Skewed growth, a number of firsts, tragic exits, landmark deals and pioneering personalities, Indian IT has been defined by this and much more. Here is a compilation of 25 such moments that shaped Indian IT into what it is today.

1956
The Computer Arrives
The first digital computer comes to India estd. 1956, as the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata installs a Hollerith Electronic Computer, HEC-2M, brought from England. Initially, it handled a number of scientific problems from all across the country, including trajectory analysis for artillery cannons for the Defense. It was, in fact, the first computer brought to Asia, outside of Japan.

HP today announced a major milestone in world class supercomputing working collaboratively with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, India’s largest conglomerate. This flagship win has resulted in CRL building the 4th most powerful supercomputer in the world which is also the most powerful in Asia and Asia-Pacific.

Just imagine what scientists and engineers could do if they had the ability to perform 120 trillion floating point operations per second. This is now a viable reality at India's Computational Research Laboratories, thanks to new HP High-end compute building blocks used by CRL to build their supercomputer this month.