The History of Computers
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| What is a computer? | 3500 BC: Stone Henge |
| 300 BC: First calculator: Abacus | 1642: Pascaline Calculator |
| 1600's Leibniz's Discoveries | 1822: Babbage and the Punched Card |
| 1842: The world's first programmer | 1890: the birth of IBM |
| 1941: Harvard Mark I and Vacuum Tubes | 1945: Grace Hopper and The first computer "bug |
| 1946: ENIAC | 1951: Transitors |
| Programming Languages | 1965: Integrated Circuits |
| 1975: Altair: The first Personal Computer | 1976: Jobs and Wozniacs garage: Apple |
| 1981: IBM and PC's | 1982: The Man Of the Year |
| 1986: If computers were cars | 1990: The World Wide Web |
| 1992: The GUI |