Year Event 1843 Ada Lovelace is credited as being the first person to describe or write a computer program. In 1843, she described an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers using the Analytical Engine . 1889 The Hollerith tabulating machine was invented by Herman Hollerith in 1889, allowing for data to be programmatically counted and tabulated. 1956 One of the first programming languages , FORTRAN , was introduced to the public on October 15, 1956. It was developed by John Backus and others at IBM . 1958 The second-oldest programming language, LISP was developed by John McCarthy and was first used in 1958. 1959 COBOL started being developed in 1959 by Grace Hopper and Bob Bemer . 1964 The original BASIC programming language was developed by John Kemeny , Mary Keller , and Thomas Kurtz , and was introduced to the public on May 1, 1964. 196...
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History Of Coding Computer history timeline The following list is each of the years from B.C. to 2020 of computer-related events that have occurred. Because early years in the timeline did not have many computer-related events, we've combined these years into one page for easier browsing. More recent years only list computer events for each year.
