The History of

Computing
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The computer was born…

…not for entertainment…

…BUT! out of need to solve…

NUMBER
CRUNCHING
CRISIS
Mechanical Era
Zeroth Generation Computers
 ABACUS
2700 B.C.

2700 B.C.
History of Computers
1642 – Pascaline
Blaise Pascal
A French Mathematician
invented Pascaline due to the reason
of technophobia
1642

History of Computers
 1660 – Leibniz
Wheel
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
German Mathematician
Created the machine that can perform
all four calculations.
1660

History of Computers
1820 – Difference
Engine
Charles Babbage
English Mathematician
Known as the
Father of Computers
1820

History of Computers
1830 – Analytical
Engine
Can execute operations
in non-numerical order
by adding
conditional controls
1830

History of Computers
1830 – Ada
Lovelace
The First Programmer
English Mathematician
Created the
Bernoulli Algorithm
1830 Engine
for the Analytical

History of Computers
1890 – Tabulator
Herman Hollerith
Created the
Tabulator

1890

History of Computers
 1804 –
Jacquard’s Loom
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Invented a
weaving machine

1804

History of Computers
1890

History of Computers
1936 – Turing
Machine
Alan Turing
The Father
of modern computers
Invented the
1936
Turing Machine

History of Computers
1936 – Zuse Z1
Konrad Zuse
A German Engineer
Created the first
Programmable Computer
1936

History of Computers
1937 – Harvard
Mark 1
Howard Aiken
An American Engineer
Collaborated with IBM
to create the Harvard Mark 1
1937

History of Computers
1937 – Debugging
Grace Hopper
Helped in the
Creation of
the Harvard Mark 1
1937

History of Computers
Vacuum Tubes
EraComputers
First Generation
1937-1942 – ABC
Clifford Berry &
John Atanasoff
Created the first
Automatic
1937
Digital Computer

History of Computers
1943 – Colossus
Alan Turing,
Tommy Flowers &
Bill Tutte
Created the first
1943
Programmable
Digital Computer

History of Computers
1946 – ENIAC
John William Mauchly &
J. Presper Eckert
Designed the
Electronic Numerical
1943 and
Integrator
Computer

History of Computers
1950 – EDVAC
John William Mauchly,
J. Presper Eckert &
John Von Neumann
Electronic Discrete
Variable1950
Automatic
Computer

History of Computers
 Transistor Era
Second Generation Computers
 1947
William Shockley,
John Bardeen
and Walter Brattain
Invented
the transistor
at Bell Laboratories

History of Computers
 1951
Silicon Transistor
John Bardeen &
Walter Brattain
Created the
first transistor
at Bell Laboratory

History of Computers
 1951
R.A.M.
Jay Wright
Forrester
Introduced the Random
Access Memory
Core Storage

History of Computers
 MOT
1953 H

C.O.B.O.L.
Grace Hopper
developed the
first computer language,
known as the
Common Business
Oriented Language

History of Computers
1954 - TRADIC
Jean Howard Felkner
TRAnsistor Digital
Computer or
Transistorized Airborne
Digital1954
Computer 1954
 1957
Hard Drive
IBM
Introduced the
very first
1957
RAMAC 305
Hard Drive

History of Computers
 Integrated
Circuit
Third Era
Generation Computers
 1958
Integrated
Circuit
Jack Kilby and
Robert Noyce
revealed the
Integrated Circuit (IC),
known1957
as the 1958
computer chip.
 1964
Modern
Computer
Douglas Engelbart
Introduced the
Modern Computer
1964
Design
Microprocessor
Fourth Generation Computers
 1971
Intel 4004
Gordon Moore,
Robert Noyce &
Andrew Grove
1971
Redesigned
Semiconductors
 1971
Floppy Disk
Alan Shugart
Allows data
to be shared
1971
 1973
Ethernet
Robert Metcalfe
Allows data
to be shared
1971 1973
 1975
Altair 8080
Paul Allen and
Bill Gates
developed the
1973 1975
software for the
Altair 8080
 1976
Apple I
Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak
rolled out
1975 1976
the Apple I
 Artificial
Intelligence
Fifth Generation Computers
 1981
Acorn PC
IBM
Personal Computer
with MS-DOS
1981
Operating System
 1983
LISA
APPLE
Personal Computer
with GUI
1981 1983
(Graphical User Interface)
 1983
Gavilan SC
Portable Computer
with GUI
(Graphical User Interface)
1983
 1983
Gavilan SC
Portable Computer
with GUI
(Graphical User Interface)
1983
 1990
HTML
Tim Berners-Lee
Developer
of the
1990
Hyper Text
Mark-up Language
 1990’s
i386 and Pentium
Intel
developed
powerful processors
1990 1993
 1994
Gaming
Machines
Personal Computers
Became
Gaming Machines
 1996
Google Search
Engine
Sergey Brin and
Larry Page
developed the
Google search engine
 1999
Wireless FIdelity
WIFI
joined the
world of
computing
 2001
Mac Os X
Apple
unveiled an
Operating System
with high security
 2004
Web Browsers
The challengers
of the Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer
 2006
MacBook Proand
Iphone
Apple
unveiled an
Intel-based and
dual core mobile
computer
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2009 – windows 7
In 2009, Microsoft launched Windows 7, which
offered the ability to pin applications to the
taskbar and advanced touch and handwriting
recognition, among other features.
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2010 – ipad
2010 saw the change in how consumers
view media with the appearance of Apple’s
iPad and made the tablet computer
segment feasible.
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2011 – chromebook
In 2011, Google released the Chromebook, a laptop
that ran on the Google Chrome OS.
The evolution of 55

computing
technology
continues…