This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing: from prehistory until 1949. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see History of computing.

Prehistory

Before modernity

Ancient historyAntiquity

Post-classical historyMedieval

Early modernity

Invention of the mechanical computer

1822-1851

1851–1930

1931–1940

Invention of the programmable computer

1941–1949

Gallery

Computing timeline

Timeline of computing

• 1950–1979

• 1980–1989

• 1990–1999

• 2000–2009

• 2010–2019

• 2020–present

• History of computing hardware

References

Sources

External links

• , article from Virtual Travelog

• Timeline: exponential speedup since first automatic calculator in 1623 by Jürgen Schmidhuber, from "The New AI: General & Sound & Relevant for Physics, In B. Goertzel and C. Pennachin, eds.: Artificial General Intelligence, pp. 175–198, 2006."

• a photographic gallery on computing history

• Computer History by Computer Hope

• Timeline of Computer History by Computer History Museum