Tech timeline

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine.
  • Hollerith punchcard

    Hollerith punchcard
    Herman Hollerith's punched cards were invented in the late 1880s to record data in a machine-readable format. Hollerith's cards were used for the 1890 U.S. Census and were a key component of what would become IBM.
  • HP

    HP
    When the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) was founded in 1939, the world was a very different place. There were no fully electronic computers. The only printers were industrial-sized printing presses. Palo Alto, California was composed mostly of fruit orchards. The internet was decades away from fruition.
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a British mathematician, logician, and computer scientist who is known as the "father of modern computing". He was a pioneer in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence.
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Hopper is best known for her trailblazing contributions to computer programming, software development, and the design and implementation of programming languages. Led team designing COBOL in 1959
  • GUI

    GUI
    The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles. Several vendors have created their own windowing systems based on independent code
  • Apple computer

    Apple computer
    Apple Inc. — originally known as Apple Computers — began in 1976. Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked out of Jobs' garage at his home in Los Altos, California. On April 1, 1976, they debuted the first Apple computer, the Apple 1, a desktop computer that came as a single motherboard, pre-assembled, unlike other personal computers of that era.
  • Winows

    Winows
    The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, 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).[12] The name "Windows" is a reference to the windowing system in GUIs.[13] The 1990 release of Windows 3.0 catapulted its market success and led to various other product families
  • Tim BernersLee

    Tim  BernersLee
    Tim Berners-Lee is a British scientist and computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the World Wide Web Foundation.
  • Wifi

    Wifi
    In 1997, the first WiFi standard was developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, from which the name IEEE 802.11 derives. This standard allowed for the transfer of data at 1Mbps.
  • Iphone

    Iphone
    The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at Macworld 2007, and launched later that year. Since then, Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS versions
  • Chromebook

    Chromebook
    2011 and were netbooks called Chromebooks. Chrome OS, which runs on top of a Linux kernel, requires fewer system resources than most operating systems because it uses cloud computing,
  • Apple watch

    Apple watch
    Released in April of 2015, the original Apple Watch (unofficially referred to as the Series 0) set the foundations for what modern smartwatches now build upon. While other companies has attempted to create a smartwatch in the past, they were often bulky, impractical and had limited functionality - Apple seemed to set the bar for what a "Smart Watch" would be defined as.
  • Chat gtp

    "ChatGPT" is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text responses to questions and prompts, essentially having conversations with users by understanding and responding to natural language; "GPT" stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer,"