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Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by year and grouped into six topic areas: predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processors, operating systems, programming languages, and new application areas.
The Great Rift Valley of Africa provides critical evidence for the evolution of early hominins.The earliest tools in the world can be found there as well: An unidentified hominin, possibly Australopithecus afarensis or Kenyanthropus platyops, created stone tools dating to 3.3 million years ago at Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin, eastern Africa.
Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS) becomes the first to advocate free software culture in South Africa. Many hackers gain their first experience of online world via Douglas Reeler's modem. Also in 1991, Kagenna Magazine publishes an article on Cyberpunk by Dr Tim Leary, the first time the word is mentioned in print in South Africa.
J. Lyons, a United Kingdom food company, famous for its tea, made history by running the first business application on an electronic computer. A payroll system was run on Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) a computer system designed by Maurice Wilkes who had previously worked on EDSAC .
Timeline of computing hardware before 1950; Timeline of computing 1950–1979; Timeline of computing 1980–1989; Timeline of computing 1990–1999; Timeline of computing 2000–2009; Timeline of computing 2010–2019; Timeline of computing 2020–present
South Africa's competition agency did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The U.S. software giant faces a EU complaint by rivals over its cloud computing licensing practices ...
This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 2020 to the present. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see the history of computing. Significant events in computing include events relating directly or indirectly to software, hardware and wetware. Excluded (except in instances of significant ...
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