History of Computers

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  • Charles Babage

    Charles Babbage invented the computer

  • Georg Scheutz

    designed world's first printing calculator

  • Alan Turing

    Invented a universal machine called the Turing machine

  • Birth of Mark 1 Colossus

    The Colossus machines were the first electronic calculating devices. They were used by the British to read German encrypted communications during World War II.

  • Grace Hopper

    Developed the first computer language.

  • First Prototype

    IBM presented the world’s first electronic calculator in the United States

  • Douglas Engelbart

    He unvails a prototype of the modern computer at the Fall Joint Computer Conference

  • ARPANET

    A small network of computers that was created on behalf of the United States Department of Defense.

  • Apple

    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-found Apple Computer. They reveal Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board and ROM

  • PC Launch

    IBM launches a PC

  • Ipad

    Apple released a handheld tablet.

  • Quantum Computer

    First reprogrammable quantum computer was created