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A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator created to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in 1822, and was first created by Charles Babbage. -
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. -
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. This was created by Alan Turing in 1936. The model itself was quite simple, however it was capable of implementing any computer algorithm. -
An American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components, as well as software and related services to consumers, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and fairly large companies, including customers in government, health, and education sectors. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939, -
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist who was a well-known pioneer of computer programming. She designed COBOL, a programming language which is still in use today and is designed for business use. -
On April 1st of 1976, apple was created. Wozniak tested his first creation (the blueboxes) by calling the Vatican City, pretending to be Henry Kessinger, demanding to speak with the pope. -
The first GUI was created by Alan Kay and Douglas Engelbart in 1981. A GUI or a Graphical User Interface is a term that refers to the nature of your computers monitor and what appears there. -
A product line o graphical operating systems, created by Microsoft. Grouped into families and sub-families that cater to sectors of the computer industry. -
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. -
Commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves. -
The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system. Designed to be a handheld computer and mobile device. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. -
The Chromebook was a line of netbooks and tablet computers that ran on chrome operating system. -
The apple watch brought the ideas of the handheld computer and a simple watch together to create a convenient way to have both at one time. It's first model ran the latest version of IOS 8. It quickly became the worlds most popular handheld device.