Chronological inventory
Innovations
Technical milestones ordered by year, from mechanical to digital.
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Mechanical Origins
Electronic Era
Personal Computing
Birth of the Internet
Web Era
Web 2.0 & Social Media
Mobile & Cloud
Generative AI
U.S. Army Photo — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1945
ENIAC
Hardware / Electronic computer
Windell Oskay — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1947
Transistor
Hardware / Electronic component
Jargon File — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1969
UNIX
Software / Operating system
Rezonansowy — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1972
C
Software / Programming language
SqlPac, modified by Ferdna — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1974
SQL
Software / Query language
David Göthberg — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1977
RSA
Cryptography / Security