1642 - At 19 French inventor Beliase Pascal invented the first mechanical calculator. The calculator was able to add and subtract.
1674 - Gottfried Leibniz of Germany designs a machine able multiply and divide.
1834 - Charles Babbage invented a mechanical computer, called a "difference engine". The difference engine could calculate and print the calculations. However this machine or the later "analytical engine" were not built in his lifetime. The construction of the difference engine was in London in the 1900s.
1835 - Samuel Morse invented the Morse Code
1837 - William Cook and Charles Wheatstone invented the telegraph
1855 - G. Schnetz creates a calculating engine which was displayed in a Paris Exhibition
1876 - Alexander Bell invents the first telephone
1889 - Herman Hollerith invented a tabulating machine.
1896 - Herman Holleritih funds a company (Tabulating Machine Company) which later becomes IBM
1911 - TMC is changed to IBM (International Business Machines)
1926 - The first television is invented by John Logie Baird
1937 - Alan Turing develops the theoretical computing machine concept
1949-50 - Printed electronic circuits are invented
1950 - Big computers
1953 - IBM starts building big computers
1954 - Fortran programming language
1960 - first email programme called mailbox
1964 - IBM first word processor
1965 - first minicomputer
1971 - Microprocessor
1972 - pocket calculator, email between two machines
1975 - portable computer
1984 - Apple Macintosh introduces the mouse and window interface, CD-ROM and cyberspace
1986 - the internet takes shape
early 1900's - Wired networks number over 7,500 worldwide, reaching people in more than 75 countries
1995 - There are 30 to 40 million Internet users in the world (estimated).
Source: Internet Timeline
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