History of Computers By ashley3901 1822 Charles Babbage Babbage developed the steam driven calculator 1886 Birth of the modern car 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 1972 First game console Magnavox Odyssey 1976 Steve Jobs starts apple 1985 Microsoft starts selling windows 1990 Tim Berners Lee developed htlm 1990 the term WiFi was coined 2007 the iPhone was developed 2011 GOOGLE developed Chromebook 2015 Applewatch