Timeline

Industrial era

1947 - 2005...

IBM 360 system

Commodore 64

Industrial era starts at 1947
This era the computer revolution will go in full gear.
Computers will be produced by the millions each year and becoming smaller then a human finger nail.

1947	1949	1950	1952	1955	1958	1961	1963	1965	1969	1970	1972	1974
1976	1978	1980	1981	1982	1984	1986	1989	1991	1993	1994	1996	2000
2002	2005	2007

Pre Industrial era

1886 - 1946

Difference engine Babbage

pascaline

Pre Industrial era starts at 1886
In this era the first computing machines are constructed, the first fully functional mechanical calculators are put on the market.
The concept of computers is born but are fully mechanical

1886 1900 1927 1938 1940 1944

Antiquity

Schickard calculator

Antiquity starts at 1620 AD
The first aids to calculate are being constructed, no intricate machinery that resembles a computer. But logarithm and binary logic is developed

1620 1672 1773 1830 1846

Pre Historic Era

Clay tablet engraved with with cuneiform

Pre Historic Era starts at 300.000 BC
The prehistory in computing is characterized by simple methods of numbering, the invention of numerical systems and the birth of mathematics and calculus.
It will take hundreds of years before the concept of the 0 is introduced in the entire world

300BC 469 1310

History of Computing by Country