Summary Time LinesBroken down by themes

HardwareAncient times – Astronomical

clocks

1652 Pascaline1837 Babbage

Analytical Engine

1946 ENIAC

1944 Mark I

Vacuum Tubes

1959 IBM 7090Transistor 1959 PDP-1 Minicomputer

1978 Altair 8800

1977 Apple II

1981 IBM PC

2007 IPhone2015 Apple Watch

Algorithms & Software

300 BC Euclid’s Elements

1801 Jacquard Loom

1837 Babbage / Lovelace

1936 Turing Machine

1945 Von Neumann architecture

1957 Fortran

1959 COBOL

1972 C / Unix

1990 Windows 3

Artificial Intelligence

1950 Turing Test

1960 J. C. R. Licklider: Man-Computer Symbiosis

1956 John McCarthy 1st A. I. Conference

1970 MIT AI Lab Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert

1997 IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess

1997 - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Networking 1948 Claude Shannon - A Mathematical Theory of Communication

1963 J. C. R. Licklider “Intergalactic Computer Network”

1969 ARPANET

1989 Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web1993 Mosaic – First modern browser

1995 Alta Vista search engine

1983 Richard Stallman founds free software movement

2004 Mark Zuckerberg founds Facebook

2001 Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia