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Timeline of random tech

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Timeline of random tech

1957
- Fortran
1958
- LISP
1960
- LISP I Programmer's Manual (McMarthy et al)
- ALGOL 60
1962
- LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (McMarthy et al)
- Spacewar!
1963
- ASCII (first published edition of the standard)
- Cassette tape
1964
- BASIC
- IBM System/360
1965
- PDP-8
1967
- BCPL
1969
- ARPANET
1970
- PDP-11
- IBM System/370
- UNIX (written in PDP-11 assembly)
- Pascal
- B
1971
- UNIX Programmer's Manual (Thompson & Ritchie)
- Computer Space
1972
- C
- Smalltalk
- Pong
1973
- Xerox Alto
- Fourth Edition Unix (written in C)
- ML
1974
- Intel 8080
- Altair 8800
- CP/M
1975
- MOS 6502
- Sixth Edition Unix
- Microsoft
- Microsoft BASIC (initially sold as "Altair BASIC")
- Scheme
1976
- CONS Lisp Machine
- Apple Computer Company
- Apple I
- Z80
- VHS
- Breakout
1977
- VAX 11/780
- Apple II
- Applesoft BASIC
- TRS-80
- Commodore PET
- Atari 2600
- The C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie)
1978
- Apple DOS
- Intel 8086
- CADR Lisp Machine
- 1BSD
- VT100
- LaserDisc
- Space Invaders
1979
- Seventh Edition Unix
- TI-99/4
- VisiCalc
- Asteroids
1980
- Motorola 68000
- Acorn Atom
- Sinclair ZX80
- Ethernet (first commercial release)
- Symbolics
- Usenet
- Red Book CD-DA
- Pac-Man
1981
- MS-DOS
- IBM Personal Computer
- BBC Micro
- Commodore VIC-20
- Symbolics LM-2
- IPv4
- Defender
1982
- Intel 286
- Commodore 64
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- ColecoVision
- Lattice C
- Sony CDP-101
1983
- NES
- SunOS
- Apple Lisa
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Turbo Pascal
- Standard ML
- IEEE 802.3
- ARPANET switches to TCP/IP
- Yellow Book CD-ROM
1984
- Macintosh
- System 1
- Objective-C
- Sony Discman
1985
- Intel 386
- Windows
- Jobs leaves Apple
- NeXT, Inc.
- C++, The C++ Programming Language (Stroustrup)
- Sun-3 workstations
- Amiga 1000
1986
- R2000 (MIPS I)
- Sega Master System
1987
- Windows 2.0
- IBM PS/2
- Macintosh II (color graphics)
- System 4.1
- Amiga 500
- OS/2
- Borland Turbo C
- GCC
1988
- NeXT Computer
- POSIX.1
- Perl
- ISO 9660
1989
- Sega Genesis
- Intel 486
- ANSI C
- Sun SPARCstation 1
- NeXTSTEP
- World Wide Web
- NiMH battery (first consumer-grade cells)
- Prince of Persia
- SimCity
1990
- Windows 3.0
- SNES
- Nexus (first web browser, by Tim Berners-Lee)
- IBM System/390
- NeXTcube
- NeXTstation
- Haskell
- Unicode (first volume of the standard was published)
- Wing Commander
1991
- R4000 (MIPS III, 64-bit)
- SGI Indigo
- Linux
- Apple PowerBook
- Python
- Gopher
- Civilization
- Another World
- The first website goes live
- Li-ion battery (first commercial release)
1992
- SGI Indigo2
- IBM ThinkPad
- OpenGL 1.0
- Windows 3.1
- DEC Alpha
- Plan 9
- Apple Newton
- UTF-8
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Sony MiniDisc
1993
- Intel Pentium
- PowerPC 601
- NCSA Mosaic (first web browser to support images)
- Windows NT 3.1
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- Lua
- Doom
- 623 websites are online by the end of 1993
1994
- Power Macintosh 6100 (first PowerPC model)
- System 7.1.2 (PowerPC)
- PlayStation
- ANSI Common Lisp
- Doom II
- Warcraft
- Netscape Navigator
- geocities.com
- 2,738 websites are online by the end of 1994
1995
- Sun Ultra 1 (UltraSPARC, 64-bit)
- Windows 95
- Internet Explorer
- Java
- PHP
- MySQL
- OpenBSD
- IPv6
- Sega Saturn
- Command & Conquer
1996
- Nintendo 64
- Windows NT 4.0
- Ruby
- OCaml
- PostgreSQL
- Intel Pentium MMX
- SGI O2
- Inferno
- 3dfx Voodoo1
- ATI 3D Rage
- ATI 3D Rage II
- Quake
- DVD
1997
- Intel Pentium II
- PowerPC 750 ("G3")
- Jobs returns to Apple
- PowerBook G3
- Power Macintosh G3
- OpenGL 1.1
- ATI 3D Rage Pro
- Nvidia RIVA 128
- Quake II
1998
- iMac G3
- Windows 98
- Mozilla
- google.com
- OpenGL 1.2
- 3dfx Voodoo2
- Nvidia RIVA TNT
- ATI Rage 128
- Half-Life
- Starcraft
1999
- Intel Pentium III
- PowerPC 7400 ("G4")
- Power Mac G4
- iBook G3 ("Clamshell")
- Sega Dreamcast
- 3dfx Voodoo3
- Nvidia RIVA TNT2
- Nvidia GeForce 256 (first card with hardware transform & lighting)
- ATI Rage 128 Pro
- Quake III Arena
- Homeworld
2000
- Intel Pentium 4
- Power Mac G4 Cube
- PlayStation 2
- Windows 2000
- C#
- IBM Z
- SQLite
- The Sims
- Deus Ex
2001
- PowerBook G4
- Mac OS 9.2.2 (last 9.x release)
- OS X 10.0 "Cheetah"
- OS X 10.1 "Puma"
- iPod
- GameCube
- Xbox
- Internet Explorer 6
- Windows XP
2002
- eMac
- PowerPC 970 ("G5", 64-bit)
- iMac G4
- OS X 10.2 "Jaguar"
- Firefox
2003
- Power Mac G5
- OS X 10.3 "Panther"
- Safari
- Via C3 (I built a PC using the 1GHz "Nehemiah". It sucked.)
- myspace.com
- LLVM
2004
- iMac G5
- gmail.com
- thefacebook.com
2005
- Mac mini
- Xbox 360
- OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
- youtube.com
- git
2006
- Intel Core 2 (64-bit)
- MacBook
- MacBook Pro
- Wii
- PlayStation 3
- Windows Vista
- twitter.com
- Blu-ray
2007
- iPhone
- OS X 10.5 "Leopard" (last OS X with PowerPC support)
- Clojure
- Clang
- Neo4j
- news.ycombinator.com
2008
- iPhone 3GS
- MacBook Air
- Intel Core i7
- Google Chrome
2009
- OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" (first Intel-only OS X)
- Windows 7
- MongoDB
2010
- iPad
- Rust
2011
- iPhone 4S
2012
- Windows 8
- Golang (1.0)
2013
- iPhone 5c
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
2014
- Swift
2015
- iPhone 6S
- Windows 10
2016
- Zig
2017
- iPhone 8
2019
- iPhone 11
2017
- Nintendo Switch
2020
- Apple M1
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
2021
- iPhone 13
- Windows 11
2022

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