Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions. The most prescient prophet might receive an iPad 2 in 2050. But if the past is any guide, this prediction will almost surely be wrong.
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1938
A Programmable Computer
Konrad Zuse designs and builds the Z1, the first programmable computer.
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1971
1981
Computer Viruses
Elk cloner, arguably the first computer virus, is created by a 15-year-old high school student. It infected Apple II computers through their floppy disks.
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Google Indexes a Gigapage
Google announces that it has indexed more than a billion pages.
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2010
Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
China's Supercomputer
The world takes notice of Chinese technological prowess when a Chinese supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, briefly becomes the world’s fastest.
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