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Architecture

Computing

Bell Labs

Databases

API

Programming Languages

Linux

Containers

Platform & Tools @ Yahoo!

Timeline

2022

2021

2019-2020

2018

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90s

  • 1990: The world wide web was released out of CERN, thank you Tim Berners-Lee! Originally it only ran on NeXT computers!
  • 1991: Apple's PowerBook laptops, with built-in trackball, are released.
  • 1993: Windows NT is released.
  • 1994: Zip drives are released from Iomega, allowing 100MB to be stored on a single Zip Disk.
  • 1995 and later: The big browser war between Netscape and Microsoft.
  • 1997: The CD-RW is introduced.
  • 1998: The colorful iMacs are launched.

80s

  • 1980: The Sinclair ZX80 was introduced in the UK as a small home computer. It originally sold for only £79 as a kit or £99 pre-assembled.
  • 1981: Sony introduced the first 3 ½-inch floppy drives and diskettes. IBM introduced their personal computer, the IBM Model 5150, which went hand in hand with an MS-DOS release. The Osborne 1 was introduced, weighing 24 pounds and at a price of $1,795.
  • 1982: TIME magazine publishes "Machine of the Year" versus the usual "Man of the Year". Sun Microsystems was founded, the namesake from SUN was Stanford University Network. Commodore introduced the Commodore 64 which sold for $595 and came with 64 KB of RAM.
  • 1983: Apple introduced the Lisa, which was the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface. Microsoft introduced Word.
  • 1984: Apple launches the Macintosh with the infamous 1984 ad. Flash memory is invented by Fujio Masuoka. Matlab is released. Verilog, the hardware description language is created by Phil Moorby and Prabhu Goel.
  • 1985: C++, the programming language, is published. Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
  • 1986: The SCSI-1 standard, the interface for connecting external devices such as hard drives to computers, is adopted.
  • 1987: IBM introduced their Personal System/2 (PS/2) machines, which included Intel's 80386 chip. Larry Wall wrote Perl.
  • 1988: The NeXT cube is announced by Steve Jobs. The base model sold for $6,500. Stephen Wolfram created Mathematica.
  • 1989: Nintendo released the Game Boy handheld gaming console.

70s

  • 1970: Amdahl, started by Gene Amdahl who created the IBM System/360, introduced the Amdahl 470. The Pascal programming language is created by Professor Niklaus Wirth.
  • 1971: The ILLIAC IV supercomputer is delivered to NASA. It used Fairchild's Processor Element Memory (PEM) which stored 16,834 bytes in each of it's 64 processors. Xerox PARC invented the laser printer.
  • 1972: The C programming language is released.
  • 1974: The Xerox PARC Alto is introduced, which featured the first WYSIWYG editor. The Alto is what inspired Apple's Lisa and Macintosh.
  • 1975: Altair 8800 kit appeared in Popular Electronics. Tandem computers released the Tandem-16.
  • 1976: The Cray-1 supercomputer is introduced. This machine featured a novel design with seating on the outside of the computer. Steve Wozniak completed the Apple-1.
  • 1977: Apple II is introduced. Atari launched the Video Computer System game console.
  • 1978: Digital Equipment Corporation introduced the VAX line of computers. The success of the VAX systems made DEC into the second largest computer company in the world.
  • 1979: Atari introduced their Model 400 and 800 computers.

60s

  • 1960: COBOL is developed by the Pentagon and a few computer manufacturers. The DEC PDP-1 is introduced. It cost about $120,000.
  • 1961: IBM introduced the 1400 series. There is still a working one in the Computer History Museum today! Timesharing systems start to become super popular.
  • 1962: Sperry Rand developed thin-film memory which is a faster variation of core memory.
  • 1963: The first edition of the ASCII standard is published.
  • 1964: DEC's PDP-8 is introduced. IBM announced the System/360. Teletype introduced the ASR-33 terminal, which sold for around $700.
  • 1965: The Olivetti Programma 101 is released. NASA used some of these calculators on the Apollo space project.
  • 1966: ELIZA the natural language processing environment used for the psychotherapist chatbot "DOCTOR", which you can still use in emacs, is completed.
  • 1968: Edsger Dijkstra published his letter: "GO TO statement considered harmful" in Communications of the ACM. The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) is debuted. The IBM "Minnow" floppy disk drive, which was the floppy disk drive, began development. The mother of all demos takes place in San Francisco.
  • 1969: Apollo Guidance Computer read-only rope memory is launched into space with Apollo 11. UNIX is developed.

50s

  • 1950: Magnetic drum memory is developed for the US Navy.
  • 1951: The first Univac 1 is delivered to the US Census Bureau. Univac introduced the UNISERVO tape drive for the Univac 1. It was the first tape storage for a commercial computer. Alan Turing created the Turing Test.
  • 1952: On November 4th, the Univac computer predicted the outcome of the election.
  • 1953: Whirlwind core memory is developed at MIT. It was the first computer to use magnetic core memory.
  • 1954: IBM introduced the 650 magnetic drum calculator.
  • 1956: The first implementations of keyboards are developed at MIT. An early experiment was named a Flexowriter. IBM shipped the RAMAC computer with magnetic disk storage.
  • 1957: DEC was founded. FORTRAN is developed at IBM.
  • 1958: LISP is invented by John McCarthy at MIT.

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