book: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson (!)

A fascinating story about people and history of creating of computers and the internet.
I have slightly extended a list of links from (and to) Wikipedia.
A list is a not an optimal format for this, a visual graph would be better.
This story is still unfolding, with Mobile, IoT, biotech and many other areas of science and technology improving exponentially by efforts of innovators.

The Innovators | Book by Walter Isaacson | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster:


The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution: Walter Isaacson: 9781476708690: Amazon.com: Books

Book Review: ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson - WSJ

The Innovators : NPR

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Some of the innovators covered in the book include:"

• Charles Babbage
  (1837) designed the Analytical Engine 
• Ada Lovelace
  (1843) ideas, early computer programming, "Notes" on Babbage's Analytical Engine
• George Boole mathematician,
  (1847) algebra for logical reasoning
• Herman Hollerith
  (1890) punch-card machine for census, founded company that become IBM
• Vannevar Bush
  (1931) ideas, analog electro-mechanical computer
• Alan Turing
  (1937) described universal computer
• Claude Shannon
  (1937) using switches for boolean algebra (MIT), foundation of digital computers 
• John Vincent Atanasoff
  (1939) model of electronic computer, with electro-mechanical drum
• Harvard Mark I
  (1944) general-purpose electro-mechanical computer (IBM)
• John von Neumann
  (1945) described EDVAC, stored-program computer 
• ENIAC
  (1945) first electronic general-purpose [ Computer ] (Penn)
  designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
• Grace Hopper
  (1952) programming Mark 1, first compiler for programs
• (1947) [ Transistor ] invented in Bell labs
• William Shockley : transistor, Nobel prize, "brought silicon to Silicon Valley"
• John Bardeen : 2 Nobel prizes, transistor, superconductivity
• Walter Houser Brattain: Nobel prize, transistor
• (1971) [ Microprocessor ]
• Robert Noyce  co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor (1957), Intel (1968), microprocessor
• Gordon Moore: Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel  
• Andrew Grove: Intel
• Jack Kilby, co-inventor of microprocessor, Nobel Prize, inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer: Texas Instruments
• Marcian Hoff co-inventor of microprocessor
• [ Internet ]
• J.C.R. Licklider ideas: one of the first to foresee modern-style
  graphical user interface, interactive computing, ARPANET, Internet
• (1945) Vannevar Bush ideas "As We May Think" (Memex) 
• (1969) ARPANET
• (1973) TCP/IP : Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf
• [ Ideas ] 
• Stewart Brand
  (1968) Whole Earth Catalog
• Doug Engelbart human-computer interface, mouse, GUI
  (1968) The Mother of All Demos
• Alan Kay ideas: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
  (1972) Dynabook: “A Personal Computer For Children Of All Ages” 
  object-oriented programming, windowing graphical user interface, Smalltalk, Squeak;  Model–view–controller; (Xerox PARC)
• (1970s) [ Minicomputer ] 
• PDP-11 :  DEC
• (1970s) [ Gaming Computers ] 
• (1972) Atari
• [ Personal Computer ]
• (1975) Microsoft
• Bill Gates
• Paul Allen
• (1976) Apple Computers
• Steve Jobs
• Steve Wozniak
• [ Free and Open Source Software ]
• (1983) GNU : Richard Stallman
• (1991) Linux : Linus Torvalds
• (1980s) [ Modem ]
• BBS
• AOL
• [ World Wide Web ]
• (1991) Tim Berners-Lee created
• (1995) Netscape
• Marc Andreessen
• James H. Clark
• [ Wiki ]
• (1995) Ward Cunningham created
• (1999) Blogger by Evan Williams
• (2001) Wikipedia
• Jimmy Wales
• [ Search Engines ] 
• (1998) Google
• Larry Page
• Sergey Brin
• [ Artificial Intelligence ]
• (1955) John McCarthy
• (1997) Deep Blue (chess computer)
• (2011) Watson (computer)
• Intelligent personal assistants