To be honest I’m quite surprised it’s already 20 years old. The first time I ever encountered SQLite was when poking through what made the very first iPhone ti

To be honest I’m quite surprised it’s already 20 years old. The first time I ever encountered SQLite was when poking through what made the very first iPhone tick, “way back” in 2007 (a whopping 13 years ago). Before then it had never occurred to me that one might use a database-as-an-executable as the generic information storage back-end for pretty much any application... I thought of SQL and databases as enterprise-type deployments and thought of applications as having custom data formats. Looking back, Wikipedia tells me that Apple had made CoreData available with Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’, released in mid-2005, so I wasn’t exactly up-to-date at the time... but still, it feels like a remarkably modern development. And an impressive one in any timeframe. EDIT: Grammar.