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Technology timeline
Sometimes it is useful to look at history, either to see how things improved (or not so), or when a tech or idea first popped up. This is an attempt to make a timeline of the most important advances in technology for historical interest.
Computers, information processing and machine intelligence
| 1968 | “SHRDLU”, an early English language parsing system connected to a physical simulator (playground) aka “block world”, started on MIT (by Terry Winograd) |
| 1969 | ARPANET started |
| 1973 | First cell phone |
| 1983 | C++ invented by Bjarne Stroustrup |
| 1990 | First web browser written at CERN; first HTML standard was made a year before by Tim Berners-Lee |
| 1991 | First public post about Linux (that time, a small hobby OS by Linus Torvalds) |
| 1992 | JPEG algorithm discovered |
| 1995 | Javascript invented by Brendan Eich |
| 1997 | IBM “Deep Blue” computer defeats Gary Kasparov in chess |
| 2001 | Wikipedia launched |
| 2003 | WiFi 802.11g standard published (up to 54 Mbps) |
| 2004 | Facebook launched |
| 2005 | 5 autonomous cars finished the DARPA challenge of driving through a desert (year before, none did) |
| 2009 | Stack Exchange launched |
| 2010 | Microsoft Kinect V1 produced (face and gesture recognition, voice recognition and 3D image based on twin cameras); an open source driver (paid by Adafruit) allowed many useful hacks |
| 2014 | 14nm CPU die technology (Intel Core M Broadwell, soon followed by desktop CPUs) |
| 2015 | Google TensorFlow published as open source |
| 2015 | Google Photos started by Google (project branched from Google+); its abilities to automatically classify images according to what they show is acclaimed by critics |
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