In this article, I will place what I believe are relevant videos about computer history and comment on them. Since the 70s, we have been watching the exponential growth of transistor counts — famously known as Moore’s Law — in which the number of transistors on a chip roughly doubled every two years. Each decade brought an exponential leap in processing power, enabling smaller, faster, and more affordable machines. What once required an entire room now fits in the palm of our hands — and this evolution is beautifully captured in the videos I’ve selected.
As you go through them, you’ll see how each technological milestone not only pushed hardware capabilities forward but also shaped the way we work, communicate, and create. From the earliest microprocessors to modern integrated systems, this timeline reveals how rapidly innovation has transformed our world.
Below, observe the "Moore’s Law" chart, where the number of transistors roughly doubles every two years. We also present two additional charts representing different CPU architectures, each shown in distinct colors, allowing a comparison between clock speed and the SPEC performance index on both axes. The first chart displays early PC and workstation processors up to 1 GHz on a logarithmic scale. In the second, linear chart, we can see that these older processors represent only a small fraction of the processing power of modern ones, and that higher clock speeds do not always outperform a greater number of cores and more advanced architectures.