Top 10 IT Products in 40 Years

    Over the course of 40 years, thousands of IT products have appeared - many of them have had a huge impact on professionals in this field, and they are certainly remembered. But only a few products really changed IT and the process of doing the work of IT people and users of different stripes. ComputerWorld has compiled a list of ten IT products that have changed everything!

    IBM System / 370 : In 1964, with its System / 360 mainframe, IBM promised that customers would not have to rewrite their software when they purchased the next version of the machine - it would be compatible. It was a revolutionary idea. In 1971, System / 370 reaffirmed the promise and decided the fate of rival “mainframe” mainframes.
    Ethernet: This technology was developed by Xerox PARC in 1973, and the specification of the standard came out in 1980. Ethernet won the competition from token ring and ARCNET, after which it became the dominant standard for communication between personal computers and servers.

    IBM personal computer : In 1981, the first personal computer with an open architecture was released, which allowed users to build a computer on their own. Everyone liked it so much that no one would refuse it.

    Apple Macintosh : In 1984, Mac showed users the ideal of a friendly computer. The result: a mouse, a graphical interface, a "hot" connection of peripheral devices and a fake from Microsoft, called Windows.

    SAP R / 3: Remember when the data processing department made its own financial accounting software? Since 1992, SAP AG has eliminated the need to support all of this code.

    Salesforce.com : Software as a service has been very successful. If SAP was offered to buy, instead of doing, Salesforce.com in 1999 offered to rent.

    Linux : And if Salesforce.com needs to be rented, then Linux is free. But more importantly, in 1991, Linux showed that the bulk of the IT infrastructure can be developed by a large group of programmers in different parts of the world.

    Netscape navigator: This is not the first popular browser - before that was the NCSA Mosaic. But when the creator of Mosaic, Mark Andressen, added cookies in 1994, Netscape turned the Web into a global market.

    Dynamic RAM : It was invented by IBM, but Intel sold the first commercial DRAMs in 1970. Within two years, DRAM began to sell better than magnetic core memory used since the 1950s. And unlike memory on magnetic cores, DRAM obeyed Moore's law: Over time, it will become cheaper and spread.


    Blackberry: A mobile phone allows users to stay in touch, but since 1999, with Research In Motion's BlackBerry phone, users have gained constant access to their email - the era of highly qualified specialists who actively use computer and digital technologies in their work has come.

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