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
Jargon File — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1969
UNIX
Software / Operating system
Thomas Nguyen (Fouky) — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1971
Intel 4004
Hardware / Microprocessor
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
Hellis (it.wikipedia) — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1977
Apple II
Hardware / Microcomputer
Boffy b — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1981
IBM PC
Hardware / Microcomputer
Grm wnr — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1984
Macintosh
Hardware / Microcomputer