1926-1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak | Personal Computer
programming language, and a display monitor, the Apple I laid the groundwork for one of the most successful tech companies the United States and the world has ever known, while making computers a household item. Steve Wozniak designed it a year
earlier to serve as his personal computer and showed it off at the Silicon Valley Homebrew Computer Club. It received a great reception, triggering him to team up with Steve Jobs to form Apple Computers. Surviving Apple I computers are exceedingly rare in part because only 200 were ever made, and when the duo launched the Apple II, they off ered owners the option to trade in the original and took them out of service. Honorable mentions:
W
ith a wink and nod to IBM’s invention of the first commercial computer in
1956, nothing during this 50-year segment can truly compete with the launch of the Apple I computer in 1976. Sold at the time for a teeth-clenching
1976-2026
Larry Page and Sergey Brin | Google
W
hile the telegraph and telephone
allowed Americans to speak from afar, this 50-year period in American history brought them together in ways Ben Franklin couldn’t have imagined. With apologies to Al
Gore, a British engineer proposed the concept of the World Wide Web, but it was Americans who took the new information superhighway and made it what it is today. Building on the earliest
search engines such as Archie, Gopher, and others, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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transformed online searching to become a cornerstone of the digital age. Launched in 1995 under the name Backrub and working from their dorm rooms at Stanford University, Page and Brin built the search engine to use links to determine the importance of individual pages on the web. A few years later, an
investor sunk $100,000 into the operation, and Google Inc. was born. Honorable mentions:
Scroll (mouse) wheel, 1993, Eric Michelman; iPhone, 2007.
$666, the business partners unveiled what would become a product built for computer enthusiasts and hobbyists alike. While nothing more than a
microprocessor with memory, rudimentary
Clarence Birdseye, 1929, off ered quick-frozen food
to the public; Robert Oppenheimer, first atomic bomb, developed between 1942 and 1945; first nuclear power plant, 1954; Robert Metcalfe, 1973, Ethernet.
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