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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

Video hosting service IEEE 802.11 blog wiki Web search engine World Wide Web WYSIWYG Port Island Line Usenet CATS (trading system) VisiCalc email Pong Non-linear video editing NLS (computer system) The Mother of All Demos Proof assistant CDC 6600 Bulletin board system Spacewar (video game) computer reservations system timesharing compiler compiler CSIRAC Microsoft Power Fx C++20 Bosque (programming language) Fortran 2018 Q Sharp C++17 Raku (programming language) C++14 Swift TypeScript Elm (programming language) Elixir (programming language) Kotlin C++11 Rust CoffeeScript Clojure Go (programming language) PowerShell F Sharp (programming language) Scala (programming language) ActionScript C Sharp (programming language) D (programming language) XSLT PHP Objective Caml Ruby (programming language) Java (programming language) JavaScript Delphi (programming language) AppleScript Visual Basic Python (programming language) Haskell Mathematica Tcl Erlang Perl SQL (programming language) HyperCard Objective-C Eiffel (programming language) Caml PostScript PARADOX programming language Common Lisp Turbo Pascal C++ Ada (programming language) DBASE Rexx AWK SQL Modula-2 VisiCalc IDL (programming language) FORTRAN 77 Scheme (programming language) ML (programming language) Prolog C (programming language) Smalltalk Forth (programming language) Pascal (programming language) B (programming language) PLI Logo (programming language) ALGOL 68 BCPL FORTRAN 66 BASIC SNOBOL Simula APL (programming language) COBOL MAD (programming language) Lisp (programming language) ALGOL 58 FORTRAN I Mark I Autocode A-0 System Plankalkül Windows Server 2022 Windows 11 Windows Server 2019 ArcaOS Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 Windows Server 2012 R2 Qubes OS Windows Server 2012 Windows 8 Chrome OS Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 Android (operating system) Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista iOS Windows Server 2003 R2 Ubuntu (operating system) ReactOS Windows Server 2003 Gentoo Linux z/OS Windows XP Mac OS X Windows 2000 Windows Me Mac OS history Mac OS history BlackBerry OS Windows 98 FreeDOS Symbian Mac OS history SUSE Linux MkLinux Windows 95 OS/390 OpenBSD Red Hat Linux Debian Slackware Windows NT UnixWare SLS Linux OS/2 Windows 3.1x Solaris Operating Environment Linux OSF/1 BeOS SCO UNIX NEXTSTEP POSIX OS/400 RISC OS Windows 2.0 OS/2 Minix IRIX HP-UX Apple IIgs AIX (operating system) Mach Windows 1.0 Atari TOS AmigaOS GNU Mac OS history UNIX System V Apple Lisa SunOS MS-DOS OS-9 Virtual Memory System Apple DOS CP/M operating system MVS VM/CMS RSTS-11 RT-11 Unix TOPS-20 Airline Control Program WAITS CP/CMS Michigan Terminal System Incompatible Timesharing System Multics OS/360 TOPS-10 Dartmouth Time Sharing System General Comprehensive Operating System Burroughs MCP CTSS IBSYS SHARE Operating System University of Michigan Executive System GM-NAA I/O IBM Q System One List of AMD Ryzen processors iPad Intel Core Intel Core Intel Core IPhone (1st generation) Amazon Kindle Cell (microprocessor) Intel Core 2 Pentium Dual-Core Pentium D Athlon 64 PowerPC 970 Itanium POWER4 Pentium 4 Athlon List of Intel Pentium III processors List of Intel Celeron processors iMac List of Intel Pentium II processors AMD K6 List of Intel Pentium processors AMD K5 Power Macintosh PowerPC 600 Pentium (original) i486 IBM PS/2 Connection Machine Acorn Archimedes ARM architecture Amstrad 1512 Commodore Amiga Atari ST i386 MIPS architecture IBM AT Apple Macintosh IBM PCjr IBM XT Apple Lisa Apple IIe

Intel 80286 Commodore 64 BBC Micro IBM PC ZX81 Apple III ZX80 Commodore VIC-20 Motorola 68000 Intel 8086 TRS-80 Apple II VAX-11 Commodore PET Apple I Cray-1 MOS Technologies 6502 Zilog Z80 Altair 8800 Motorola 6800 Intel 8080 Intel 8008 Intel 4004 PDP-11 Datapoint 2200 PDP-10 BESM CDC 6600 PDP-8 IBM 360 PDP-6 ReserVec ATLAS computer IBM 7030 Stretch CDC 1604 PDP-1 IBM 1401 AN/FSQ-7 UNIVAC II IBM 608 IBM 305 RAMAC Harwell CADET IBM 704 IBM 650 Strela computer IBM 701 UNIVAC 1101 Whirlwind (computer) UNIVAC I LEO (computer) Ferranti Mark 1 Manchester Mark 1 Small-Scale Experimental Machine IBM SSEC ENIAC Colossus computer Harvard Mark I Z3 (computer) Atanasoff–Berry Computer Docker (software) Cryptocurrency Tor (anonymity network) Onion routing PCI Express Serial ATA Blade server Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Accelerated Graphics Port DVD-ROM USB IEEE 1394 interface Beowulf (computing) DNA computing Smartphone Conventional PCI CD-i PCMCIA VESA SVGA Extended Industry Standard Architecture sound card VGA Connection Machine Personal digital assistant SCSI Parallel ATA CD ROM Enhanced Graphics Adapter Expanded Memory Advanced Technology Attachment Domain Name System coprocessor Multi-touch RISC MIDI Hayes Smartmodem Color Graphics Adapter Industry Standard Architecture VMEbus compact disk supercomputer laser printer single-board computer TCP/IP touchscreen ethernet Magnavox Odyssey game console microprocessor floppy disk dynamic RAM NPL network ARPANET RS-232 fuzzy logic packet switching computer mouse paging virtual memory interrupts spooling garbage collection (computer science) time-sharing integrated circuit dot matrix printer hard disk magnetic core memory index registers magnetic drum RAM transistor Williams tube trackball teletype Hutter Prize POPLmark challenge DARPA Grand Challenge Google Code Jam TopCoder ICFP Programming Contest CADE ATP System Competition International Olympiad in Informatics Quantum Computer P versus NP problem North American Computer Chess Championship Turing Test Relational database David Levy (chess player) Moore's law

See also

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.
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