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History of computers | A timeline

The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.
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C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages" -- c. 1470: Cipher disk -- 1613: ...
In the early 1980s, John Warnock and Charles Geschke presented a programming language they'd created called Interpress to ...
Firms have to balance hi-tech and age-old skills when training up young workers.