Timeline of computing facts for kids

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.