This is a really excellent list. It includes a lot of things that are easy to forget due to how much we've progressed since then but were absolutely hugely impa

This is a really excellent list. It includes a lot of things that are easy to forget due to how much we've progressed since then but were absolutely hugely impactful in their day. What I find fascinating is the degree to which we've come to pretty much master this stuff. A modern smartphone includes analogs of nearly every single chip in the list or depends on some core element of the functionality in some way.