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Dev Timeline

Note: Some dates are certainly wrong. Some represent v1.0 while others represent whatever Wikipedia says.

Operating systems

1985 Microsoft Windows
1991 Linux kernel
- coffee
1993 NetBSD
1993 Debian GNU/Linux
1993 FreeBSD
1996 OpenBSD
2001 macOS
2002 Arch Linux
2002 Haiku
2003 NixOS
2003 Fedora Linux
2004 DragonFly BSD
2004 Ubuntu

Browsers

1992 Lynx
1995 Opera
2002 Tor Browser
2004 Firefox
2008 Chromium
2016 Vivaldi
2019 Brave
2021 Nyxt

Programming languages

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

CMS (Content management systems)

2000 Umbraco
2001 Movable Type
2001 Drupal
2002 Apache Roller
2002 MediaWiki
2003 WordPress
2009 dotCMS
2009 Apache Sling
2013 Ghost
2022 Microfeed

Web servers

1995 Apache HTTP server
1995 Microsoft IIS (internet information services)
2003 lighttpd
2004 nginx
2014 OpenBSD httpd
2015 Caddy

HTTPs tunnels

awesome tunneling
2013 ngrok
2018 Cloudflare Tunnel (formerly Argo Tunnel)
- nice

Password managers

2003 KeePass
2016 bitwarden

Databases

SQL

1995 MySQL
1996 PostgreSQL
2000 SQLite
2009 MariaDB

Non SQL databases (Structured storage)

2003 Memcached
2005 Apache CouchDB
2009 MongoDB
2009 Redis
2013 FoundationDB
2016 Clickhouse

Web frameworks

Server side web frameworks

2002 ASP.NET
2004 Ruby on Rails
2005 Wt
2005 Apache Wicket
2005 Django
2006 CodeIgniter
2008 Mojolicious
2010 Yii
2010 Flask
2010 Express
2011 Laravel
2013 LoopBack
2014 Spring Boot
2016 NestJS

Client side web frameworks

2007 jQuery UI
2010 SproutCore
2010 Backbone.js
2010 AngularJS
2010 Knockout.js
2011 EmberJS
2012 Marko
2012 MeteorJS
2013 ReactJS
2014 Vue.js
2016 Svelte
2019 Alpine
2021 Unpoly
2021 Solid

Static site generators

2008 Jekyll
2009 Middleman
2009 Octopress
2010 Hakyll
2010 Pelican
2012 Sculpin
2012 Hexo
2013 Hugo
2014 Metalsmith
2015 Zola
2015 Gatsby (now full stack)
2016 Next.js (now full stack)
2016 Nuxt.js (now full stack)
2017 React-static
2017 Docusaurus
2017 Eleventy (11ty)
2017 Sapper
2018 VuePress
2018 Gridsome
2019 RedwoodJS
2019 Scully
2020 Bridgetown
2020 VitePress

Partial hydration

2020 Elder.js
2021 Slinkity
2022 Astro

Full stack web frameworks (PESPAs: Progressively Enhanced Single Page Apps)

2020 Blitz.js
2021 Remix
2022 Fresh
2022 SvelteKit
2022 SolidStart

No code web frameworks

CSS frameworks

Deployment

2006 Amazon Web Services: AWS EC2
2008 Microsoft Azure: Windows Azure Platform
2008 Google Cloud Platform: GCP App Engine
2011 Digital Ocean
2014 AWS Lambda
2015 Netlify
2015 Vercel (Zeit)
2018 Render
2018 Fly.io
2021 Cloudflare Pages

Object Storage

2010 Ceph
2014 Rclone
2015 SeaweedFS
2016 MinIO
2022 MicroCeph

Misc storage

2010 TrueNAS (previously FreeNAS)
2019 NextCloud

Identity management

Email

SMTP

1998 Postfix
2002 hMailServer
2003 Apache James
2011 Haraka
2013 OpenSMTPD

IMAP

2002 Dovecot

DKIM

2008 DKIMproxy

Spam

2001 Apache SpamAssassin
2003 OpenBSD spamd

Email clients

1995 Mutt
2003 Thunderbird
2007 Alpine

Misc

2000 FFmpeg
2003 Handbrake
2008 Radicale
2013 Calibre
2013 mpv
2015 Pi-hole

AI

1950 Alan Turing publishes Computing Machinery and Intelligence
1997 IBM Deep Blue beats reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov
2011 IBM Watson beats two greatest Jeopardy! champions
2016 Google AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol in Go
2020 OpenAI releases GPT-3
2021 OpenAI releases DALL-E
2022 Google DeepMind releases Gato
2022 Midjourney released
2022 OpenAI releases ChatGPT
2022 OpenAI releases general-purpose speech recognition model Whisper
2023 OpenAI releases GPT-4
- Microsoft Research concludes GPT-4 is an early AGI system

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