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- oboshoe, on 11/19/2008, -2/+47lol..they had to get an Iphone reference in there.
I really really like my Iphone and all my apple stuff. But Iphone store being one the greatest days of computing...come on! - crodulfo, on 11/19/2008, -1/+34this an apple released article?
. . . barely any words on microsoft included.
im a mac user, but we must say that microsoft has been a big part of the history of computing. - clickwir, on 11/19/2008, -0/+29It mentions YouTube, Napster, and the iphone. But nothing of Linux. Not even Windows?
This list is busted. - dha07030, on 11/19/2008, -2/+31The day I discovered internet porn.
- slapded, on 11/19/2008, -1/+28This article was ok until I got to the last one.. July 11, 2008: Apple launches the iPhone App Store
WTF??????? - vacuum2440, on 11/19/2008, -1/+28why the ***** is the iphone app store even on there...like c'mon now, I own an iphone and I love apple but really? the app store was that historic?
- douglasr007, on 11/19/2008, -1/+26lol @ July 11, 2008
no. - bixby1, on 11/19/2008, -1/+24I love that Pac-Man is considered an important moment. I loved that game.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -2/+18That one was pretty lame. I mean comparing the app store to the creation of the internet, e-mail, transistor... come on. If any store should be up there it should be Amazon or E-Bay.
- onemanwaking, on 11/19/2008, -0/+12They included the iPhone App Store but neglected to mention October 5, 1991 ?!?!?!?!?
- Jamminn, on 11/19/2008, -0/+11Ok, OK. Let me get this straight, Colossus / Turing and the transistor are on there, alongside the ***** iPhone app store.
Come the ***** on. - JSager, on 11/19/2008, -0/+11This is a good list, but it misses out on a huge number of really important things that have revolutionized computing, the way that humans interact with each other, and things that upended sometimes centuries-old industries:
1. The development of human-sensible programming languages (assembly).
2. The development of object-oriented programming languages.
3. Instant Messaging
4. VOIP
5. Multi-user dungeons.
6. Home video game consoles
7. Pornograhy (no, really, it's driven a lot of innovation)
8. Webcams
9. Social Networking
10. AOL (say what you want, it was a huge deal in the 90s)
11. Client/server software
12. Desktop publishing suites - there was a time when there was such a thing as the typesetting and printing industries.
13. The modem
14. Broadband
15. Linux
16. Open Source in general
17. Internet Advertising
18. Free products as a way to sell a core service (Google anyone?)
19, Cellphones (NOT the iPhone store, give me a break)
And that's just off the top of my head. It seems to me that Pong had a much bigger impact on the world than Deep Blue defeating Kasparov, and quite honestly if not for assembly language and its descendants the modern computing world simply wouldn't exist. - drikle, on 11/19/2008, -0/+9Yeah pretty amazing. It doesn't even mention the most used OS in the world. The success story of Bill and his vision "a PC on every desk". I mean dude. Apple Mac, iPhone app store, Apple2 and no word about Bill. The writer is a bit biased I must say!
Woops must have clicked the wrong reply link. fail - BeShirtHappy, on 11/19/2008, -2/+8It's funny to see how big the first portable computer was... we've come a long way baby!
- bcardarella, on 11/19/2008, -0/+6I think this should have been included:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Dem ...
Pretty impressive list for the time.
For those too lazy to click & read:
"The demo featured the first computer mouse the public had ever seen, as well as introducing interactive text, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email and hypertext" - inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7Seriously, you can't include Pac-Man and not Pong. Pong was the original. Before pong, there was no such thing as a video game.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5No C64 mentions? It was only the greatest and best selling computer of all time. Why does it always get overshadowed by the Apple ii. The Apple ii had like 6 colors, a ***** soundcard and horrible games and cost like 4x as much as C64.
- oboshoe, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5I remember telling my wife I setup a hotmail account way back when.
She looked at me like I had lost my mind. She thought I said I opened up a "hot male" account - oboshoe, on 11/19/2008, -2/+7BEST thing about computing history:
I'm old enough to remember almost all of it, and young enough to understand and use it. - Jaime2000, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5November 18, 2008: Rejecting a cheap chance to gain more hits and ad revenue, a 25 item list is posted in one single page. It is promptly dugg for that reason.
- NathanCH, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5Can't wait to see what the next 10 years brings us.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6Yeah, not a single mention of a Windows release, but the iPhone App Store, now that was a pivotal moment for sure!
- DonJuanAussi, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4The AppleII was not the first machine to popularise personal computing. It is if you chose it arbitrarily on arbitrary conditions. price? Well many would argue that is was far too expensive to be used as a personal machine... Four years later the Sinclair ZX 81 was selling for approximately $50 US if you were handy with a soldering Iron and willing to build it yourself. Still the cheapest popular computer in history.
No suggestion of the Amiga which was the first computer to bring Multitasking, animation, video production and full colour graphics to the masses.
Or the Atari ST which was the first to market with a colour WIMP interface... Yeah, it took them 6 months longer to get their system to market than Apple did... but Apple had a LOT of catching up to do that took the best part of a decade. You hardly have something revolutionary if you find yourself behind everyone else 6 months later and your competition are still beating you in 10 years.
The Archimedies RISC machines do not earn a mention. BBC invented the RISC architecture, made the first RISC CPUs and made the first computer that utilised those CPUs. Now is that not important considering every man jack of you reading this utilises a RISC CPU every hour of the day? RISC is the standard architecture in low power CPUs... like in your iPhone, Blackberry, or any other phone made in the past 10 years. - rif42, on 11/19/2008, -0/+41983-11-20 Borland releases Turbo Pascal 1, compiler and first IDE for $50
- richw, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4so no mention of Microsoft whatsoever, but the iphone app store makes the list? seriously? Why is that so important? Why not just throw download.com up there for its vast array of software available for both pc and mac. I'm sure more people use download.com then the iphone app store. Although some of the things listed in that article I'd consider top days in computing history, the person who wrote that article missed A LOT MORE IMPORTANT things.
- SeniorScrapper, on 11/19/2008, -1/+5I love lists, and history. Especially lists of tech history.
- random12345, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Apple App store is not big or memorable by any means. I'm not a vendor specific fanboy at all, and I love Apple, Linux, and Microsoft all the same. The release of Windows 95 was far more a bigger event. Hell, the announcement of the Apple iPhone was bigger than the opening/release of the app store.
Buried simply due to App store. - Stavrosian, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3No love for The Baby (or EDSAC, depending on your point of view)? I'd say the first digital machine to run a stored program was pretty important.
- UnFriendlyFire, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3I agree, the GUI should have been on the list.
- billbugger, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3Write an article. I'd digg it.
- defaultfilter, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3honorable mention:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Popular_Electro ... - inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+490 percent of the world is running on Windows and the myopic Mac-loving limey who wrote this article doesn't have a single Windows release date as one of the pivotal moments in computing history? Give me a friggen' break.
- veriix, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3Was 24 not a good list number?
- UNCsucks, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3Dugg for the Difference Engine video.
- dddavid, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2#1 (should have been): Alan Touring explains his theory that computers could be used for more than just great big calculators. This is the single biggest event in the history of computing, allowing for: word processing, computer games, internet porn (let's not forget the important stuff), and everything else a computer does other than adding, subtracting, and multiplying, etc...
- iamamaniac, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3Thats a great read! I’m a big fan of the history of computing and of retrocomputing.
- oldhick, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2That's what I was thinking... I just rambled on. You said it far better. Kudos.
- TriSight, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I thought the same thing. Regardless of what you prefer, you still can't change the history of things. I kept looking for the release of Windows 95 which was a huge event. There were people lined up outside of the local babbages and other software stores waiting to get it.
I think this list is incomplete for many reasons including the ones you've mentioned. - built2spill, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2...oh, i get it
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2The lines of people waiting to get their hands on Windows 98 were so long, it was the top story on every newscast, but Apple spending $1 million on the 1984 Super Bowl ad? Now that was the real historic moment. Give me a break you Mac-lovin' wanker.
- rif42, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2@Jamminn and zulelord
25 years today! Here is some historical insight:
http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/11/18/39175 - DteK, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Pretty funny that HP could have been called Packard-Hewlett had the coin landed on a different side. For some reason it doesnt have that same ring to it though.
- billbugger, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2And hopefully on 1 page.
- oboshoe, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3Me 2.
Someday, they are going to make a list of the top 10 best lists. - pdt162004, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Where's the day Windows ME was retired??
- demodawid, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Thanks. Every line in that picture is pure gold.
- sexybobo, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3October 5, 1991 - First linux kernal released.
So you don't have to google it like i did - random12345, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Even if the guy was an apple fanboy, it doesn't even mention the release of OSX, the iPod, or the iMac- by far the saviors of Apple that if it wasn't for those products, Apple would possibly be non-existent today.
- commiecat, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2February 16, 1978: Ward Christensen brings the first BBS online. Might not be historical enough for Tech Central, but I spent a good amount of time in the very late '80s to mid-'90s on bulletin boards, which was really a catalyst to bringing the Internet into our homes.
- billbugger, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2But it seems to work.
IMO Bill Gates wasn't so much a technical genius as he was a marketing genius.
What made Microsoft so much damn money is the propagation of the EULA.
Where you didn't own the software you were using, rather you were purchasing the right to use the software. Whereby keeping the ownership of the software squarely in Microsoft's hands and control. -
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