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1. Zero\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n800 AD\u00a0\u2013\u00a0India.\u00a0Since you can\u2019t have a computer without 1s and 0s, I think the invention of the number zero is significant. You can argue whether this happened in Egypt, Mesopotamia or India. In my opinion it was India as they were the first to treat it like a number and used the decimal point since year 595.<\/p>\n
2. Pascal adding machine<\/strong><\/h2>\n1642 \u2013\u00a0France. Blaise Pascal builds\u00a0the Pascal Adding Machine \u2013 the first workable calculator. To me this is more significant than Napier\u2019s bones, the development of logarithm tables or some mechanical devices like the watch or the quadrant, because the device does the computing.<\/p>\n
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\n3. Binary number system\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1679 – Germany. Gottfried Leibniz perfects the binary number system.<\/p>\n
4. Electricity<\/strong><\/h2>\n1751 \u2013\u00a0USA.\u00a0Computers don\u2019t work without electricity so Ben Franklin\u2019s discovery in 1751 should make the list.<\/p>\n
5. Textile loom\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1801 \u2013\u00a0France.\u00a0Joseph Jacquard builds his textile loom using the concept of a punch card to weave intricate designs into cloth. This is the foundation of a programmable machine.<\/p>\n
6. Analytical engine<\/strong><\/h2>\n1833 \u2013 UK.\u00a0Charles Babbage has\u00a0the idea for the Analytical Engine, and although he didn\u2019t build it, it sets the foundations for all modern computers. Augusta Ada Byran, AKA Ada Lovelace who worked with him, proposed using punched cards like Jacquard\u2019s loom to make it programmable.<\/p>\n
7. Boolean algebra<\/strong><\/h2>\n1854 \u2013 UK. George Boole creates Boolean algebra laying the foundation of Information Theory. This is where \u201cand\u201d, \u201cor\u201d and \u201cnot\u201d come into mathematical formulas. This was later used by Charles Sanders Peirce to develop the idea that Boole\u2019s logic lends itself to electrical switching circuits. It would be 50 years until Bertrand Russell presented the idea that this is the foundation of all mathematics and another 30 years until Claude Shannon incorporated the symbolic \u201ctrue or false\u201d logic into electrical switching circuits.<\/p>\n
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8. Thermionic emissions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1863 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emissions, the basis of the vacuum tube, which, in turn, becomes the building blocks for the entire electronics industry. When the vacuum was invented in 1907 it enabled amplified radio and telephone technology.<\/p>\n
9. Nipkow disk\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1925 \u2013 UK.\u00a0You could argue that the TV gets its roots from fax transmissions back in 1843, but when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems.<\/p>\n
10. Automatic programming\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1936 \u2013 UK.\u00a0I have watched a few documentaries on Alan Turing and visited an exhibit in a museum here in the UK on him. Pretty amazing guy. He was the guy that provided the basis for the development of automatic programming showing that computing machines can simulate more complicated problems. If it wasn\u2019t for him the Z2, the first digital computer that\u00a0was used to break Germans\u2019 Enigma, would not have built.<\/p>\n
11. Transistor<\/strong><\/h2>\n1948 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John Bardeen invents the transistor.<\/p>\n
12. Magnetic core memory<\/strong><\/h2>\n1949 \u2013 USA. An Wang invents magnetic core memory.\u00a0He doesn’t\u00a0build it but\u00a0sells\u00a0the patent to IBM for $400K to get the funds to start his company. His\u00a0concept turns out not to be practical, until\u00a0Jay Forrester at MIT enhances the idea to put it into a matrix to give it greater practical applications. This is later developed into computer memory developed by Fred Williams.<\/p>\n
13. COBOL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1952 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Grace Hopper pioneers the idea of using higher level computer languages and built the concept of a compiler so we could program in words not numbers and this gave rise to COBOL, the first language to run on multiple types of computers.<\/p>\n
14. SABRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
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3. Binary number system\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1679 – Germany. Gottfried Leibniz perfects the binary number system.<\/p>\n
4. Electricity<\/strong><\/h2>\n1751 \u2013\u00a0USA.\u00a0Computers don\u2019t work without electricity so Ben Franklin\u2019s discovery in 1751 should make the list.<\/p>\n
5. Textile loom\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1801 \u2013\u00a0France.\u00a0Joseph Jacquard builds his textile loom using the concept of a punch card to weave intricate designs into cloth. This is the foundation of a programmable machine.<\/p>\n
6. Analytical engine<\/strong><\/h2>\n1833 \u2013 UK.\u00a0Charles Babbage has\u00a0the idea for the Analytical Engine, and although he didn\u2019t build it, it sets the foundations for all modern computers. Augusta Ada Byran, AKA Ada Lovelace who worked with him, proposed using punched cards like Jacquard\u2019s loom to make it programmable.<\/p>\n
7. Boolean algebra<\/strong><\/h2>\n1854 \u2013 UK. George Boole creates Boolean algebra laying the foundation of Information Theory. This is where \u201cand\u201d, \u201cor\u201d and \u201cnot\u201d come into mathematical formulas. This was later used by Charles Sanders Peirce to develop the idea that Boole\u2019s logic lends itself to electrical switching circuits. It would be 50 years until Bertrand Russell presented the idea that this is the foundation of all mathematics and another 30 years until Claude Shannon incorporated the symbolic \u201ctrue or false\u201d logic into electrical switching circuits.<\/p>\n
8. Thermionic emissions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1863 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emissions, the basis of the vacuum tube, which, in turn, becomes the building blocks for the entire electronics industry. When the vacuum was invented in 1907 it enabled amplified radio and telephone technology.<\/p>\n
9. Nipkow disk\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1925 \u2013 UK.\u00a0You could argue that the TV gets its roots from fax transmissions back in 1843, but when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems.<\/p>\n
10. Automatic programming\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1936 \u2013 UK.\u00a0I have watched a few documentaries on Alan Turing and visited an exhibit in a museum here in the UK on him. Pretty amazing guy. He was the guy that provided the basis for the development of automatic programming showing that computing machines can simulate more complicated problems. If it wasn\u2019t for him the Z2, the first digital computer that\u00a0was used to break Germans\u2019 Enigma, would not have built.<\/p>\n
11. Transistor<\/strong><\/h2>\n1948 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John Bardeen invents the transistor.<\/p>\n
12. Magnetic core memory<\/strong><\/h2>\n1949 \u2013 USA. An Wang invents magnetic core memory.\u00a0He doesn’t\u00a0build it but\u00a0sells\u00a0the patent to IBM for $400K to get the funds to start his company. His\u00a0concept turns out not to be practical, until\u00a0Jay Forrester at MIT enhances the idea to put it into a matrix to give it greater practical applications. This is later developed into computer memory developed by Fred Williams.<\/p>\n
13. COBOL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1952 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Grace Hopper pioneers the idea of using higher level computer languages and built the concept of a compiler so we could program in words not numbers and this gave rise to COBOL, the first language to run on multiple types of computers.<\/p>\n
14. SABRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1751 \u2013\u00a0USA.\u00a0Computers don\u2019t work without electricity so Ben Franklin\u2019s discovery in 1751 should make the list.<\/p>\n
5. Textile loom\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1801 \u2013\u00a0France.\u00a0Joseph Jacquard builds his textile loom using the concept of a punch card to weave intricate designs into cloth. This is the foundation of a programmable machine.<\/p>\n
6. Analytical engine<\/strong><\/h2>\n1833 \u2013 UK.\u00a0Charles Babbage has\u00a0the idea for the Analytical Engine, and although he didn\u2019t build it, it sets the foundations for all modern computers. Augusta Ada Byran, AKA Ada Lovelace who worked with him, proposed using punched cards like Jacquard\u2019s loom to make it programmable.<\/p>\n
7. Boolean algebra<\/strong><\/h2>\n1854 \u2013 UK. George Boole creates Boolean algebra laying the foundation of Information Theory. This is where \u201cand\u201d, \u201cor\u201d and \u201cnot\u201d come into mathematical formulas. This was later used by Charles Sanders Peirce to develop the idea that Boole\u2019s logic lends itself to electrical switching circuits. It would be 50 years until Bertrand Russell presented the idea that this is the foundation of all mathematics and another 30 years until Claude Shannon incorporated the symbolic \u201ctrue or false\u201d logic into electrical switching circuits.<\/p>\n
8. Thermionic emissions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1863 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emissions, the basis of the vacuum tube, which, in turn, becomes the building blocks for the entire electronics industry. When the vacuum was invented in 1907 it enabled amplified radio and telephone technology.<\/p>\n
9. Nipkow disk\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1925 \u2013 UK.\u00a0You could argue that the TV gets its roots from fax transmissions back in 1843, but when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems.<\/p>\n
10. Automatic programming\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1936 \u2013 UK.\u00a0I have watched a few documentaries on Alan Turing and visited an exhibit in a museum here in the UK on him. Pretty amazing guy. He was the guy that provided the basis for the development of automatic programming showing that computing machines can simulate more complicated problems. If it wasn\u2019t for him the Z2, the first digital computer that\u00a0was used to break Germans\u2019 Enigma, would not have built.<\/p>\n
11. Transistor<\/strong><\/h2>\n1948 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John Bardeen invents the transistor.<\/p>\n
12. Magnetic core memory<\/strong><\/h2>\n1949 \u2013 USA. An Wang invents magnetic core memory.\u00a0He doesn’t\u00a0build it but\u00a0sells\u00a0the patent to IBM for $400K to get the funds to start his company. His\u00a0concept turns out not to be practical, until\u00a0Jay Forrester at MIT enhances the idea to put it into a matrix to give it greater practical applications. This is later developed into computer memory developed by Fred Williams.<\/p>\n
13. COBOL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1952 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Grace Hopper pioneers the idea of using higher level computer languages and built the concept of a compiler so we could program in words not numbers and this gave rise to COBOL, the first language to run on multiple types of computers.<\/p>\n
14. SABRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1833 \u2013 UK.\u00a0Charles Babbage has\u00a0the idea for the Analytical Engine, and although he didn\u2019t build it, it sets the foundations for all modern computers. Augusta Ada Byran, AKA Ada Lovelace who worked with him, proposed using punched cards like Jacquard\u2019s loom to make it programmable.<\/p>\n
7. Boolean algebra<\/strong><\/h2>\n1854 \u2013 UK. George Boole creates Boolean algebra laying the foundation of Information Theory. This is where \u201cand\u201d, \u201cor\u201d and \u201cnot\u201d come into mathematical formulas. This was later used by Charles Sanders Peirce to develop the idea that Boole\u2019s logic lends itself to electrical switching circuits. It would be 50 years until Bertrand Russell presented the idea that this is the foundation of all mathematics and another 30 years until Claude Shannon incorporated the symbolic \u201ctrue or false\u201d logic into electrical switching circuits.<\/p>\n
8. Thermionic emissions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1863 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emissions, the basis of the vacuum tube, which, in turn, becomes the building blocks for the entire electronics industry. When the vacuum was invented in 1907 it enabled amplified radio and telephone technology.<\/p>\n
9. Nipkow disk\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1925 \u2013 UK.\u00a0You could argue that the TV gets its roots from fax transmissions back in 1843, but when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems.<\/p>\n
10. Automatic programming\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1936 \u2013 UK.\u00a0I have watched a few documentaries on Alan Turing and visited an exhibit in a museum here in the UK on him. Pretty amazing guy. He was the guy that provided the basis for the development of automatic programming showing that computing machines can simulate more complicated problems. If it wasn\u2019t for him the Z2, the first digital computer that\u00a0was used to break Germans\u2019 Enigma, would not have built.<\/p>\n
11. Transistor<\/strong><\/h2>\n1948 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John Bardeen invents the transistor.<\/p>\n
12. Magnetic core memory<\/strong><\/h2>\n1949 \u2013 USA. An Wang invents magnetic core memory.\u00a0He doesn’t\u00a0build it but\u00a0sells\u00a0the patent to IBM for $400K to get the funds to start his company. His\u00a0concept turns out not to be practical, until\u00a0Jay Forrester at MIT enhances the idea to put it into a matrix to give it greater practical applications. This is later developed into computer memory developed by Fred Williams.<\/p>\n
13. COBOL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1952 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Grace Hopper pioneers the idea of using higher level computer languages and built the concept of a compiler so we could program in words not numbers and this gave rise to COBOL, the first language to run on multiple types of computers.<\/p>\n
14. SABRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
8. Thermionic emissions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1863 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emissions, the basis of the vacuum tube, which, in turn, becomes the building blocks for the entire electronics industry. When the vacuum was invented in 1907 it enabled amplified radio and telephone technology.<\/p>\n
9. Nipkow disk\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1925 \u2013 UK.\u00a0You could argue that the TV gets its roots from fax transmissions back in 1843, but when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems.<\/p>\n
10. Automatic programming\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1936 \u2013 UK.\u00a0I have watched a few documentaries on Alan Turing and visited an exhibit in a museum here in the UK on him. Pretty amazing guy. He was the guy that provided the basis for the development of automatic programming showing that computing machines can simulate more complicated problems. If it wasn\u2019t for him the Z2, the first digital computer that\u00a0was used to break Germans\u2019 Enigma, would not have built.<\/p>\n
11. Transistor<\/strong><\/h2>\n1948 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John Bardeen invents the transistor.<\/p>\n
12. Magnetic core memory<\/strong><\/h2>\n1949 \u2013 USA. An Wang invents magnetic core memory.\u00a0He doesn’t\u00a0build it but\u00a0sells\u00a0the patent to IBM for $400K to get the funds to start his company. His\u00a0concept turns out not to be practical, until\u00a0Jay Forrester at MIT enhances the idea to put it into a matrix to give it greater practical applications. This is later developed into computer memory developed by Fred Williams.<\/p>\n
13. COBOL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1952 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Grace Hopper pioneers the idea of using higher level computer languages and built the concept of a compiler so we could program in words not numbers and this gave rise to COBOL, the first language to run on multiple types of computers.<\/p>\n
14. SABRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1936 \u2013 UK.\u00a0I have watched a few documentaries on Alan Turing and visited an exhibit in a museum here in the UK on him. Pretty amazing guy. He was the guy that provided the basis for the development of automatic programming showing that computing machines can simulate more complicated problems. If it wasn\u2019t for him the Z2, the first digital computer that\u00a0was used to break Germans\u2019 Enigma, would not have built.<\/p>\n
11. Transistor<\/strong><\/h2>\n1948 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John Bardeen invents the transistor.<\/p>\n
12. Magnetic core memory<\/strong><\/h2>\n1949 \u2013 USA. An Wang invents magnetic core memory.\u00a0He doesn’t\u00a0build it but\u00a0sells\u00a0the patent to IBM for $400K to get the funds to start his company. His\u00a0concept turns out not to be practical, until\u00a0Jay Forrester at MIT enhances the idea to put it into a matrix to give it greater practical applications. This is later developed into computer memory developed by Fred Williams.<\/p>\n
13. COBOL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1952 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Grace Hopper pioneers the idea of using higher level computer languages and built the concept of a compiler so we could program in words not numbers and this gave rise to COBOL, the first language to run on multiple types of computers.<\/p>\n
14. SABRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1949 \u2013 USA. An Wang invents magnetic core memory.\u00a0He doesn’t\u00a0build it but\u00a0sells\u00a0the patent to IBM for $400K to get the funds to start his company. His\u00a0concept turns out not to be practical, until\u00a0Jay Forrester at MIT enhances the idea to put it into a matrix to give it greater practical applications. This is later developed into computer memory developed by Fred Williams.<\/p>\n
13. COBOL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1952 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Grace Hopper pioneers the idea of using higher level computer languages and built the concept of a compiler so we could program in words not numbers and this gave rise to COBOL, the first language to run on multiple types of computers.<\/p>\n
14. SABRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1953 \u2013 USA. The airline industry develops a semi-automatic business research environment (SABRE) with two connected mainframes, the start of computer networking. This project did borrow some logic from the military SAGE project. I feel it is the foundation of networking that\u00a0really took off after Robert Metcalfe created Ethernet for Xerox, but the current internet gets it roots from ARPANET in 1969, which was\u00a0the first network to implement TCP\/IP and the ancestor of today’s Internet.<\/p>\n
15. John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1961 \u2013 USA.\u00a0John F. Kennedy launches his \u201cI believe we should go to the moon\u201d speech that\u00a0put funding and research into computer science.<\/p>\n
16. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1963 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The database is critical to today\u2019s computing environment. The first reference I can find to a commercial database comes\u00a0from General Electric\u2019s release of IDS.<\/p>\n
17. IBM System\/360\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA.\u00a0IBM releases the IBM System\/360, the first computer system with the concept of a modular, compatible general purpose computer. This leads to the expansion of computer systems and the foundation of the personal computer market. Some could argue that it was the DEC PDP-11 developed in 1975 that really led to the PC market. The PDP-11 was just easier to program, had general-purpose registers, interrupts and could be manufactured with semi-skilled labor.<\/p>\n
18. Human-computer interaction\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1964 – USA.\u00a0The first concepts of a mouse, graphical user interface\u00a0and\u00a0hypertext are created by Doug Engelbart. It wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that Xerox PARC developed the Alto that\u00a0was later stolen by Microsoft and Apple.<\/p>\n
19. Intel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1964 \u2013 USA. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce create Intel to build the integrated circuit. After forming the company it only takes them\u00a0a year to proffer Moore\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
20. First software patent\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1968 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The first software patent is issued to Martin Goetz. Without this the software industry could not have received\u00a0the capital to develop.<\/p>\n
21. Atari\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The video game market can be traced all the way back to 1948 with a checkers game built by IBM. But it really took off when Nolan Bushnell created Atari and the success of Pong (his second game as the first one was too hard to play). This is what got the younger generation and people of my age excited about the industry.<\/p>\n
22. 8-bit 8008<\/strong><\/h2>\n1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1972 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Intel releases the 8-bit 8008, soon replaced by the 8080, microprocessor. This was the first true microprocessor which led to the PC revolution.<\/p>\n
23. VisiCalc\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1979 \u2013 USA.\u00a0VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet is created. This sets the stage for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel years later, but it also spurred the need for having PCs on people\u2019s desks.<\/p>\n
24. PostScript language<\/strong><\/h2>\n1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1982 \u2013 USA.\u00a0The idea\u00a0of the PostScript language was\u00a0conceived in 1976 by John Warnock. He joined Xerox PARC, which had developed the first laser printer and had recognized the need for a standard means of defining page images. He left Xerox and founded Adobe Systems in 1982.<\/p>\n
25. World Wide Web\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1989 \u2013 UK.\u00a0The World Wide Web is created\u00a0at the CERN physics laboratory by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Although the paper was published in 1989, it was built in 1990 and the product was launched in 1991.<\/p>\n
26. Mosaic<\/strong><\/h2>\n1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1992 \u2013 USA.\u00a0Although Berners-Lee did build the first web browser, I feel that Mosaic is really the first consumer web browser.<\/p>\n
27. RISC architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n1985 \u2013 UK.\u00a0ARM Holdings, which has a great business model, is the company that made smart phones possible. Building off of the RISC architecture it required fewer transistors, which reduced costs, power and heat. I feel this is the last major invention of the computing world we know today.<\/p>\n
28. Archie<\/strong><\/h2>\n1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n
1993 \u2013\u00a0UK. The first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. But JumpStation by Jonathon Fletcher used a bot to find web pages and to build its index.\u00a0It used a web form as the interface to its query program and was the first engine to combine the three essential features of a web search engine: crawling; indexing; and searching. If it wasn\u2019t for Search the tech boom we have all experienced would have not had the same velocity.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to take a look at this in 20 years\u2019 time and see what gets added to the list.<\/p>\n
Ian Thornton-Trump, CSA+, CD, CEH, CNDA, CPM, BA is CTO at\u00a0Octopi Managed Services Inc<\/a>. Ian is an ITIL certified Information Technology (IT) consultant with more than 20 years of experience in IT security and information technology. He enjoys and maintains a strong commitment to the security community. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n