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1801 Loom- invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard that used punched wooden cards

19th Century Analytical Engine – designed by Professor Charles Babbage that served
1890 Punch card system- IBM—Herman Hollerith in order to calculate the 1880 census
1936 Universal Turing Machine-presented by Alan Turing the machine
1937 First Generation Digital Computer-Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) built by Vacuum Tubes-
It was designed and built by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
1943-Colossus- an electronic computer built for the military.
1944-Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC)-finished by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
1946-Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC)- the first commercial computer for business and government applications.
1947-The Second Generation of digital computers used transistors—invented by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories.
1953- Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL)-developed by Grace Hopper the first computer language.
Thomas Johnson Watson Jr., son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson Sr., devised the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea during the war.
1954- FORmula TRANslation, or FORTRAN programming language-developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus.
1958- Integrated Circuit known as Computer chip-unveil by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1964- Graphical User Interface (GUI)-a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse unveiled by Douglas Engelbart.
1969-UNIX-an operating system that addressed compatibility invented by the group of developers at Bell Labs.
1970- Intel 1103- the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip. The CPU was known as the central processing unit,

1971-Floopy Disk-invented by IBM engineers lead by Alan Shugart. It allows data to be shared among computers.
1973-Ethernet-developed Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox.
January 1975-Attair 8080- issued by the Popular Electronics magazine.
It was described as the "world's first minicomputer kit to rival commercial models."
Paul Allen and Bill Gates-creator of the company Microsoft.
1976-Apple I-rolled by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The first computer with a single-circuit board. A year later, Jobs and Wozniak’s company—Apple,
unveiled the Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It offered color graphics and provided an audio cassette drive for storage.
1981-Acorn-the first appearance of first IBM personal computer. It used Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, and had an Intel chip, two floppy disks and an optional color monitor. This popularized the term PC.
1983-Lisa-the first personal computer with a GUI released by Apple. It featured a drop-down menu and icons. Lisa was the precursor to what eventually became the Macintosh
1985- Windows-announced by the Microsoft as a response to Apple's Lisa. Commodore unveils the Amiga 1000, which featured advanced audio and video capabilities.
1986-Deskpro 386-brought by Compaq to market. Its 32-bit architecture provided speed comparable to mainframes.
1990- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)- brought by Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, that give rise to the World Wide Web.
1990s-i386-the more-powerful processor which was the first 32-bit microprocessor available for commercial use. This microprocessor offered multitasking capabilities on personal desktop computers.
1993- Pentium processor- the first microprocessor capable of performing two instructions during each clock cycle and advanced the use of graphics and music on PCs.
1996-Google Search Engine- developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Stanford University. 1999-Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) –it became part of the computing language
2001- Mac OS X-introduced by Apple it was an Operating System that provided protected memory architecture and pre- emptive multi-tasking. Not to be outdone, Microsoft rolled out Windows XP,
2004- Mozilla's Firefox 1.0-a challenger to to Microsoft's Internet Explorer which was the dominant Web browser at that time.
2006-MacBook Pro-introduced by the first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac in 2006
2009-Windows 7-launched by Microsoft it has the ability to pin applications to the taskbar and advanced touch and handwriting recognition, among other features.
2010-Apple iPad-a tablet computer that is segment feasible. In 2011, Google released the Chromebook, a laptop that ran on the Google Chrome OS.
Apple released the Apple Watch in 2015, and Microsoft released the current version of its now multi-platform Operating System—Windows 10.
In 2016, the first reprogrammable Quantum Computer—which used of quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement

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