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

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.
  • Visual History of Computing 1944-2013 (archived)