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Timelines

Ways to follow the archive from start to end — the whole history at once, or one topic at a time.

  • 160 events · 1822–2026

    IT History: A Timeline of Innovation

    Every event, person, and turning point in the archive, laid out in one continuous span — from the first mechanical calculators to today.

  • 81 events · 1991–2026

    Linux: A Timeline of Freedom

    Linux began as one student’s side project and grew into the foundation of the modern Internet. Follow its story from Linus Torvalds’ first announcement in 1991 through GNU, the kernel releases, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu and Android to containers, cloud computing and today’s infrastructure — a timeline of the people, ideas and communities that built Linux.

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