Information about Timeline Of Computing
| History of computing |
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| Hardware before 1960 |
| Hardware 1960s to present |
| Hardware in Soviet Bloc countries |
| Operating systems |
| Software engineering |
| Programming languages |
| Artificial intelligence |
| Graphical user interface |
| Internet |
| World Wide Web |
| Computer and video games |
Timeline of computing
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This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of computing.
Computing timelines: 2400 BC-1949, 1950-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-present
Resources
- Stephen White: A Brief History of Computing, http://ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history.html. An excellent Computer history site; the above is a modified version of his timeline, used with permission.
- The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project tries to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems, http://comp-hist.sourceforge.net/
See also
- History of computing hardware – up to third generation (1960s)
- History of computing hardware (1960s-present) – third generation and later
- Programming language timeline
- Operating systems timeline
- Commercial computer apps timeline
- Computer science timeline
- Timeline of artificial intelligence
- History of the graphical user interface
- History of the Internet
Graphical timeline
history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables.
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Computing hardware has been an important component of the process of calculation and computer data storage since it became useful for numerical values to be processed and shared.
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history of computing hardware in former Soviet Bloc is somewhat different from that of Western countries. Since Communist party propaganda maintained that western construction was next to useless, and the West had strict export restrictions on this technology, everything had to be
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history of computer operating systems recapitulates to a degree, the recent history of computing.
Operating systems (OS) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application-programs on a computer, and the necessary linkages for the control and sychronization of
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Operating systems (OS) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application-programs on a computer, and the necessary linkages for the control and sychronization of
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Cost and Budget Overruns: The OS/360 operating system was a classic example. This decade-long project from the 1960s and 1970s eventually produced one of the most complex software systems ever created. OS/360 was one of the first large (1000 programmer) software projects.
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programming languages. For a detailed timeline of events, see the timeline of programming languages.
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Prehistory
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Limited computer power: There was not enough memory or processing speed to accomplish anything truly useful. For example, Ross Quillian's successful work on natural language was demonstrated with a vocabulary of only twenty
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The graphical user interface, or "GUI" (IPA: /ˈɡuːiː/), is a computer interface that uses graphic icons and controls in addition to text.
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first multiprotocol wide area network called the NASA Science Internet, or NSI. NSI was established to provide a total integrated communications infrastructure to the NASA scientific community for the advancement of earth, space and life sciences.
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World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the
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Video games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the basis for an important entertainment industry in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the United States, Japan, and Europe.
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Chronology is the science of locating events in time. An arrangement of events, from either earliest to latest or the reverse, is also called a chronology or, particularly when involving graphical elements, a timeline or a living graph. See also Chronicle.
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computing is synonymous with counting and calculating. Originally, people that performed these functions were known as computers. Today it refers to a science and technology that deals with the computation and the manipulation of symbols.
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history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables.
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An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. An operating system processes system data and user input, and responds by allocating and managing tasks and internal system resources as a service to users and programs of the
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Computing hardware has been an important component of the process of calculation and computer data storage since it became useful for numerical values to be processed and shared.
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This is a timeline, i.e. a chronology, of historically important programming languages. Other lists of programming languages are:
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- Alphabetical
- Categorical
- Chronological
- Generational
Legend
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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1960 to 2007. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems.
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See also: History of artificial intelligence
Date Development
Antiquity Greek myths of Hephaestus and Pygmalion incorporate the idea of intelligent robots.
384-322 BCE Aristotle invented syllogistic logic, the first formal deductive reasoning system.
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To 1900
Date Development
Antiquity Greek myths of Hephaestus and Pygmalion incorporate the idea of intelligent robots.
384-322 BCE Aristotle invented syllogistic logic, the first formal deductive reasoning system.
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The graphical user interface, or "GUI" (IPA: /ˈɡuːiː/), is a computer interface that uses graphic icons and controls in addition to text.
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first multiprotocol wide area network called the NASA Science Internet, or NSI. NSI was established to provide a total integrated communications infrastructure to the NASA scientific community for the advancement of earth, space and life sciences.
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