Long term history of intelligent machines

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Notice that the list below is both transdisciplinary - involving work in several disciplines, not just art. Also the list is culturally diverse.

2010		Web 3.0 suggested

1989		Tim Berners-Lee: www, html, http

1968		Douglas Engelbart: the computer mouse

1951		Lincoln Laboratory: The Whirlwind

1941		Conrad Zuse: Z3

1940		Alan Turing, Bombe machine cracks German Enigma code

1820		Charles Babbage, Difference Engine, Analytical Machine

1801		Jacques de Vaucanson, punch cards, mechanical duck

1780		Benjamin Franklin, electricity

1642		Blaise Pascal, first calculating machine

1206		Al-Jazari, algorithms, water powered clock

725		Yi Xing, Mechanical escapement

200 		China, Saun-pan computing tray

c2000BCE	       Egypt, levered servants of the dead

c2600BCE	Abacus in China and Sumeria (Babylonia)