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Top 10 technologies of the past 45 years - Computerworld
this one caught my eye.
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Unix
Until the invention of Unix in 1969 the only way to run a computer program was to convert it to punchcards and give them to MIS, which fed them to a mainframe. Unix allowed anyone with a few IT skills to write software for any reason at all -- giving rise to line-of-business applications and large-scale ERP, CRM and SCP systems before everything eventually moved to the cloud and morphed into Salesforce.com, Facebook and World of Warcraft.
this one caught my eye.
quoted:
Unix
Until the invention of Unix in 1969 the only way to run a computer program was to convert it to punchcards and give them to MIS, which fed them to a mainframe. Unix allowed anyone with a few IT skills to write software for any reason at all -- giving rise to line-of-business applications and large-scale ERP, CRM and SCP systems before everything eventually moved to the cloud and morphed into Salesforce.com, Facebook and World of Warcraft.
