First modern personal computer, the Xerox Alto, featuring a graphical user interface, mouse, and desktop

Development of ARPANET, predecessor to the internet

Computer scientist John McCarthy proposes the idea of time-sharing, allowing multiple people to use the same central computer – and goes to argue that computation will…

First commercial computer UNIVAC is delivered to the US Census Bureau, weighing 16,000 pounds and capable of 1,000 operations per second