## Main events in computer history Obsviously, this subject could fit into encyclopediae. I don't pretend to tell you the history of computers, but here are some events and facts I like to keep notes on. Notable date : - **1837** : The first general-purpose and [Turing complete](Create%20a%20programming%20language.md#Turing%20completeness) computer is described by Charles Babbage and it's called the [Analytical Engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine). Unfortunately, never built. - **Late 1880** : The rise of Hertzian wave [wireless telegraphy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Wireless_telegraphy) and radiotelegraphy that would allow people to communicate wirelessly with telegraph devices. - **1945** : [ENIAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC), which was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose and Turing-complete digital computer. Built with vaccuum tubes and switches. - **1945** : [Memex](Memex.md), an hypothetical machine in the form of a desk to store all of ones books, records and communications, envised by Vannevar Bush. - **1947** : The [Transistor](Transistors.md) is invented at Bell Labs by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain under the management of William Shockley. - **1969** : [ARPANET](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET) is born, and it's first wide-area packet-switching network and the first to implement TCP/IP protocol suite which are both technology at the technical foundation of Internet. - **1974** : The introduction of the first true personal comptuer, the [Altair 8800](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800) which - **1991** : [The World Wide Web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web) is released to the general public and invented 2 years before by Tim Berners Lee. This allow people access documents and web resources from anywhere in the world, over the Internet.