History of Computing

COMPLETE TIMELINE Explore over 30 founding milestones across 6 major eras: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (abacus, Antikythera mechanism, al-Khwarizmi), mechanical machines (Pascaline, Leibniz, Jacquard, Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Boole, Hollerith), the theoretical foundations of the 1930s (Turing, Shannon, Atanasoff), the vacuum tube era (Colossus, ENIAC, von Neumann, Grace Hopper), the transistor and IBM's rise (Bell Labs, UNIVAC, FORTRAN, integrated circuit, COBOL), and finally minicomputers and software foundations (ARPANET, Unix, C language, Intel 4004).

MACHINE GALLERY 12 landmark machines with Wikipedia photos, date, inventor and detailed profile: Antikythera mechanism, Pascaline, Jacquard loom, Babbage's Analytical Engine, Hollerith tabulator, Colossus, ENIAC, UNIVAC I, Bell Labs transistor, integrated circuit, IBM System/360, Intel 4004.

INTERACTIVE QUIZ 15 randomly shuffled questions to test your knowledge of computing pioneers. Real-time score, answer feedback, unlimited restarts.

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