing & the Turing Machine
Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, and created the Turing Machine, a model of a general-purpose computer. -
HP
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was 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. -
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. -
Englebart GUI
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. -
Apple
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the first apple computer in their garage, called the Apple I -
Windows
First announced by Bill Gates in 1983, introduced as a graphical user interface. -
WIFI
WIFI is networking technology that uses radio waves to allow high-speed data transfer over short distances. -
Tim Berners Lee
Tim Berners Lee was the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He was the inventor of the first web browser -
iPhone
The first iPhone was unveiled at Macworld 2007 and released later that year. By the end of 2009. The iPhone was revolutionary because of the touch-screen feature. -
Chromebook
Chromebook is a line of laptops, desktops, tablets and all-in-one computers that run ChromeOS, a proprietary operating system developed by Google. First released in 2011. -
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch incorporates fitness tracking, health-oriented capabilities, and wireless telecommunication, and integrates with watchOS and other Apple products and services. Created in 2014 and released in 2015. -
ChatGPT & AI
In 2022, OpenAI released the AI chatbot ChatGPT, which interacted with users in a far more realistic way than previous chatbots thanks to its GPT-3 foundation, which was trained on billions of inputs to improve its natural language processing abilities.