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1801
In France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom that would use punched wooden cards to weave fabric patterns and designs. -
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History of Computers
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1822
Charles Babbage made a calculating machine that would compute tables of numbers. -
1890
Herman Hollerith remade the punch card system to calculate 1880 census -
1936
Alan Turing invented the ‘Turing Machine’ which was able to compute anything computable. -
1937
J.V Atanasoff attempted to build the first computer without gears. -
1939
Hewlett- Packard (HP) founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett. -
1941
Atanasoff and Clifford Berrydesign a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. -
1943
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert builds the ENIAC. -
1949
William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor. -
1953
Grace Hopper developed the first computer language: COBOL. -
1958
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit.Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his work. -
1964
Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern day computer. -
1971
Alan Shugart and his team invents the ‘floppy disk’. -
1975
Paul Allen and Bill Gates start Microsoft. -
1976
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple computers and made Apple 1. -
1983
Apple’s Lisa, the first portable computer made, giving it the modern day word ‘laptop’. -
1985
Microsoft announces Windows. -
1999
Term ‘Wifi’ becomes part of the computing language officially. -
2004
Facebook a social network site launches. -
2005
Youtube launches, a video sharing website. -
2006
Apple introduces the Macbook Pro. -
2015
The first Apple Watch is invented. -
2017
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developed.