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2015: Apple releases the Apple Watch. Microsoft releases Windows 10.

The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone.

Google releases the Chromebook, a laptop that runs the Google Chrome OS.

The first 64-bit processor, AMD's Athlon 64, becomes available to the consumer market.

English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers.

Alan Turing presents the notion of a universal machine, later called the Turing machine, capable of computing anything that is computable. The central concept of the modern computer was based on his ideas.

Hewlett-Packard is founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett in a Palo Alto, California, garage

The first IBM personal computer, code-named "Acorn," is introduced. It uses Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system.

Apple's Lisa is the first personal computer with a GUI.

Facebook gains 1 billion users on October 4