The Electronic Age
1945 - 1974
Following WWII, computing moved into the electronic realm with ENIAC and the birth of the first batch processing systems for IBM mainframes.
Milestones
1945
Plankalkül: The First Language
Konrad Zuse creates the first high-level programming language.
1948
The Manchester Baby
The world's first stored-program computer.
1948
The Birth of the "Bit"
Claude Shannon publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".