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HOW A GROUP OF HACKERS, GENIUSES, AND GEEKS CREATED THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
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CONTENTS
Illustrated Timeline
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Ada, Countess of Lovelace
CHAPTER 2
The Computer
CHAPTER 3
Programming
CHAPTER 4
The Transistor
CHAPTER 5
The Microchip
CHAPTER 6
Video Games
CHAPTER 7
The Internet
CHAPTER 8
The Personal Computer
CHAPTER 9
Software
CHAPTER 10
Online
CHAPTER 11
The Web
CHAPTER 12
Ada Forever
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Photo Credits
Index
1843  
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, publishes “Notes” on Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
1847  
George Boole creates a system using algebra for logical reasoning.
1890  
The census is tabulated with Herman Hollerith’s punch-card machines.
1931  
Vannevar Bush devises the Differential Analyzer, an analog electromechanical computer.
1935  
Tommy Flowers pioneers use of vacuum tubes as on-off switches in circuits.
1937  
Alan Turing publishes “On Computable Numbers,” describing a universal computer.
Claude Shannon describes how circuits of switches can perform tasks of Boolean algebra.
Bell Labs’ George Stibitz proposes a calculator using an electric circuit.
Howard Aiken proposes construction of large digital computer and discovers parts of Babbage’s Difference Engine at Harvard.
John Vincent Atanasoff puts together concepts for an electronic computer during a long December night’s drive.
1938  
William Hewlett and David Packard form company in Palo Alto garage.
1939  
Atanasoff finishes model of electronic computer with mechanical storage drums.
Turing arrives at Bletchley Park to work on breaking German codes.
1941  
Konrad Zuse completes Z3, a fully functional electromechanical programmable digital computer.
John Mauchly visits Atanasoff in Iowa, sees computer demonstrated.
1942  
Atanasoff completes partly working computer with three hundred vacuum tubes, leaves for Navy.
1943  
Colossus, a vacuum-tube computer to break German codes, is completed at Bletchley Park.
1944  
Harvard Mark I goes into operation.
John von Neumann goes to Penn to work on ENIAC.
1945  
Von Neumann writes “First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC” describing a stored-program computer.
Six women programmers of ENIAC are sent to Aberdeen for training.
Vannevar Bush publishes “As W ............

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