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Hewlett Packard (HP)
December 26, 1791 (HP) The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939, and initially produced a line of electronic test and measurement equipment. The HP Garage at 367 Addison Avenue is now designated an official California Historical Landmark, and is marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley'. HP specialized in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware; designing software; and delivering services.
Altair 8800
he Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. According to Harry Garland, the Altair 8800 was the product that catalyzed the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s.
Apple 1
On March 5 1975, Steve Wozniak attended the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club in Gordon French's garage. Steve immediately went to work and after building a computer and showing it at the club, he and Steve Jobs gave out technical designs for the computer to interested club members and helped some of them build and test out copies. Then, Steve Jobs suggested that they design and sell a single circuit board, just the bare board, with no electronic parts that people could use to build the computers.
Apple 2
he Apple 2 was designed by Steve Wozniak, Jerry Manock developed the design of Apple 2's case and Rod Holt developed the switching power supply. Steve Jobs's role in the design of the computer was limited to overseeing Jerry Manock's work on the plastic case. It was introduced by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at the 1977 West Coast Computer Faire, and marks Apple's first launch of a personal computer. The Apple II computers were assembled in Silicon Valley
Macintosh
he first ever Apple Macintosch, Macintosch 128K, was made in 1984 by Apple inc.
Wifi
In 1991 in the Netherlands, the NCR Corporation and AT&T invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems. NCR's Vic Hayes approached the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to create a standard and were involved in designing the initial 802.11b and 802.11a specifications within the IEEE. They have both been subsequently inducted into the Wi-Fi.
Windows 3.1 en 95
:Windows 3.1 is a major release of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on April 6, 1992, as a successor to Windows 3.0. Windows 95 merged Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows products. There were also major changes made to the core components of the operating system, such as moving from a mainly cooperatively multitasked 16-bit architecture to a 32-bit preemptive multitasking architecture, at least when running only 32-bit protected mode applications
Google
>Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the original lead programmer who wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was officially founded as a company
YouTube
August 6, 1963 -YouTube is an online video sharing and social media platform. Accessible worldwide, it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
Twitter
Twitter, rebranding to X since July 2023, is an online social media and social networking service operated by the American company X Corp., the successor of Twitter, Inc. On Twitter, registered users can post texts, images and videos. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, via its application programming interfaces. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. It was launched in July of that year.
Iphone
The iPhone is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, and was released in the United States on June 29, 2007. In 1999, Apple CEO Steve Jobs envisioned an Apple touchscreen product that the user could interact with directly with their fingers rather than using a stylus