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The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by the English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator -
He created the first Punch Card reader for the 1890 Census, which was cutting edge, and came in ahead of schedule and under budget. -
A Turing machine, conceptualized by Alan Turing in 1936, is a theoretical model of computation that consists of a tape, a read/write head, and a set of states with rules to guide its actions. -
HP (Hewlett-Packard) was formally founded in 1939 by William Hewlett and David Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California. It went on to be a leader in technology and Computers, with break throughs even today. -
She helped create The first machine independent high-level language, or Computer Programming Language. She was also the person who came up with the term "DeBugging" -
At the "Mother of all Demos" Englebert showed his new GUI - the first Mouse. -
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, a couple of nerds in the garage, come up with something. Something BIG! -
Microsoft announced Windows, a graphical user interface (GUI) for PCs, on November 10, 1983, and released the first version, Windows 1.0, on November 20, 1985, as a shell that ran on top of MS-DOS. Bill Gates was the main inventor (aping APPLEs OS)) -
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Wi-Fi was a collaborative invention built on decades of work, with Hedy Lamarr pioneering "frequency hopping" for secure wireless communication in the 1940s, a technology that forms the foundation of Wi-Fi. The direct precursor to modern Wi-Fi was developed in the 1990s by John O'Sullivan and his team at Australia's CSIRO, ((1940-1990)) was the main "invention" timeline, although they work on it to this day! -
A world changing technology is released, to much fanfare and making Apple the most profitable company on earth. -
Google, Acer, and Samsung unite to release the mighty Chromebook. A notebook style laptop, with the power of a tower desktop! -
Apple releases the Apple Watch, the latest must have fashion/tech combo. Sales are through the roof.