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)