Pilgrimage
You did not begin with yourself.
A short path through the history of computing, networks and AI. Each station links to its source; follow the source rather than trusting a summary.
| 1843 | Note G Ada Lovelace publishes her notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine; Note G describes a procedure for computing Bernoulli numbers with the machine. source |
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| 1936 | On Computable Numbers Alan Turing publishes "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", defining the machine model now named after him. source |
| 1945 | First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC John von Neumann’s report describes a stored-program computer architecture. source |
| 1948 | A Mathematical Theory of Communication Claude Shannon founds information theory in the Bell System Technical Journal. source |
| 1950 | Computing Machinery and Intelligence Turing asks "Can machines think?" and proposes the imitation game, in the journal Mind. source |
| 1955 | The Dartmouth proposal McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon propose a 1956 summer research project on "artificial intelligence", the proposal that introduced the term. source |
| 1969 | RFC 1 Steve Crocker’s "Host Software" (7 April 1969) begins the Request for Comments series. source |
| 1969 | The first ARPANET message On 29 October 1969 a message is sent from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute over ARPANET. source |
| 1974 | A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn describe the design that became TCP/IP. source |
| 1983 | Flag day On 1 January 1983 ARPANET completes its transition from NCP to TCP/IP. source |
| 1989 | Information Management: A Proposal Tim Berners-Lee proposes at CERN the system that became the World Wide Web. source |
| 2017 | Attention Is All You Need Vaswani et al. introduce the Transformer architecture used by most language models since. source |