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Fortran     1957   Formula Translation
Lisp        1958   USA; CL 1984, Elisp 1985
Cobol       1959   Common business-oriented language
Algol 60    1960   Algorithmic Language; all machine independent
APL         1964   A Programming Language; Ken Iverson
Multics     1965   developed, MIT; released in 1969
BCPL        1967   Martin Richards; UNIX away from assembly language
B           1969   Thompson; same purpose as BCPL; but no types!
UNIX        1969   developed; manual released 1971, outside Bell 1973
Pascal      1970   Niklaus Wirth
sh          1971   Ken Thompson
C           1972   Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
ML          1973   Meta Language, "Lisp with types"
SQL         1974
Emacs       1976
FP          1977   Functional Programming, John Backus
sh          1977   Bourne
C, K&R      1978   Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, "K&R C"
Ada         1980   unifying attempt all US military software
C, K&R2     1982   2nd revision of K&R standard
C++         1983   "C with classes"
GNU         1983   Richard Stallman, MIT
ksh         1983   KornShell, David Korn, Bell Labs
Word        1983
LaTeX       1985
POSIX       1985   Portable Operating System Interface, IEEE-IX; rms
Excel       1987
Perl        1987
bash        1989
C, ANSI     1989   ANSI-C
FL          1989   Function Level, John Backus
Windows     1989
Haskell     1990   neurotic, side-effect free functional programming
J           1990
SML         1990   Standard Meta Language
zsh         1990
GSM         1991   2G, "groupe spécial mobile"
Linux       1991
Python      1991
SMS         1992   1st sent message; short message service; 160 chars
CGI         1993
PDF         1993
GeoCities   1994
Netscape    1994
PlayStation 1994   in Japan, in Europe 1995; "PSX"
Altavista   1995
Apache      1995
Java        1995
mIRC        1995   Khaled Mardam-Bey
MySQL       1995   Swedish female name My + "seek well"
PHP         1995
HOMM2       1996   Heroes of Might and Magic 2
ICQ         1996   Israel; "I Seek You" pun
FF7         1997   Final Fantasy 7
StarCraft   1998
C, 99       1999   C99, mostly concerned with backward compatibility
Firefox     2002
MySpace     2003
Facebook    2004   Mark Zuckerberg