- Charles Babbage's Difference Engine (designed to calculate and print mathematical tables) is developed in the 19th Century
- Ada Byron conceives the first computer program
- Alan Turing devises the first working computer, The Bombe, during World War 2 to break German Enigma codes
- The first generation of computers are made available by IBM in the 1950's. These large machines are adopted primarily for government, business, and military use
- The first PC (personal computer) is made available in 1975. Bill Gates writes a programming language known as BASIC, and soon starts his own business, Microsoft
- The Apple computer (the Apple 1) is developed in the 1970's, costing $666.60
- IBM and Microsoft produce an operating system DOS 1.0, and eventually this partnership dominates the personal computer market
- Linux is developed in 1991
- Apple sees something of a resurgence in 1998 with the return of Steve Jobs
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Internet Time line
- In the 1960's the RAND corporation develops the idea of a communication, command and control network that could survive nuclear war
- The US Department of Defence funds a program which eventually produces ARPANET in the late 1960's
- The World-Wide-Web is developed in the 1990's which uses internetworking and hyper text to make an easy to use but powerful system.
- Internet browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape are developed in the early 90's
- Instant messaging, p2p file sharing, VoIP/voice chat, and social networking sites like myspace/facebook come to prominence in the 2000's.
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