Ask HN: Is there a public timeline of important events in software?

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OSS, domain-specific, theory, whatever..

The Most Important Software Innovations 1837 - 2004 (scroll down to table in section 4):

Wikipedia has many "History of X" pages. Plug in X = Software Engineering and you get a general overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_software_engineering

Pretty good, but light on the last 15 years or so