computer history timline

By Tracy Mcswain

  • Plankalkul

    designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse, between 1943 and 1945.

  • Fortran

    developed by IBM, in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications,

  • MATH-MATIC

    Created by a group led by Charles Katz, in 1957.

  • Lisp

    Originally specified in 1958, Designed John McCarthy.

  • COBOL

    primarily designed by Grace Hopper, is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, 1959

  • RPG

    developed by IBM, in 1959, stands for Report Program Generator.

  • BASIC

    an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, 1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language.

  • LOGO

    designed in 1967, by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.

  • PASCAL

    designed in 1968–1969 and published in 1970, by Niklaus Wirth

  • B

    first appeared circa 1969, mostly the work of Ken Thompson.

  • C

    developed by Dennis Ritchie, between 1969 and 1973.

  • ML

    developed by Robin Milner, early 1970s, ML stands for metalanguage.

  • SQL

    Designed by Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond F. Boyce, Appeared in 1974, Stands for Structured Query Language.

  • ADA

    from 1977 to 1983, designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull, Ada was named after Ada Lovelace who is credited as being the first computer programmer.

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, in 1979, was originally named C with Classes.

  • Java

    developed by Sun, 1991 and first released in 1995.

  • Python

    Designed by Guido van Rossum, Appeared in 1991.

  • Visual Basic

    first released in 1991, Developer Microsoft.

  • Delphi

    developed by Borland, released in February 1995,

  • Javascript

    1995, Designed by Brendan Eich

  • PHP

    Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf, in 1995, PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page,it now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor