By Ankit Dhandhania
The computer was invented by Charles Babbage in early 19 th century. The computer was not first
discovered for email or entertainment it was invented for counting population of United States of
America because at that time the population was grown so much that it took seven years to tabulate
the USA census.
The computer has developed so much that today we carry more computing power than these early
models of computers.
In 1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom machines that helps punched wooden cards to
automatically weave fabric designs. In that time similar punched cards were used in computers.
Then in 1822 Charles Babbage invented a steam like machine that helps the computer to count the
numbers and that which would be ale to compute the table numbers. After that in 1890 Herman
Hollerith designed a system which runs with help of punch cards which helped the government to
calculate early 1990 population and saved $5million of government in just three years. Then in 1936
Alan Turing presented the notion of universal machine, later it was renamed to Turing machine and
the concept of modern computer is based on his ideas. Then a professor of physics and mathematics
in low state university attempted to build the first computer without gears and cams. It was followed
by Atanasoff and his student to build the and design a computer than can solve 29 questions
simultaneously in 1941.
In 1964 Douglas Engelbart showed up a prototype of modern computer with mouse and graphical
user interface this marks the evolution of computer from specialized for scientist and mathematician
technology that is more accessible to the public. In 1969 A group of Bells Labs produced an UNIX an
operating system that addressed compatibility issue written in Coding language. UNIX was portable
across multiple platforms and became the operating system of choice among the mainframes at
government and big popular companies. After that it was followed by introducing first Dynamic
Access Memory (DRAM)chip. After that till 1973 the external storage like floppy disk etc was
developed and also other hardware like xerox, ethernet cables was also developed.
In 1975 worlds first minicomputer was invented by two great peoples Paul Allen and Bill Gates. On
April 4 two childhood friends started their own software company named Microsoft. In 1976 Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak started apple computers on April fool day and roll out their first computer in
Stanford university.
In 1981 the first IBM Personal computer was invented. It was having MS dos operating system, 2
floppy disk and colour monitor and also intel chip Computer land sell the machine making first PC
available through computers. It was followed by Apple’s Lisa was the first portable personal
computer. It was having feature of drop-down menu and icons. It was flopped but eventually evolves
into Macintosh, the portable computer was named laptop. Then in 1985 the history of internet was
created by introducing first .com domain name by Symbolic Computers. The years of 1990s was very
important for the computers history as Tim Berner Lee developed Hyper Text Mark language(http)
and gave rise to world wide web.
In 1994 PCs became as gaming machine and then Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed the Google
search engine in Stanford university. In 1997 Microsoft invested $150million in Apple which was
struggling at that time due to court case against Microsoft which is alleged that Microsoft copied
look and feel. Wi-Fi was followed by this in 1999 and user began to connect internet without wires.
Coming to 2000s in 2001 the Apple introduced MAC OS system which provided security system and
multi-tasking technology. In 2004 Mozilla was introduced which was challenging Microsoft and
Internet Explorer.
In 2005-15 the market had been introduced with Nintendo gaming, Wii and You tube. Apple also
introduced first Mac book pro. The iPhone came into existence and had the computer technology
into it. Apple in 2010 introduced iPad which was a change to consumer lifestyle. After that Google
launched chrome book and a laptop that runs OS system.
Till now there is these types of computers only with some changes in it.
sources acknowledged:
https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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