Computer history
The Computer Hope computer history timeline provides a detailed listing of key events that occurred during the evolution of computers, the Internet, and related technologies. This timeline includes births and deaths of famous computer pioneers, inventions, discoveries, dates when computer companies were established, when popular websites came online, and much more. The timeline helps illustrate how computers have evolved and when computer technologies were introduced.
This page provides links to events in history related to computers. If you're looking for information about Internet browser history and how to clear it, see the links on our history definition.
While we would like to believe our research is 100% accurate, Computer Hope cannot claim 100% accuracy. If you know about something we missed or found something that is incorrect, please contact us and let us know.
Today in computer history
1934 - Ronald Wayne was born.
1939 - Rudolf Bayer was born.
1946 - Sony was founded.
1952 - Geoffrey Dummer a British radar engineer introduces the concept of the integrated circuit at a US tech conference.
1979 - Nathan Emberton was born.
1991 - Bungie was founded.
1996 - Lee Sang-hyeok was born.
1997 - Intel Pentium II was introduced.
2003 - Infogrames adopts the legendary brand name of Atari for its global commercial operations.
2012 - Adobe Photoshop CS6 (13.0) was released.
2016 - Joshua Brown became the first person to die in a self-driving car accident while driving his Tesla Model S.
2019 - Google introduced the Google Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL.
Computer history timeline
The following list is each of the years from B.C. to 2020 of computer-related events that have occurred. Because early years in the timeline did not have many computer-related events, we've combined these years into one page for easier browsing. More recent years only list computer events for each year.
- BC - 1000 AD
- 1000's to 1400's
- 1500's
- 1600's
- 1700's
- 1800's
- 1900 - 1940
- 1900 - 1901 - 1902 - 1903 - 1904 - 1905 - 1906 - 1907 - 1908 - 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1918 - 1919 - 1920 - 1921 - 1922 - 1923 - 1924 - 1925 - 1926 - 1927 - 1928 - 1929 - 1930 - 1931 - 1932 - 1933 - 1934 - 1935 - 1936 - 1937 - 1938 - 1939 - 1940
- 1940 - 1960
- 1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944 - 1945 - 1946 - 1947 - 1948 - 1949 - 1950 - 1951 - 1952 - 1953 - 1954 - 1955 - 1956 - 1957 - 1958 - 1959 - 1960
- 1960 - 1980
- 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 - 1980
- 1980 - 2000
- 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000
- 2000 - 2020
- 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - 2020
- 2020 - Today
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