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An interactive history of computing

Era / 011940s–1950s

Machine

Computation becomes physical.

Early electronic computers filled entire rooms and switched with vacuum tubes.

Era / 021960s–1970s

Chip

Miniaturization.

Circuits that once filled cabinets were integrated onto a single chip.

Era / 03Ready
1970s–1980s

Personal

Computing becomes personal.

Era / 041990s

Web

Computers become connected.

Hypertext linked information across different computers into one shared web.

Era / 052000s

Always
On

Connection becomes persistent.

Going online stopped being an event. The link stayed open.

Era / 062010s

Everywhere

Computing stopped being somewhere. It became everywhere.

Era / 072020s
  • Language
  • Vision
  • Code
  • Sound

Intelligence

Software starts to work with language, images, code and sound as patterns it can relate and recombine.

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