technology timeline

  • Stem Calculator

    Stem Calculator
    Stem Calculator was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.
  • Hollerith punched cards

    Hollerith punched cards
    Hollerith punched cards used for the 1890 U.S.census were blank. Following that, cards commonly had printing such that the row and column position of a hole could be easily seen. Printing could include having fields named and marked by vertical lines, logos, and more.General purpose layouts were also available. For applications requiring master cards to be separated from following detail cards, the respective cards had different upper corner diagonal cuts and thus could be separated by a sorter.
  • HP

    HP
    HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing solutions. It was formed on November 1, 2015, as the legal successor of the original Hewlett-Packard after the company's enterprise product and business services divisions were spun off as a new publicly traded company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
  • Turing

    Turing
    Alan Mathison Turing (6/23/1912 – 6/7/1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
  • Grace Hopper Cobol

    Grace Hopper Cobol
    Grace Brewster Hopperwas an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral.[1] One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended by others to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.
  • Apple Inc

    Apple Inc
    Apple Inc. Is a multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services Devices include the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV; operating systems include iOS and macOS; and software applications and services include iTunes, iCloud, and Apple Music.
  • GUI

    GUI
    The graphical user interface, developed in the late 1970s by the Xerox Palo Alto research laboratory and deployed commercially in Apple’s Macintosh and Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, was designed as a response to the problem of inefficient usability in early, text-based command-line interfaces for the average user
  • Windows

    Windows
    Windows is an operating system designed by Microsoft. The operating system is what allows you to use a computer. Windows comes preloaded on most new personal computers (PCs), which helps to make it the most popular operating system in the world. Windows makes it possible to complete all types of everyday tasks on your computer. For example, you can use Windows to browse the Internet, check your email, edit digital photos, listen to music, play games, and do much more.
  • Tim Berners Lee

    Tim Berners Lee
    Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Wifi

    Wifi
    Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that allows devices such as computers (laptops and desktops), mobile devices (smartphones and wearables), and other equipment (printers and video cameras) to interface with the Internet. It allows these devices and many more to exchange information with one another, creating a network.
  • Iphone

    Iphone
    The iPhone is a line of smartphones produced by Apple Inc. that use Apple's own iOS mobile operating system. The iPhone was the first mobile phone to use multi-touch technology. Since the iPhone's launch, it has gained larger screen sizes, video recording, waterproofing, and many accessibility features. The iPhone is one of the two largest smartphone platforms in the world alongside Android, and is a large part of the luxury market.
  • Chromebook

    Chromebook
    Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a line of laptop and tablet computers that run Chrome OS, an operating system developed by Google. Chromebooks run Android, Linux, and Progressive web apps, as well as functioning offline.[1] They are manufactured and offered by various OEMs,[2] and, in addition to the laptop and tablet form factors, they are available as desktops, all-in-ones, and previously as an HDMI stick PC.
  • apple watch

    apple watch
    The Apple Watch is a smartwatch produced by Apple Inc. It incorporates fitness tracking, health-oriented capabilities, and wireless telecommunication, and integrates with watch OS and other Apple products and services. The Apple Watch was released in April 2015, and quickly became the best-selling wearable device: 4.2 million were sold in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, and more than 115 million people were estimated to use an Apple Watch as of December 2022.