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
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Graphical timeline
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History of compiler construction
In computing, a compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language or computer language (the ''source language''), into another computer language (the ''target language'', often having a binary form known ...
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History of computing hardware – up to third generation (1960s)
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History of computing hardware (1960s–present) – third generation and later
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History of the graphical user interface
The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icon (computing), icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles. Se ...
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History of the Internet
The history of the Internet has its origin in information theory and the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks. The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and de ...
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History of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or, simply, "the Web") is a global information medium which users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service tha ...
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List of pioneers in computer science
This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.
Pioneers
: ''To arrange the list by date or person (ascending or descending), click that column's small "up-do ...
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Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering
The following timeline tables list the discoveries and inventions in the history of electrical and electronic engineering.
History of discoveries timeline
History of associated inventions timeline
List of IEEE Milestones
The following li ...
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Microprocessor chronology
Resources
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''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 system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
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External links
Visual History of Computing1944-2013 (archived)
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Digital Revolution