History of Computers By Roryx200 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 1954 The FORTRAN programming language, was developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus. 1964 Douglas Engelbart Developed the GUI 1971 The floppy disk is invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart. 1973 Robert Metcalfe developed Ethernet. 1976 Steve Jobs Starts Apple 1985 Microsoft Starts Selling Windows 1990 Tim Berners Lee Developed HTML 1990 The term WiFi was coined 2007 The iPhone was Developed 2011 GOOGLE developed the Chromebook 2015 AppleWatch