The Electronic Age

1945 - 1974

Following WWII, computing moved into the electronic realm with ENIAC and the birth of the first batch processing systems for IBM mainframes.

Milestones

1945
Plankalkül: The First Language

Konrad Zuse creates the first high-level programming language.

1948
The Manchester Baby

The world's first stored-program computer.

1948
The Birth of the "Bit"

Claude Shannon publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".

Legendary Hardware

ENIAC
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ENIAC
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IBM 704
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IBM 704
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IBM System/360
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IBM System/360
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Interface Evolution

GM-NAA I/O
1956