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The analytical engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. -
A Turing machine is an idealised model of a central processing unit (CPU) that controls all data manipulation done by a computer, with the canonical machine using sequential memory to store data -
Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, who both graduated with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1935. It is a top company in the technology world. -
A punched card is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common in data processing and the control of automated machines. -
COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper. It was created as part of a U.S. Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. -
Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak built the Apple I and Apple II and it became successful in the personal computer market. -
The GUI was first developed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center by Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, and other researchers. Apple introduced a computer with the GUI in 1983. -
The first version of Windows was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). -
Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web(WWW) and first introduced HTTP and URL software. -
Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.1. Commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves. -
The chromebook laptop was created by Google in 2011. 60% of all computers used in schools in the United States are chromebooks. The chromebook was stated to be one of the most successful Linux laptops to ever be created. -
The Apple Watch first generation was released in April 2015. The watch incorporated fitness related features, wireless communication, and health related benefits.