The world of computing and computers has come a long way ever since UNIVAC I was unveiled as the world’s first commercial electronic computer on June 14, 1951. This year marks the 68th year of this advancement in computing. During these years, man has used his ingenuity, logic, creativity and business acumen to evolve the large and bulky computers that occupied a whole room to the small and sleek gadgets we carry in our bags. Man’s quest to use machines for assistance began in 1801 when Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French weaver, and merchant, invented a loom that used punched wooden cards to weave fabric designs automatically. It is said that the primitive designs of early computers used the same punch cards. Nearly 21-years later, in 1822, Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, conceived of a steam-driven calculating machine. Although his design could not live up to expectations, it did accentuate the need for a sustainable computing machine. The first breakthrough in computers, however, came in 1890 when Herman Hollerith’s punch card system computed the census date of 1880 in the US. Hollerith’s company was eventually called IBM or International Business Machines. It is today the world’s largest company in terms of sales. Alan Turing in 1936 worked on a universal machine to calculate numbers. In 1939 David Packard and Bill Hewlett formed Hewlett-Packard that is the global leader in developing personal computers, printers, and computer-related accessories, gadgets, and supplies. Advancements in computers came forth in 1941 when John Vincent Atanasoff, an American physicist and inventor, and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, designed a computer capable of solving 29 equations simultaneously. This system was also the first to store information in a memory. Two years later, in 1943, University of Pennsylvania Professors John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert built the first and the most primitive form of digital computers, Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. The integrated circuit led to the development of the modern computer by Douglas Engelbart in 1964 With 18,000 vacuum tubes and a size of 20 by 40 feet, the gigantic computer’s design was vetted by scientists, mathematicians and programmers to create their version of computers. A series of developments in computing took place, including the launch of a transistor by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories in 1947; Grace Hopper developing the first computer language, COBOL, in 1953; IBM developing the FORTRAN programming language in 1954 and Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce producing the integrated circuit or the computer chip in 1958. This integrated circuit reduced the massive size of these computers that occupied a room and reduced them considerably to fit out desks, laps and hands. Jack Kilby received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his work. The integrated circuit led to the development of modern computer by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, which had a mouse and a graphical user interface. This computer was the first to be made available for the public. The progress in computing that followed brought to fore the floppy disk in 1971 to store data developed by Alan Shugart and an Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and hardware developed by Robert Metcalfe in 1973. The early designs of the personal computers, we know today, were publicized during the 1980s and 1990s with Apple Computers and Microsoft leading the way. Today, our desktop computers along with laptops and Smartphones have evolved beyond recognition. They facilitate our communication, assist in academic, personal and professional activities and provide us with avenues of entertainment and whatever learning and research we desire. The writer is an independent researcher