I would love to have something like this on my wall that has seen a designer’s touch. The information tells a story, but it could certainly be art.The end of the graph has a lot of straight lines. I’m not sure this is accurate as much as it’s just missing linkages. Or perhaps they just haven’t become sufficiently clear through the lens of history.

I also highly recommend the 99 bottles of beer gallery, which has the same program written in many different languages including some very old ones:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.99-bottles-of-beer.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.99-bottles-of-beer.net&#x2F;</a>

If the OP wanted a larger dataset, here&#x27;s a list of 5,016: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pldb.io&#x2F;lists&#x2F;explorer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pldb.io&#x2F;lists&#x2F;explorer.html</a>Also available as csv&#x2F;tsv&#x2F;json: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pldb.io&#x2F;pldb.csv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pldb.io&#x2F;pldb.csv</a>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;breck7&#x2F;pldb">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;breck7&#x2F;pldb</a>

I&#x27;ve put 2022 as date, because it&#x27;s the last time the pdf was updated.

Because it was posted to HN in 2008, I think it is older than 2022.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=130823">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=130823</a>

levenez unix history page &#x2F; chart is also interesting.

That must be 0.00001% of all people who want a computer language timeline.

Because PDF is a decent format for archiving paginated output formats, and a clear intention of this project is to let people print out the entire timeline and stick it up on the wall somewhere?

Computer Languages Timeline [pdf] (2022)