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# History of Computing — Index

## People
- [[alan-turing]] — mathematician and father of theoretical computer science
- [[grace-hopper]] — pioneer of compilers and COBOL; made programming human-readable

## Hardware
- [[von-neumann-architecture]] — the stored-program computer model
- [[transistor-and-microchip]] — from Bell Labs transistor to Intel 4004 and Moore's Law

## Operating Systems and Software
- [[unix-history]] — origins of Unix and C at Bell Labs
- [[open-source-movement]] — GNU, Linux, and the bazaar model

## Languages and Paradigms
- [[programming-languages-overview]] — evolution from assembly to Rust

## Networks and the Web
- [[internet-origins]] — ARPANET to the World Wide Web

## Platforms and AI
- [[personal-computer-revolution]] — Altair, Apple II, IBM PC, and the GUI
- [[artificial-intelligence-history]] — Dartmouth to deep learning and large language models
