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Joseph Marie Jacquard, merchant and inventor, creates a loom that uses punchen wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs. It was an important moment in programmability and the predecessor of punched cards used in early computers. -
The difference engine was a steam-driven machine considered the first mechanical computer. It was invented by the english mathematician Charles Babbage. -
Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician, writes the first computer program based on the work of Babbage's machine, becoming the first computer programmer. -
The tabulating machine was created by Herman Hollerith, a machine designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. It was used to calculate the 1890 U.S. Census. Hollerith founded a company that which would later be known as IBM. -
The differential analyser is a mechanical analigue computer invented at MIT. It was capable of solving differential equations by integration. -
Alan Turing invented the Turing Machine, a machine capable of computing anything that is computable. Turing is considered the father of the modern computation. -
The Z3 Machine, invented by Konrad Zeuse, was the first digital computer. -
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator or ENIAC was the first electronic programmable computer in the US. -
COBOL was developed by Grace Hooper. It is considered the first computer language. -
Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse marking the birth of the computers for the general public. -
The Apple I, invented by the company of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, is the first computer with a single circuit board and ROM. -
IBM invented the first personal computer: Acorn. It includes a display, printer and diskette drives. The price was 1565$. -
The Apple Lisa was the first personal computer with a GUI (graphical user interface), making it easier to use. -
In 1985, Microsoft launched Windows, the most importante and used operative system in the world.