An example of peripherals are: Printers Scanners External Drives Peripherals are hardware devices.
A Monitor is Hardware
First we had computers. These things were huge and required lots of metal and other "hard" objects. We started calling the computer Hardware. Then, in order to make these machines useful we started...
thing that came into existence at a particular point in time
Peripheral Hardware is hardware such as Mice, Keyboards, monitors. Anything the computer doesn't require to run.