History Of Technology
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1608
Telescope
1698
Steam Engine
1800s
Electricity
DC Motor
Combustion Engine
The Origin of Species
Lightbulb
Telephone
Car
AC Motor
Radio
1900s
First Flight
Television
Edwin Hubble finds Expansion of the Universe
Einstein formulates the equivalence of matter and energy, relativity of time and space
Digital Computer ENIAC
Atomic Bomb
Transistor
Polio Vaccine (1948-1955)
COBOL, Fortran
DNA Double Helix (1953)
Integrated Circuit (1958)
1960s
Prototype of the modern computer with a mouse and graphical user interface (1964)
The Birth of the Internet (1965-1995)
Apollo 1 (1967)
Intel (1968)
UNIX (1969)
Apollo 11 (1969)
1970s
Floppy Disk (1971)
C Programming Language (1972)
Apollo 17 (1972)
Ethernet (1973)
First Cell Phone (1973)
First Personal Computers (1974-1977)
ALTAIR 8800, Microsoft (1975)
Apple (1976)
VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program (1978)
WordStar, word processing (1979)
1980s
IBM PC
Commodore 64 (1982)
Macintosh (1984)
CRISPR (1987)
C++ (1985)
The first domain (symbolics.com)
1990s
Hubble (1990)
IMDb, Python, Haskell (1990)
Dolly Cloned (1993)
Pentium Processor, Mosaic Browser (1993)
Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Amazon, PHP (1994)
Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PostgreSQL (1996)
Google (1998)
International Space Station Launched (1998)
Wi-Fi (1999)
2000s
Wikipedia (2001)
SpaceX (2002)
Safari, Tesla (2003)
Gmail, Facebook (2004)
Arduino, Reddit, YouTube (2005)
Twitter, MacBook Pro (2006)
iPhone, Kindle (2007)
MacBook Air (2008)
GitHub, WhatsApp (2009)
2010s
Instagram (2010)
Snapchat (2011)
Tesla Model S (2012)
Apple Watch (2015)
CRISPR in Human Trials (2016)
2020s
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines (2020)
James Webb Space Telescope (2021)
misc.
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/