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The history of the PC

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Abacus

    Abacus
    Between 1000 and 500 BC, the abacus was invented in Babylonia.
  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal
    In 1642, Blaise Pascal made the Arithmetic Machine. He used it to count money.
  • Leibinitz

    Leibinitz
    In the 1670s, Leibinitz made a machine called Step Reckoner
  • Babbage's machine

    Babbage's machine
    In the 1820s Charles Babbage invented the Difference Engine,his first machine. Years later, Babbage began work in the Analytical machine.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer in the world, worked with Babbage and she wrote a program for the analytical engine.
    In 1979, a modern computer programming language was named ADA.
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    In 1937 Alan Turing wrote the idea of a machine that could read programs. In 1939 Alan Turing worked with other mathematicians in building machines to break secret codes
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    Konrad Zuse, was considered one of the best inventor of the 1930s. their machines could compare it with today's machines
  • Period: to

    Enigma Machine

    During the second World War, the Germans were using machines called enigma machines to send messages in code. Alan Turing began working on a computer to break this code.
  • Colossus

    Colossus
    Alan Turing and other mathematicians invented colossus at Bletchley Park
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen started Microsoft
  • Apple Computer

    Apple Computer
    In 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded the Apple Computer.
  • IBM

    IBM
    IBM made their first home computer in 1981.
    In the 1980s. There were many different computer companies ( Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Amstrad, Acorn
  • Internet

    Internet
    The Internet started in the 1970s, but was only used by
    governments and universities.
    In 1990s, the World Wide Web is founded by Tim Berners-Lee ,years later Sergey and Larry Page started Google.
  • Napster

    Napster
    Shawn Fanning started napster,it was the first company to share music in internet