BBC launch timeline on the history of computer code
The BBC recently published a timeline "How the world came to be run by computer code" on iWonder - an interactive guide designed to unlock the learning potential of BBC content.
The coding timeline begins as far back as 1679 with binary code, and looks at pioneers such as Babbage and Lovelace, and the University's own Alan Turing who cracked the Engima code and went on to design the Universal Turing machine in 1936.
The timeline stops off in Manchester in 1948 with the Manchester "Baby" and the Ferranti Mark 1 in 1951, before going on to look at other important developments in the world of coding including the birth of computer gaming, the microprocessor and the Human Genome Project. The world wide web, Google, and Facebook also feature, as do mobile apps, first developed as far back as 2008.
To find out more about the history of computer code, visit the BBC's iWonder feature "How the world came to be run by computer code".
To find out about the history of computing at Manchester, visit the School of Computer Science's history timeline.
Cassandra Barlow