The Timeline of Computers by Samantha Panagapko

The Analytical Engine (1833)

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The analytical engine's first intention was to do calculations. But as the creation was in motion, using punch cards it would be able to read numbers and create some data. Charles Babbage invented it and worked on it until he died in 1971.

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

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Ada Lovelace is known for being the first person to write a computer programming code. She worked with one, Charles Babbage on the analytical engine by contributing her ideas into it which greatly helped.

iPhone (2007)

216158s — 2024-09-18 17:53:34 UTC

The iPhone is the biggest accomplishment of our time. From needing an entire desk to run one computer to make a calander, to now carrying them in our pockets is astonishing. Apple began in 1976 from Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, since then Apple continues to make new phones nearly every year.

IBM (1911)

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The biggest computer company in the world would have to go to IBM. It began as a company that held manufacturers of records and measuring systems. During WW2, IBM helped make several fast electromechanical calculators that were the first of electronic computers.

The Turing Machine (1936)

216158s — 2024-09-18 17:56:49 UTC

Alan Turing produced one of history's greatest achievements in terms of computers. The Turing Machine was designed to be a mathematical tool that could solve computer science problems. It tested the limits of computation and practically paved the way for what computers are now.

DvD (1996)

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The first DvD video was released in Japan in 1996, it didn't make its way over to America until 1997. This was a big step in video and computers because being able to watch this and take the movies with people for transport is easier than VHS tapes.

Binary (1689)

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the first people to invent what we call Binary code. He introduced a system based solely off of ones and zeroes. It represents all the numbers in the decimal system.

Microsoft (1975)

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Microsoft is the most famous software in the world. Bill Gates founded it in 1975 with Paul Allen. The company managed to move beyond software and towards the cloud. Microsoft is so mainstream that is it is able to respond to its criticism fast and is constantly able to move beyond its previous creations.

UNIVAC (1951)

216158s — 2024-09-18 18:05:39 UTC

The UNIVAC, or the Universal Automatic Computer I, was a machine designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly in 1946. It wasn't properly used until the 1950s when it was first put to use. It was able to keep track of population and economic census' back then. It was able to read 7,200 decimated digits in a second. It was then replaced with transistor computers later in the 50s.

Punched Cards (1804)

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Joseph-Marie Jacquard created the punch cards. Punch cards were pieces of paper with specific holes placed in the paper which each held important pieces of data. A hole meaning 1 and no hole meaning a 0.