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Most important software innovations, 1837 -- http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html#innovations http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html#innovatio... Origins and precursors, 1936 - 1982: Turing, Von Neumann, Shannon, etc. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/cs298.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/cs298.html A Golden Age? 1964 -- 1974 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2059 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2059 Significant new inventions in computing since 1980 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-inventions-in-computing-since-1980 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in... Lisp machines, other language-based machines and OS: Smalltalk, etc. https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/precursors.md https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/precursor...