PC Origins

Automatic loom

Oct 1, 1801

Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a punched wooden cards loom.

Steam-driven calculator machine

Oct 19, 1822

Charles Babbage creates it to compute tables of numbers but the project is a failure.

New punched card system

Oct 19, 1890

Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census, accomplishing the task in just three years.

The Turing Machine

Oct 19, 1936

Alan Turing present a machine capable of computing anything that is computable. The central concept of the modern computers was based on his ideas.

IBM 5100

Nov 3, 1974

Begins the comercialitation of the IBM 5100

Apple starts

Nov 3, 1976

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April Fool’s Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board

First IBM PC

Nov 3, 1981

The first IBM personal computer,code-named “Acorn,” is introduced. It uses Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system.

Gaming

Nov 3, 1994

PCs become gaming machines as "Command & Conquer," "Alone in the Dark 2," "Theme Park," "Magic Carpet," "Descent" and "Little Big Adventure" are among the games to hit the market.

Wi-fi

Nov 5, 1999

The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires.

Mozilla Firefox

Nov 5, 2004

Mozilla’s Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the dominant Web browsers.

YouTube

Nov 5, 2005

YouTube, a video sharing service, is founded. Google acquires Android, a Linux-based mobile phone operating system.

iPhone

Nov 5, 2007

The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone