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10 significant milestones in the history of computers

By Russel Ryan
  • Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

    Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

    Considered the first concept of a general-purpose computer. Babbage's design laid the groundwork for future computing.
  • Alan Turing’s Turing Machine Concept

    Alan Turing’s Turing Machine Concept

    Alan Turing published his paper on the concept of the Turing Machine.
  • ENIAC, the First General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computer

    ENIAC, the First General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computer

    ENIAC was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Invention of the Transistor

    Invention of the Transistor

    John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain invented the transistor at Bell Labs.
  • UNIVAC I

    UNIVAC I

    UNIVAC I was delivered to the United States Census Bureau, becoming the first commercial computer in the U.S.
  • Development of Integrated Circuits

    Development of Integrated Circuits

    Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit at Texas Instruments.
  • Introduction of ARPANET

    Introduction of ARPANET

    ARPANET went live, connecting four university computers in the United States.
  • Apple II

    Apple II

    Apple launched the Apple II at the West Coast Computer Faire.
  • IBM PC

    IBM PC

    IBM introduced its first personal computer, the IBM PC model 5150.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee released the first publicly available version of the World Wide Web.