Here is our guide to some of the more dominant tech generations in computer history, as embodied by the programmers who gave them life.

A short history of computers Computers have been on something of a miraculous journey since the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or 'Baby' ran its first program in Manchester in 1948.

These home computers had much more powerful processors than the previous generation of consoles; this opened the door to a new level of gaming, with more complex, less linear games.