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Charles Babbage
Babbage published On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832), on the organisation of industrial production -
Herman Hollerith
Hollerith built machines under contract for the Census Office, which used them to tabulate the 1890 census in only one year. -
Z1 computer
he Z1 was the first in a series of computers that Zuse designed. Its original name was "V1" for VersuchsModell 1 (meaning Experimental Model 1). After WW2, it was renamed "Z1" to differentiate from the flying bombs designed by Robert Lusser -
1st Generation Computers
The UNIVAC and ENIAC computers are examples of first-generation computing devices. The first computers used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were often enormous, taking up entire rooms. -
Univac
The most famous UNIVAC product was the UNIVAC I mainframe computer of 1951, which became known for predicting the outcome of the U.S. presidential election the following year. -
Eniac
initially designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. -
2nd Generation Computers
Transistors replaced vacuum tubes and ushered in the second generation of computers -
Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments -
BASIC
Mark Mayfield's Star Trek was made into a video game using this software. -
3rd Generation Computers
Instead of punched cards and printouts, users interacted with third generation computers through keyboards and monitors and interfaced with an operating system, which allowed the device to run many different applications at one time with a central program that monitored the memory. -
4th Generation Computers
In 1981 IBM introduced its first computer for the home user, and in 1984 Apple introduced the Macintosh. Microprocessors also moved out of the realm of desktop computers and into many areas of life as more and more everyday products began to use microprocessors. -
Altair Computer
Considered by many to be the first "personal computer" -
Steve Jobs
Built the first Apple computer in his garage -
Bill Gates
November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico. -
Apple II
Was used in many schools -
Wordstar
rmerly published by MicroPro International, it was originally written for the CP/M operating system but later ported to DOS -
Osborne Computer
Company went bankrupt after showing off a new computer and having older orders sent back. -
Introduction of the GUI
Still used today in phones, cars, TV's, etc. -
Visicalc
ften considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool, and is considered the Apple II's killer app. VisiCalc sold over 700,000 copies in six years, and as many as 1 million copies over its history. -
Excel
There is some controversy about whether a graphical version of Microsoft Excel was released in a DOS version. Microsoft documents show the launch of Excel 2.0 for MS-DOS version 3.0 on 10/31/87. -
Pagemaker
The last major release of PageMaker was 7.0 in 2001, after which the product was seen as "languishing on life support".[23] Adobe ceased all development of PageMaker in 2004 and "strongly encouraged" users to migrate to InDesign, initially via special "InDesign PageMaker Edition" and "PageMaker Plug-in" versions that added PageMaker's data merge, bullet and numbering features to InDesign, and provided PageMaker-oriented help topics, complimentary Myriad Pro fonts and templates -
Mosaic
Made the Web accessible by ordinary people. -
Netscape
Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. The usage share of Netscape had fallen from over 90 percent in the mid-1990s to less than one percent by the end of 2006.