Interesting side note: Alan Kay challenged the Stack Overflow community several months back asking for "Significant new inventions in computing since 1980" (htt

Interesting side note: Alan Kay challenged the Stack Overflow community several months back asking for "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...).