timeline

  • Hollerith punch card

    Hollerith punch card

    Herman Hollerith began developing his punch card tabulating system. It used cards with punched holes to represent data and could be processed using an electromechanical machine
  • turing

    turing

    In May 1936, Alan Turing published his groundbreaking paper “On Computable Numbers”, introducing the concept of the Turing Machine, a fundamental model for computation.
  • HP

    HP

    Hewlett-Packard, commonly known as HP, was founded on January 1, 1939, by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a small garage in Palo Alto, California.
  • grace hopper

    grace hopper

    Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906. She was a pioneering computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral who helped develop the first computer programming languages.
  • Douglas Engelbart

    Douglas Engelbart

    On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave a groundbreaking live demonstration showcasing revolutionary computer technologies, including the computer mouse, hypertext, windowed interfaces, and early ideas of interactive computing. This event laid the foundation for the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • STEM calculator

    STEM calculator

    In February 1972, Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP-35, the first handheld scientific calculator.
  • apple

    apple

    Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California. The company started in a garage, where they built the first Apple I computer.
  • wifi

    wifi

    Microsoft announced the first version of Windows, a graphical user interface (GUI) for MS-DOS, aiming to make computers easier to use with windows, menus, and a mouse.
  • Tim Berners lee

    Tim Berners lee

    Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955, in London, England. He later became a computer scientist best known for inventing the World Wide Web, which transformed how information is shared and accessed worldwide.
  • wifi

    wifi

    In August 1991, NCR Corporation (later part of ATT) developed the technology based on the IEEE 802.11 standard, laying the groundwork for Wi-Fi.
  • iphone

    iphone

    On January 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone during a keynote at the Macworld Conference.
  • chrome book

    chrome book

  • apple watch

    apple watch

    It was designed to work alongside the iPhone and offered features like fitness tracking, notifications, and apps right on your wrist.