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Adobe (Macromedia) Flash (1996)
A browser plugin platform for animation, interactive content, and video …
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Apache Hadoop (2006)
An open-source framework for storing and processing huge datasets across …
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Babbage's Analytical and Difference Engines
The first designs for an automatic calculating machine and a …
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (2015)
A Linux Foundation body that hosts and governs vendor-neutral …
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COBOL (1959 to 1960)
The English-like business programming language defined by the CODASYL …
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ENIAC
The room-sized machine of about 17,468 vacuum tubes that became the …
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First compiler (Grace Hopper's A-0)
The A-0 system Grace Hopper wrote for UNIVAC I in 1951 to 1952, an early …
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FORTRAN (1957)
The first widely used high-level programming language, built at IBM for …
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Google Reader (2005 to 2013)
A web-based RSS and Atom feed aggregator that let people follow blogs …
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Graphical User Interface (Apple Macintosh)
The first commercially successful personal computer built around a …
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Hollerith punched-card tabulator
An 1889 electromechanical machine that recorded data as holes in cards, …
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IBM Personal Computer (5150)
IBM's first mass-market personal computer, whose open architecture and …
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Intel 4004 Microprocessor
The first commercial general-purpose programmable microprocessor, a …
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Jacquard loom (punched-card control)
A 1804 loom controlled by punched cards, the first practical machine to …
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Java (1995)
A general-purpose language that compiles to bytecode and runs on the …
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JavaScript (1995)
The scripting language that made web pages interactive and later spread …
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Magnetic-core memory
Computer memory built from tiny magnetizable ferrite rings on a grid of …
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MongoDB relicenses to SSPL (2018)
MongoDB moved its Community Server from AGPLv3 to its own Server Side …
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PHP (1995)
A server-side scripting language that embeds code inside HTML to build …
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Python 2 end of life (2020)
Python 2 reached end of life on 1 January 2020, ending all fixes, …
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SQL (1974)
The declarative query language for relational databases that lets you …
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TensorFlow (2015)
Google's open-source machine learning framework for building and …
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The Turing Machine (On Computable Numbers)
Alan Turing's 1936 abstract machine that reads and writes symbols on an …
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Three-tier architecture (early 1990s)
The pattern that splits an application into a presentation tier, an …
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Transistor
A solid-state semiconductor device that amplifies or switches electrical …
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UNIVAC I
The first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the …
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Von Neumann Architecture (EDVAC Report)
The 1945 design that holds program instructions and data in the same …
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Windows XP
Microsoft's long-lived desktop operating system from 2001, prized for …
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XML 1.0 (1998)
A text format for marking up structured data so machines and people can …
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