John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was the inventor of the computer.

 

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer so is considered as the father of the computer.

 

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of “algorithm” and “computation” with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

 

Lawrence Gordon Tesler (April 24, 1945 – February 16, 2020) Invented the concepts for computers in 1973 to Cut, Copy & Paste and find & replace

Some Inventions in Computers and Printing Industry

Discoverer

Year

Discovery

Abacus

2400 BC

Calculator

Pingala

300 BC

Binary Numbers

Heron of Alexandria

60 AD

Machine taking instructions

Johannes Gutenberg

1440

Letterpress Printing

Da Vinci

1490

Flying Machines, Mechanical Calculator

Blaise Pascal

1642

Pascaline (mechanical adding machine)

Charles Babbage

1822

Analytical Engine

Samuel Morse

1835

Morse Code

Richard March Hoe

1843

Rotary Printing Press

Alexander Graham Bell, Antonio Meucci

1854

Telephone

Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden, John Pratt

1873

Typewriter with QWERTY Keyboard

Robert Barclay

1875

Rotary Offset Lithographic Printing Press

David Gestetner

1881

Cyclostyle

Guglielmo Marconi

1895

Radio Signals

Samuel Simon

1907

Screen Printing

Charles Ranlett Flint

June 16th, 1911

International Business Machine (IBM)

Philo Farnsworth, Charles Francis Jenkins, John Logie Baird

September 7th, 1927

Television

John Vincent Atanasoff

1930

Electronic Digital Computer

Alan Turning

1937

Theoretical Computing Machine

William Hewellet, David Packard

1939

Hewlett Packard (HP)

Hedy Kiesler Markey

August 11th 1942

Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology

Alan Turning

1943

Code Breaking Machine – Colossus

Dr. John W. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (Moore School of Electrical Engineering)

February 15th 1946

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)

Claude Shannon

1949

Chess Playing Machine

Geoffrey Hinton

1950

Father of AI

Hideo Yamachito

1950

Electronic Computer

Arthur Samuel

1952

Checkers (1st computer game)

Dr. Grace Hopper

1953

Compiler

George Devol

1954

Robot (Ultimate)

John McCarthy

1955

Artificial Intelligence (word coined)

John McCarthy, Alan Turing, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon

1957

Artificial Intelligence

Douglas Engelbart, Bill English (Stanford Research Center)

1964

Computer Mouse Prototype

IBM

1964

Word Processor

Jack Kilby (Texas Instruments)

1964

Integrated Circuits

Leonard Kleinrock

1969

Intel

1970

RAM Chip, Microprocessor, Intel 4004

Douglas Engelbart, Bill English (Stanford Research Center)

November 17, 1970

X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System (Computer Mouse Patent Issued)

Ray Tomlinson

1971

Email

Norman Abramson, Franklin Kuo

1971

Wireless Network / Wireless Local Area Network (formerly ALOHAnet)

Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, Joe Ossanna

3rd November 1971

Unix Operating System

Atari

1972

Pong (first commercial video game)

Dennis Ritchie

1972

C Programming Language

Jack Nilles

1973

Telecommuting

Martin Cooper

April 3, 1973

Mobile Phone (Motorola)

Gerald Anderson “Jerry” Lawson

1975

Video Game

Paul Allen, Bill Gates

1975

Microsoft

Steve Sasson (Eastman Kodak)

1975

Cromemco Cyclops (Digital Camera)

Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne

April 2nd, 1976

Apple Computers

Michael Shrayer

December 1976

Electric Pencil (Word Processor)

Robert Metcalfe

1977

Ethernet

Dr. Spencer Silver (3M)

1977

Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf

1978

Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

John Warnock, Charles Geschke

December 1982

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Scott Fahlman

1982

Emoticon

John Walker, Dan Drake

1982

Autodesk

Lotus Software

1983

Lotus 1-2-3 Spread Sheet

Paul Brainerd, Jeremy Jaech, Mike Templeman, Dave Walter, Mark Sundstrom

February 1984

Aldus

February 1984

Personal Computer (Macintosh)

Patrick Nichols

1985

Corel Corporation

Shyam Sunder Goenka, Bharat Goenka

1986

Tally

Fujio Masuoka

1988

Flash Memory

Thomas Knoll, John Knoll (Adobe)

February 1990

Adobe Photoshop

Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau

6th August 1991

World Wide Web (WWW)

Tim Berners-Lee

1991

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Guido van Rossum

1991

Python (Programming Language)

University of Cambridge

1991

WebCam

Linus Torvalds

17th September 1991

Linux

Sun Microsystems

June 1992

Sun Solaris

Nathaniel Borenstein, Ned Freed

14th June 1992

Email Attachment

Dr. O’Sullivan, Terence Percival, Graham Daniels, Diet Ostry, John Deane

1992

Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)

Neil Papworth (Sema Group Telecoms)

1992

Text Message

Marc Andreessen

1993

Mosaic Browser

Team Camelot (Adobe)

June 15, 1993

PDF

Ethan Zuckerman

1994

Pop-up Ads

Marc Andreessen

1994

Netscape Browser

Rasmus Lerdorf (Zend Technologies)

1994

PHP

Masahiro Hara (DENSO WAVE) https://www.qrcode.com/

1994

QR (Quick Response) Code

USB Implementers Forum

1995

Universal Serial Bus (USB)

Jerry Yang, David Filo

2nd March 1995

Yahoo!

James Gosling

23rd May 1995

Java

MySQL AB (Oracle Corporation)

23rd May 1995

MySQL

Microsoft

1995

Internet Explorer Browser

Brendan Eich

4th December 1995

JavaScript

Tim Berners Lee

1996

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Jack Smith, Sabeer Bhatia

1996

Hotmail

Toshiba

1996

DVD (SD-3000)

Håkon Wium Lie; Bert Bos

17th December 1996

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

Yahoo!

1997

Yahoo Mail

Sergey Brin, Larry Page

4th September 1998

Google

Wikimedia Foundation

January 2001

Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little

27th May 2003

WordPress

Paul Buchheit

1st April 2004

GMail

Linus Torvalds

2005

Git

jQuery Team

26th August 2006

jQuery

Google

2008

Chrome Browser

10gen software company

11th February 2009

MongoDB

Ryan Dahl

2009

Node.js

Isaac Z. Schlueter

2010

Node Package Manager (npm)

TJ Holowaychuk

16th November 2010

Express JS

Apple

2010

iPad

Mark Otto, Jacob Thornton

Aug 2011

BootStrap

Microsoft

29th July 2015

Edge Browser