History of Computing, abbreviated:
1958: LISP!
1980: We can program anything in BASIC, and it runs with minor changes on every computer!
1985: We rewrite everything in ASM or C for every computer, so now IBM wins because we're so fucking tired after shipping once.
1995: We could write once, run anywhere in JAVA!
Microsoft: OH FUCK NO.
2010: We can write once, run anywhere in Javascript!
2020: Global warming reaches unsurvivable levels, NOT coincidentally.
2030: Post-apoc savages discover BASIC.
This is a nice format.
Doing it exclusively from memory.
<1950: People doing mathematics
1950: Computers! (but you need to know hardware)
1955: FIRST REALLY OLD LANGUAGES IN ALLCAPS
1960: Everything is IBM. Also computers are still expensive.
1965: Cambrian explosion of programming language paradigms
1970: Unix! We can write OSs in high-level languages!
1980: I wonder what kinds of weirdos would buy computers for their homes
1985: Lots of them, turns out, also the biggest OS companies have just been founded!
1990: What if we plugged this wire in this machine and also over there
1995: The answer: porn.
2000: …and apparently also bad programming languages.
2005: Okay this amount JavaScript isn't *quite* enough, so let's make moar
2010: I SAID MOAR
2015: AND ALSO ON THE SERVER
2020: You 'member neural networks? Yeah, they fly now
2025: Uh oh
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