Timeline

  • The difference engine

    The difference engine
    announced in a paper to the royal astronomical society, it was invented by Charles Babbage with the goal to to create a machine to reduce the calculation of polynomial functions.
  • The Turing machine

    The Turing machine
    Invented in 1936, the Turing machine, invented by Alan Turing, was invented for solving problems in computer science and testing the limits for computation.
  • hp

    hp
    Company's first product was an audio oscillator used by Disney to test audio equipment equipped in movie theaters.
  • Apple

    Apple
    founded by college dropouts Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak brought a new vision of changing the way people viewed computers.
  • The World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web
    Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. Originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information between clients and servers.
  • wi-fi

    wi-fi
    technically invented in 1997 when institute of Electrical and electronic engineers approved the 802.11 standard.
  • iPhone

    iPhone
    launched in the united states June 29, 2007. The invention reinvented the phone and development began in 2005.
  • Chromebook

    Chromebook
    line of netbooks and tablet computers that run using chromeOS, announced in may 2011, began shipping June 15, 2011
  • apple watch

    apple watch
    designed to be an alternative to phones and reduce the amount of time users spend looking at screens. Intended to set the standard for smart watches as the ones that came before the apple watch were inferior.