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Wooden Loom Card
Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom that uses punched wooden cards to weave fabric designs. -
Punchcard
Herman Hollerith creates a punch card which calculates the 1880 census, in just 3 years and saved the government five million dollars. -
Turing Machine
Alan Turing invented a machine called the turing machine which is able to work out anything which can be calculated. The modern computer was based on his ideas of the Turing machine. -
Attanasoff Berry Computer
Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry designed a computer which can solve 29 questions at once, it is the first computer to store information on its memory. -
ENIAC
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the ENIAC, which is believed to be the grandfather of digital computers, it can fill a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes, it weighs 30 tons. This computer is not portable at all. -
UNIVAC
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert receives funding from the census bureau to build the UNIVAC which stands for Universal Automatic Computer, it is the first commercial computer to be used for government and business implementation. -
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was the first woman in computer science. She was the one who created the first computer language known as COBOL, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I Computer. -
Douglas Englebart
Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of a computer that looks like our computer nowadays, on his prototype computer he had a mouse and graphical icons. This computer changes the use of computers for us humans, it is showing that computers are not only for mathematicians and scientists to use, but it can be used by the general public with easy access. -
Floppy Disk
Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers to create a floppy disk which lets data to be shared among computers, it is a magnetic storage disk in a square plastic case, to be able to read the data on the disk the computer system would need to have a floppy disk drive otherwise the data on the disk would not be accessible. -
Apple Computer
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak establish the Apple computers on April fools day, they also launched the Apple I, the first computer to have a single circuit board. These computers were sold for $666 each. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak establish the Apple computers on April fools day, they also launched the Apple I, the first computer to have a single circuit board. These computers were sold for $666 each. -
IBM personal computer
The first IBM personal computer is released, code-named “Acorn “. It uses Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, it has an intel chip, two floppy disks and a color monitor which is optional. Sears and Roebuck sells the machine. This IBM personal computer makes the term PC a more common word. -
Dot.com
The first dot-com domain name is registered on March 15. Years before the world wide web would mark the beginning of internet history. The first dot-com domain is The Symbolics Computer Company, registers symbolics.com, a few years later only a hundred more dot-coms have been registered. -
Google
Sergey Brin and Larry Page develops the famous Google search engine at Stanford university. Google is now considered one of the biggest technology companies alongside Apple, Amazon and Facebook. -
Mozilla Firefox and Facebook
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Mozilla hopes that Firefox will attract web users away from Internet Explorer. Facebook is launched. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his other roommates at Harvard College. -
Macbook Pro
Apple initiates the MacBook Pro, it's the first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac. It has a built in microphone and webcam and a power adapter which is attached by magnets.On the left of the MacBook Pro there is a button next to many lights, when you press the button it will light up, the lights indicate how much battery you have left. The battery can last for 7 hours or more, you can charge it more than 1000 times. . -
Chromebook
Google releases the Chromebook that runs the google chrome OS. It can transfer all your data from your previous computer, it just needs a log in then all the data will come to the chromebook. Chromebooks are quite cheap and that is why most schools choose to use them for education purposes. They are familiar with google services so it will be easy to use.
