History of Computer Software

The first high level programming language fortran was invented by John Backus and IBM.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and HTML or hypertext markup language.

General background information on computer languages including basic - pagemaker - java - fortran - ms-dos - visicalc - windows - computer graphics and more.

In 1983, the Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows software for IBM computers and they almost named it Interface Manager,

The history of Trillian a universal instant messenger software.

In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interraction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe.

Ada Byron Lovelace wrote a scientific paper in 1843 that anticipated the development of computer software artificial intelligence and computer music

Besides being "the" pioneer computer programmer, the co-inventor of COBOL, the grand lady of software, Amazing Grace, and Grandma COBOL, Grace Murray Hopper will be remembered for one of her now famous sayings, which is "It's easier to ask forgivenes

The first desktop publishing program was created by Paul Brainard and a company called Aldus.

ASCII is an acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

BASIC (standing for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was written (invented) in 1963, at Dartmouth College, by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas.

Tim Berners-Lee was the primary author of html, assisted by his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Java is a programming language and environment invented by James Gosling in 1994.

Introduced in 1995, JavaScript an object oriented web scripting language has become an international standard allowing web developers the ability to write Dynamic HTML that works on multiple browsers.

John Thompson invented lingo programming used in Macromedia Director and Shockwave.

"Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner." - Dan Bricklin on VisiCalc

Released in 1979 by Micropro International Inc., WordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program produced for microcomputers and the best selling software program of the early eighties.

Interview with Philip Emeagwali about writing software for supercomputers.

In 1980 IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft to discuss an operating system for a secret new home computer.