Timeline of computing
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Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by year and grouped into six topic areas: predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processors, operating systems, programming languages, and new application areas.
Detailed computing timelines: before 1950, 1950–1979, 1980–1989, 1990–1999, 2000–2009, 2010–2019, 2020–present
Graphical timeline
See also
- History of compiler construction
- History of computing hardware – up to third generation (1960s)
- History of computing hardware (1960s–present) – third generation and later
- History of the graphical user interface
- History of the Internet
- History of the World Wide Web
- List of pioneers in computer science
- Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering
- Microprocessor chronology
Resources
- Stephen White, A Brief History of Computing
- The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems.
- The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks
- "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
External links
- Visual History of Computing 1944-2013 (archived)
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Timelines of computing
- Kathleen Antonelli
- John Vincent Atanasoff
- Charles Babbage
- John Backus
- Jean Bartik
- George Boole
- Vint Cerf
- John Cocke
- Stephen Cook
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
- J. Presper Eckert
- Adele Goldstine
- Lois Haibt
- Betty Holberton
- Margaret Hamilton
- Grace Hopper
- David A. Huffman
- Bob Kahn
- Brian Kernighan
- Andrew Koenig
- Semyon Korsakov
- Nancy Leveson
- Ada Lovelace
- Donald Knuth
- Joseph Kruskal
- Douglas McIlroy
- Marlyn Meltzer
- John von Neumann
- Klára Dán von Neumann
- Dennis Ritchie
- Guido van Rossum
- Claude Shannon
- Frances Spence
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- Ruth Teitelbaum
- Ken Thompson
- Linus Torvalds
- Alan Turing
- Paul Vixie
- Larry Wall
- Stephen Wolfram
- Niklaus Wirth
- Steve Wozniak
- Konrad Zuse