IBM         1911 International Business Machines 1924. Big Blue
Fortran     1957 Formula Translation
Lisp        1958 USA. CL 1984, Elisp 1985. List Processor/Processing
Cobol       1959 Common business-oriented language
Algol-60    1960 Algorithmic Language, machine independent
APL         1964 A Programming Language, Ken Iverson
Multics     1965 MIT, released in 1969
BCPL        1967 Martin Richards. purpose a UNIX not in assembly language
Logo        1967 educational, influenced by Lisp (Greek "logos" = thought)
GIS         1968 Geographic Information System. Roger Tomlinson
B           1969 Ken Thompson. same purpose as BCPL, still no types
UNIX        1969 manual 1971; outside Bell 1973
Pascal      1970 Niklaus Wirth
sh          1971 Ken Thompson
C           1972 Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
Prolog      1972 France, Alain Colmerauer, logic/AI programming
ML          1973 Meta Language, functional "Lisp with types"
SQL         1974 Seek Well, based on relational algebra
CPS         1975 continuation-passing style, coined in "AI Memo 349"
Emacs       1976 Editor MACroS
AWK         1977 Aho-Weinberger-Kernighan text processing/extraction
BSD         1977 Berkeley Software Distribution. University of California
FP          1977 Functional Programming, John Backus
sh          1977 Bourne
K&R-C       1978 Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie, "K&R C"
TeX         1978 tau, epsilon, and chi - art/craft. Donald Knuth
Ada         1980 US military software unifying attempt
USENET      1980
SunOS       1982 UNIX system by Sun, now marketed as Solaris
K&R2        1982 2nd revision of K&R
SMTP        1982 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. RFC 821, 5321 (2008)
C++         1983 "C with classes", Bjarne Stroustrup
GNU         1983 GNU is not UNIX. Richard Stallman, MIT
ksh         1983 KornShell, David Korn, Bell Labs
Word        1983
POP         1984 Post Office Protocol, POP1 RFC 918
FSF         1985 Free Software Foundation
LaTeX       1985 Leslie Lamport
POSIX       1985 Portable Operating System Interface, IEEE-IX. rms
Erlang      1986 Ericsson, concurrency
Tetris      1986 Alexey Pajitnov, USSR Academy of Science
Excel       1987
GIF         1987 Graphics Interchange Format. Steve Wilhite
NetHack     1987 rogue-like D&D. based on Rogue (1980) and Hack (1982)
Perl        1987 Larry Wall. Unix scripting language
IRC         1988 Internet Relay Chat. Jarkko Oikarinen, Finland
POP3        1988 POP3: RFC 1081 and 1939
ANSI-C      1989 ANSI-C
bash        1989 GNU Bash, Brian Fox. Bourne Again Shell
dash        1989 Debian Almquist shell. Kenneth Almquist. fast
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 shell with many features
Gopher      1991 IP network protocol, yielded to HTTP
GSM         1991 AKA 2G, "groupe spécial mobile"
Linux       1991
Python      1991 interpreted, OO. significant whitespace/off-side rule
SIM         1991 Subscriber Identity Module. Germany/Finland
SMS         1992 Short Message Service, 160 chars
CGI         1993
Solaris     1993 the new name for SunOS after SunOS 4 (?)
Debian      1993 Ian Murdock (+ Debra Lynn = Debian) the Linux distro's distro
Lua         1993 Brazil. Portuguese, Moon. extension/embedded
PDF         1993 Portable Document Format. Adobe. based on PostScript
GeoCities   1994
Marathon    1994 Bungie. Apple Macintosh
Netscape    1994
PlayStation 1994 Japan, 1995 in Europe. AKA the PSX. Sony
URL         1994 Uniform Resource Locator: protocol, hostname, file
Altavista   1995
Apache      1995 Apache HTTP Server
Gnus        1995 Emacs Gnus (Emacs 19.30). Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Java        1995
JavaScript  1995 _not_ shabby-construction, web-programming with a C++ syntax
mIRC        1995 Khaled Mardam-Bey
MySQL       1995 Swedish female name My
PHP         1995 Personal Home Page (or PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)
WC2         1995 Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness. Blizzard
HOMM2       1996 Heroes of Might and Magic 2
ICQ         1996 "I Seek You". Israel
OpenBSD     1996 Theo de Raadt's "secure by default" NetBSD fork
Tamagotchi  1996 Akihiro Yokoi, Japan. handheld digital pet toy
USB         1996 Universal Serial Bus
WC2-BtDP    1996 Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal
Fallout     1997
FF7         1997 Final Fantasy 7, Square, Japan
StarCraft   1998
Ajax        1999 client side asynchronous web
Bluetooth   1999
C99         1999 backward compatibility
C#          2000 C for sharp programmers
GameCube    2001
iPod        2001 399 USD
Firefox     2002
HDMI        2002 High-Definition Multimedia Interface
DotA        2003 Defense of the Ancients, mod for WarCraft 3. ventrilo
MySpace     2003
cwm         2004 calm window manager, stacking WM for X. Marius Aamodt Eriksen
Facebook    2004 Mark Zuckerberg
git         2005 Linus Torvalds
Xbox-360    2005
Killer7     2005 Goichi Suda game with a cult appeal
iPhone      2007 500 USD, the world's most expensive phone 2007
netbook     2007 small, lightweight, legacy-free, inexpensive laptop
systemd     2010 unified Linux system manager. Lennart Poettering
ChromeOS    2011 everything in the browser OS. Google, proprietary
Transistor  2014 RPG by Supergiant. also semiconductor, 1947, USA
Discord     2015 proprietary, freeware IM/VoIP client