History of Computers By kaprice 1822 Babbage Developed the Steam Driven Calculator 1890 Herman Hollerith Designed Punch Card Calculator 1936 Alan Turing Developed the Universal Computation Machine 1938 Hewlet Packard was Founded 1953 Grace Hopper Developed COBOL 1964 Douglas Engelbart Developed the GUI 1976 Steve Jobs Starts Apple 1981 Adam Osborne Created the First Portable Computer (through the company Osborne) 1985 Microsoft Starts Selling Windows 1990 Tim Berners Lee Developed HYML 1990 The term "Wifi" was coined 1994 Ken Kutaragi Creates the First Playstation 2007 The iPhone was Developed 2011 Google Developed the Chromebook 2015 AppleWatch