History of Computing template
Eighty years from Turing's paper on computable numbers to the smartphone, in ten well-documented milestones.
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What's in it
| Event | When | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Turing's "On Computable Numbers" | 1936 | Ideas |
| ENIAC dedicated | 15 Feb 1946 | Hardware |
| First transistor at Bell Labs | 23 Dec 1947 | Hardware |
| Integrated circuit demonstrated | Sep 1958 | Hardware |
| First ARPANET message | 29 Oct 1969 | Networks & products |
| Intel 4004 microprocessor announced | 15 Nov 1971 | Hardware |
| IBM Personal Computer | 12 Aug 1981 | Networks & products |
| Web proposal by Tim Berners-Lee | Mar 1989 | Ideas |
| iPhone announced | 9 Jan 2007 | Networks & products |
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