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The Beginning of Computing Software
Back in 1946, J. Presper Eckert Finished the first computer. When it was done, it weighed almost 50 tons and programmers didn't interact directly with computing devices. They delivered their programs to technicians and then picked up the results hours later after the programs were processed with many others.
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The First Programming Language
In 1957, the first widely used programming language was released to the public by IMB for mathematical and scientific computing in larger degrees.
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The Software Crisis
From 1965 to 1980, there was a recurring problem with computing and engineering. This problem was that there was increasing demand, complexity, and challenges in creating better software for the public. This in combination with the fact that there was the same workforce, tools, and methods meant that progress was at a halt.
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The Conference of Software Engineering
In January of 1968, the NATO engineering conference was held to attempt to combat the ongoing problem of the Software Crisis. This is the conference where the term Software Engineer was created.
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The Invention of Pascal
In February of 1970, Niklaus Wirth published the programming language Pascal, named in honor of the philosopher Blaise Pascal. The importance of Pascal is that it was the first language created with learning in mind. It was centered around beginning programmers, making it easier to learn other programming languages.
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The First Video Game
In early 1971, Nutting Associates released the first video game known as "Computer Space". This company later developed the Atari Gaming Console, and made millions. The game was based off a comic book called "Spacewar!". The game was quite simple, all you had to do was control a space ship and fire missiles at UFO's that passed by.
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The Creation of the Unix Operating System
In November of 1971, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created the programming language C for their newly designed operating system that they called UNICS (Uniplexed Information and Computing Service) which was later shortened to UNIX. The UNIX OS was later distributed as the first Linux Operating system.
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The First Interactive Personal Computer
In March of 1973, Xerox released the first desktop computer named the Xerox ALTO. the ALTO used a GUI (Graphical User Interface) which meant that it was usable for people that didn't know a programming language. This later developed into the Windows OS.
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Software Engineering Profession
In October of 1980, Software Engineering became a real profession, due to the rise in accessibility of computers with the invention of the "Microcomputers".
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The Creation of the Internet
In January of 1983, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf created a system known as ARPANET which was basically a "Network of Networks" meaning that it had a small database to hold queries and data that could be accessed by other people. At first, it wasn't widespread, but later, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.
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The World Wide Web
In August of 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a British Scientist from CERN, invented the World Wide Web. The web was conceived to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists in institutes around the world.
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Amazon's Creation
In July of 1994, Jeff Bezos began Amazon, which at the time was an online book retailer, who shipped to all 50 states and 45 countries. By 1998, Amazon had become a multi-million dollar company.
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The Release of Javascript
In May of 1995, Brendan Eich created JavaScript during his time at Netscape Communications. JavaScript was inspired by Java, Scheme, and Self. Netscape was later remade using JavaScript and became the best web browser in the world and enjoyed market dominance for a while.
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The First Touchscreen Phone
In October of 2001, the first touchscreen smartphone was released to the public. It was called the Samsung SPH-1300, and was the first phone to use Sprint's new mobile connection service. It was referred to at the time as a "PDA Phone" which meant that it had a color screen and calling functions.
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Introduction of Modern Coding Language
In January of 2002, Microsoft Corporation released the first version of their newly designed coding language called "C Sharp". With this new programming language came the new ".NET" framework, and today has had millions of dollars spent on developing and promoting it. C# has been named the best language ever made because of it's statistical approach at raw code.
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