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Computing Innovations

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Computing Innovations

←1940→

ENIAC, the 1st generally-programmable computer by the US Army (1946)
PLANKALKUL, the 1st High-Level Programming Language by Konrad Zuse (1948)

←1950→

SIMON, the 1st Personal Computer by Edmund Berkeley (1950)
AN/FSQ-7, the 1st computer with RTG Display by IBM (1951)
HD, the world's 1st computer hard disk drive (IBM, 1956)
FORTRAN, the 1st High-Level Programming Language by John W. Backus (1957)
BELL 101 MODEM, the first commercial-use modem (Bell Laboratories, 1959)

←1960→

PACKET SWITCHING (theory) by Leonard Kleinrock (MIT, 1961)
BASIC PROGRAMMING language by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz (Dartmouth College, 1964)
SIMULA, the 1st Object-Oriented Programming Language by Ole-Johan Dahl & Kristen Nygaard (1967)
PEROTTINA (Programma 101), the 1st commercial desktop computer by Pier Perotto (Olivetti, 1965)
ARPANET, the father of today's internet by the US Army (1967)
FD (Floppy disk drive), invented by IBM (1967)
DRAM (Dynamic Random-Access Memory) by Robert Dennard (1968)
UNIX, the large-scale networking OS by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and other developers (Bell Labs, 1969)
LASER PRINTER, invented by Gary Starkweather (Xerox, 1969)

←1970→

INTEL 1103, the 1st DRAM chip (1970)
TCP/IP protocol suite by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (1970)
INTEL 4004, the 1st CPU on a single chip by Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor (1971)
eMail, invented by Ray Tomlinson (ARPANET, 1971)
C Programming language, invented by Dennis Ritchie (1972)
ETHERNET, invented by Robert Metcalfe (Xerox, 1973)
XEROX ALTO, 1st personal computer with a mouse-driven GUI (1973)
SEQUEL (later SQL), invented by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce (IBM, 1974)
APPLE 1, the 1st computer with a single-circuit board and ROM by Steve Wozniak (Apple, 1976)
COMMODORE PET, 1st widely-available educational computer (Commodore, 1977)

←1980→

VRAM (Video RAM), by F. Dill, D. Ling, and R. Matick (IBM, 1980)
MIDI, the 1st MIDI interface designed by Dave Smith and Chet Wood (1981)
ARM1, the 1st commercial RISC processor by Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber (Acorn, 1985)
AMIGA, the 1st multimedia personal computer (Commodore, 1985)

←1990→

World Wide Web, by Tim Berners-Lee (CERN, 1991)
Linux OS, by Linus Torvalds (1991)

HARDWARE: Amiga
COMPOSER: Jochen Hippel (Mad Max)
RELEASED: 1990 (Video Game for Amiga/Atari ST)

Read more: Rings of Medusa (Amiga)

HARDWARE: Commodore 64 (C64)
COMPOSER: Mikko Paronen (Coax)
RELEASED: 1990

HARDWARE: Amiga
COMPOSER: Jogeir Liljedahl

HARDWARE: Atari STE
COMPOSER: TOMCHI (Nicholas Flandin)
RELEASED: 6 July 2019 | 3rd in the Sommarhack 2019 Combined Music Competition

HARDWARE: Atari STE
COMPOSER: Fenarinarsa
RELEASED: December 2017 (3rd on Silly Venture 2017 release party)

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