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Blaise Pascal creates the first digital computer to help his dad, a tax collector. By turning wheels connected to gears it could make simple calculations.
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Reacting to the potenial problem of the counting if the census taking more then the 10 years between census, Herman Hollerith created the punch card machine to tabulate the US Census. Herman goes on to create a company that eventually becomes IBM.
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In World War II, there was a demand for calculations such as the trajectory of new weapons. Built at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC was designed to be a high speed electronic calculator. It used 18,0000 vacuum tubes and took up 1,800 square feet of space.
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Wanting to be able to contact any computer from any other computer, Charley Kline at UCLA and Bill Duvall of Stanford successful shared the first message across a computer network. Kline was typing login but only completed the "LO" before the system crashed.
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IBM creates the "floppy disk" allowing data to be shared easily between computers.
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Released on April Fool's Day, the Apple 1 marked the beginning of what is today's largest technology company.
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While Apple and others had been selling personal computers for a few years, the launch of IBM's PC with Microsoft's MS-DOS and an Intel chip inside launched a new era.
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Apple's Lisa computer was the first to introduce GUI (graphical user interface). The computer was not a success and was replaced by the Macintosh.
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Sergio Brin and Larry Page create a search engine and call it Google while they are at Stanford University.
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Apple launches the IPhone bringing many computer functions to a phone, blending the line between the two devices and making computing truly mobile.
