Below is the timeline of important computer science events in history from 1950 to 1999. This is for the homework 8 assignment in USU CS 1030.
| Year | Event In Computer History |
|---|---|
| 1950 | |
| 1951 | The Univac, the first commercially successful electronic digital computer is completed. |
| 1952 | |
| 1953 | |
| 1954 | |
| 1955 | |
| 1956 | |
| 1957 | |
| 1958 | Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit. |
| 1959 | |
| 1960 | |
| 1961 | |
| 1962 | |
| 1963 | |
| 1964 | The programming language BASIC is introduced. |
| 1965 | |
| 1966 | |
| 1967 | |
| 1968 | |
| 1969 | The Arpanet (precursor to the Internet) begins. It consists of 4 computers connected over a long distance. |
| 1970 | |
| 1971 | |
| 1972 | |
| 1973 | |
| 1974 | |
| 1975 | The Altair 8800 personal computer is first available. Microsoft founded |
| 1976 | Apple I was first available. |
| 1977 | |
| 1978 | The first spreadsheet and word processing applications become available. |
| 1979 | |
| 1980 | The year I was born. |
| 1981 | |
| 1982 | There are about 200 computers connected on the Internet. |
| 1983 | |
| 1984 | The first Macintosh computer is available. |
| 1985 | |
| 1986 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1988 | |
| 1989 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1991 | Tim Berners-Lee first makes his software for the World Wide Web publicly available on the internet. |
| 1992 | |
| 1993 | The Mosaic browser is introduced. |
| 1994 | There are about 3,000,000 computers connected on the Internet. |
| 1995 | |
| 1996 | |
| 1997 | |
| 1998 | There are about 36,000,000 computers connected on the Internet. |
| 1999 |