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History of Computing

  • The Analytic Machine

    The Analytic Machine

    The first fully automatic calculating machine, constructed by British computing pioneer Charles Babbage.
  • Holes in Cards invented

    Holes in Cards invented

    They are pieces of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.
  • UNIVAC invented

    UNIVAC invented

    It’s the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. UNIVAC is an acronym for UNIVersal Automatic Computer.
  • Von neumann Architecture invented

    Von neumann Architecture invented

    It derives from a 1945 computer architecture description by the mathematician and early computer scientist John von Neumann.
  • ENIAC invented

    ENIAC invented

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, made to speed up math calculations needed to produce artillery firing tables for the Army.
  • UNIX operating system invented

    UNIX operating system invented

    Created by Kenneth Thompson, first made commercially available by Interactive Systems.