# Any timeline for the amount of computing power extant on earth?

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From time to time you see statements of the form, “Device X is more powerful than all the computing power that existed on Earth before the year N.”

Is there a readily available timeline of this sort listing how much computing power existed on Earth in given years, say from 1950 to the present?