The computer has much history; there was a time a truck needs to carry just an ordinary CPU you can put in your bag nowadays. Let’s take a brief look at how computers started and how we get to where we are now. With many online brands available such as Apple, Dell, Samsung, and others, it’s good to know how much computers have changed. It will also help you to appreciate your brand. Online reviews about brands can provide more insights into your brand’s good and flaws.
- 1801: Joseph Jacquard Marie invents a loom in which it automatically weaves cloth patterns using punched wooden cards. Early computers will use identical punch cards.
- 1822: Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, conceives of a steam-driven computing machine that could calculate tables of numbers. The initiative, sponsored by the government of England, is a disappointment. However, more than a century after, the first machine in the world was finally constructed.
- 1890: To measure the 1880 census, Herman Hollerith designs a punch card scheme, accomplishing the job in just three years and saving $5 million for the nation. He founded a corporation that would eventually become IBM.
- 1936: The concept of a universal computer, later named the Turing machine, is introduced by Alan Turing, capable of calculating all that is computable. Based on his theories, the fundamental principle of the digital machine
- 1939: According to the Computer History Museum, Hewlett-Packard is founded in a Palo Alto, California, garage by David Packard and Bill Hewlett.
- 1953: The first programming language is created by Grace Hopper, which ultimately became known as COBOL. The IBM 701 EDPM was conceived by Thomas Johnson Watson Jr., son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson Sr., to help the United Nations keep track of Korea after the war.
- 1954: The FORTRAN programming language is developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus.
- 1973: Robert Metcalfe, a member of Xerox’s research team, creates Ethernet to connect numerous computers and other hardware.
- 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduce Apple Computers on April fool’s Day, according to Stanford University, and roll out the Apple I, the first single-circuit board computer.
- 1985: Microsoft, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, declares Windows. It was the reaction of the company to the GUI of Apple. Commodore introduces the Amiga 1000, which has enhanced audio and video capability.
- 1985: On March 15, years before the World Wide Web marked the official beginning of Internet history, the first dot-com domain name was registered. Symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics Computer Company, a small Massachusetts computer maker. More than two years later, there were just 100 dot-coms listed.
- 1990: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is created by Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, Geneva’s high-energy physics laboratory, giving birth to the World Wide Web.
- 1996: Sergey Brin and Larry Page create Stanford University’s Google search engine.
- 1997: Microsoft spends $150 million on Apple, which was failing at the time, ending Microsoft’s legal battle against Apple, arguing that Microsoft stole the