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Programming History

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  • Frequency Hopping

    Frequency Hopping
    Nikola Tesla developed frequency hopping, which is now known as a spread spectrum. Source

  • Z1 Computer

    Z1 Computer
    Konrad Zuse invented the Z1 Computer which was the first freely programmable computer. Source

  • A-0 Compiler

    A-0 Compiler
    Mathematician Grace Hopper completed what is considered to be the first compiler, a program that allows a computer user to use English-like words instead of numbers. Source

  • LISP

    LISP
    LISP was the first computer language designed for writing artificial intelligence programs and it offered programmers flexibility in organization.It was created by John McCarthy. Source

  • Spacewar

    Spacewar
    Spacewar was the first computer game, and it was made by Steve Russell & MIT. Source

  • Virtual Memory

    Virtual Memory
    Virtual memory was developed from a team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn at the University of Manchester on its Atlas computer. It allowed a computer to use its storage capacity to switch quickly among several programs or users and is a key requirement for timesharing. Source

  • BASIC

    BASIC
    BASIC, an easy-to-learn programming language, was made by Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny. They made it for their students at Dartmouth College. Source

  • Apollo Guidance Computer

    Apollo Guidance Computer
    The Apollo Guidance Computer made its debut orbiting the Earth on Apollo 7. Astronauts communicated with the computer by htting two-digit codes and the appropriate syntactic category into the display and keyboard unit. Source

  • Microprocessor

    Microprocessor
    Faggin, Hoff, and Mazor made the Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor, the first microprocessor. Source

  • Pong

    Pong
    Pong was released by Atari. Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell assigned Allan Alcorn a training exercise, which ended up becoming Pong. Source

  • Tin Toy

    Tin Toy
    Taking the Oscar for best animated short film, Pixar´s "Tin Toy" became the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award. Source

  • SimCity

    SimCity
    Will Wright, from Maxis, released SimCity, a video game that helped launch of series of simulators. Source

  • WWW and HTML

    WWW and HTML
    The World Wide Web was came into play when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language. Source

  • Pentium Microprocessor

    Pentium Microprocessor
    The Pentium was the fifth generation of the ‘x86’ line of microprocessors from Intel. It introduced several advances that made programs run faster. Source

  • DOOM

    DOOM
    id Software released Doom, a widely popular but controversial first-person shooter game. Source