Technologies That Still Thrive 25 to 50 Years Later
October 1st 2011 23:07
the test of time, going strong after 25 years -- even 50 in some cases
Cobol: 1960
Virtual memory: 1962
ASCII: 1963
OLTP: 1964
IBM System/360 mainframe: 1964
MOS chip: 1967
C: 1969
Unix: 1969
FTP: 1971
Ethernet: 1973
x86 CPU architecture: 1978
Gnu: 1983
Tape drive: 1984
TCP/IP: 1984
C : 1985
PostScript: 1985
ATA and SCSI: 1986
How many of you know about any of that stuff? not many I suppose, including me, although I know a little, I've all but finished UNI you know.
techno the geek tells ya!
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