History of Computing timeline.

The Turing test named after Alan Turing is a way to test how well a machine is able to exhibit intelligent behaviour. If the machine acts like a human and is indistinguishable from a human in a small 5-minute conversation on a computer then it would pass the test. The test is also a controversial topic and hotly disputed if the test really can test if a machine is alive. An advanced algorithm that has been trained to replicate human behaviour is not the same as thinking according to John Searle

Douglas Engelbart(1925-2013) is best known for his work on founding the field of human-computer interaction, which resulted in the creation of the modern-day computer mouse, Graphical interfaces like user interfaces, and computer networking. User interfaces are the graphical menus that you can observe and navigate. He envisioned that computers would be much more complicated in the future and that’s why he created the computer mouse.

Bill Gates was born in Seattle in 1955. Gates co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975. Microsoft are the developers behind the Windows operating systems in personal computers. Bill Gates was for a long time considered one of the wealthiest persons in the world, only being surpassed by the founder and CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos in 2017. He has played an important role in software development and could be considered as the founder of modern-day operating systems.

Steve Wozniak had an important role in the making of the first personal computer, Apple 1 made by him and Steve Jobs was a revolutionary event for the computing world and paved the way for the modern world of technology. On the 29 of June 1975, Wozniak tested the first prototype, it could display characters and could successfully run some test programs. It should be noted that Steve Wozniak made the first Apple computer and the software, not Steve Jobs. Soon the Apple 2 would be realised.

WWW for short is one of the most influential inventions of all time. Laying the ground for the internet we know today, all information on the tops of our fingers. The internet has it all, from cooking to rockets. It wasn’t this big from the beginning. Tim Berners-Lee made the groundwork, he made the program Enquire which became and developed into the World Wide Web. He made the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet.