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#	Dated	Description
001	20,000 BCE	Tally ho! – the tale of tally sticks and the burning down of the House of Commons
002	4,000 BCE	Go figure!
003	1623	A plague on your devices
004	1801	Weaving by punched card
005	1822	Vive la différence
006	1879	Buttons and bells
007	1884	Counting heads
008	1909, 1927	Target practice
009	1936	Ciphers and fish
010	1937	Running circuits
011	1938	Sincerest form of flattery
012	1938	By Zuse!
013	1939	Simple as ABC
014	1944	Automatic Séance Controlled Computer
015	1945	As we may think
016	1946	Universal automatic computing
017	1956	Disk jockeys
018	1957	Light the blue touch paper
019	1960	Time sharing
020	1960	Minicomputing
021	1960	Supercomputing
022	1962	Playing with computers
023	1963	Drawing on computers
024	1963	Hyper-thought
025	1964	BASIC building blocks
026	1964	Pass the parcel
027	1965	Semiconductors
028	1966	The enabler
029	1968	Mother of all demos
030	1969	Laser printing
031	1969	UNIX operating system
032	1970	Object-oriented programming
033	1971	The microprocessor
034	1971	Electronic books
035	1971	You have mail
036	1972	Singing Alto
037	1972	Through the ether
038	1972	French evolutions
039	1972	Video games
040	1973	Early PC contenders
041	1974	Birth of the Internet
042	1974	First successful PC kit
043	1974	Advances in PC software
044	1975	Software for early PCs
045	1975	Low-cost MPUs
046	1975	Operating system for MPUs
047	1975	Text processing
048	1976	Taiwanese manufacturing
049	1976	Steve Wozniak and Apple 1
050	1977	Jack Tramiel and Commodore
051	1977	Getting connected
052	1977	Digital typesetting
053	1977	Consulting the oracle
054	1977	Retailing computers
055	1978	British kits and PCs
056	1978	Databases for PCs
057	1978	Spreadsheets for PCs
058	1979	Videotext
059	1980	Clive Sinclair
060	1981	70-stone gorilla comes to play
061	1981	Up, down and strange
062	1981	Software patents
063	1981	Graphics workstations
064	1982	Clones and clamshells
065	1982	3M computing
066	1982	An OS for the IBM-PC
067	1982	A postscript coming first?
068	1983	Simple as 1-2-3
069	1983	Alternate thinking
070	1984	Design-led PCs
071	1984	PC direct selling
072	1984	Personal digital assistance
073	1984	Accounting with PCs
074	1985	Desktop publishing
075	1985	Low cost UK PCs
076	1987	Fighting viruses
077	1988	Take a picture
078	1989	Clever GUIs
079	1991	Worldwide ambitions
080	1991	Tux the penguin
081	1993	Browser wars
082	1994	Search engines
083	1994	New player
084	1994	Keep your hat on
085	1995	Auctions online
086	1995	Electronic book selling
087	1996	Improving search
088	1997	Styling PCs
089	1999	File sharing
090	2000	Paying on the Net
091	2001	The Net’s encyclopaedia
092	2001	Birth of VoIP
093	2002	Virtual friends
094	2003	Business connections
095	2004	Social networking
096	2004	China joins the top table
097	2005	Picture that
098	2005	Third world PCs
099	2006	All of a twitter
100	2010	Artificial Intelligemce