My computer padlet by https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1 Brief history of computers en-us 2016-10-10 14:27:06 UTC 2026-01-02 09:15:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png 1822: English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533422 2016-10-10 14:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533422 1890: Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census, accomplishing the task in just three years and saving the government $5 million. His company would become IBM cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533511 2016-10-10 14:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533511 1936: Alan Turing presents the notion of a universal machine, later called the Turing machine, capable of computing anything that is computable. The central concept of the modern computer was based on his ideas. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533594 2016-10-10 14:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533594 1943-1944: Two University of Pennsylvania professors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). It fills a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533656 2016-10-10 14:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533656 1953: Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533857 1954: The FORTRAN programming language is born ]]> 2016-10-10 14:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129533857 1964: Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534038 2016-10-10 14:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534038 1971: Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the “floppy disk.” cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534082 2016-10-10 14:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534082 1974-1977: A number of personal computers hit the market, including Mark-8 Altair, IBM 5100, RadioShack’s TRS-80 cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534144 2016-10-10 14:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534144 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534198 2016-10-10 14:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534198 1978: Accountants rejoice at the introduction of VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet program. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534309 2016-10-10 14:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534309 1981: The first IBM personal computer, code-named “Acorn,” is introduced. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534416 2016-10-10 14:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534416 1985: Microsoft announces Windows, its response to Apple’s GUI. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534500 2016-10-10 14:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534500 1990: A researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, develops the HTML Language  giving rise to the World Wide Web. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534563 2016-10-10 14:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534563 1999: The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534864 2016-10-10 14:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534864 2007: The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534925 2016-10-10 14:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129534925 2015: Apple releases the Apple Watch. cttiger https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129535002 2016-10-10 14:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cttiger/yuvfvrtysww1/wish/129535002