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Software
¶Adobe Creative Suite
Software bundle (Adobe; encompasses Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and others)
See also: Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
¶Adobe Flash
Software platform (multimedia and animation)
See also: Adobe, Macromedia Director, Lingo
¶Adobe Illustrator
Vector graphics software (Adobe)
See also: Adobe, Altsys, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Creative Suite
¶Adobe InDesign
Desktop publishing software (Adobe; successor to PageMaker)
See also: Adobe, PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Desktop Publishing, Adobe Creative Suite
¶Adobe Photoshop
Image editing software (Adobe; Thomas and John Knoll, 1988)
See also: Adobe, Adobe Creative Suite
¶ARPANET
Precursor network to the internet (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1969)
See also: TCP/IP, Cerf, Vint, Kahn, Bob, Berners-Lee, Tim, When Wizards Stay Up Late
¶BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)
Operating system derived from UNIX
See also: UNIX, Joy, Bill, AT&T Bell Labs, Thompson, Ken, Ritchie, Dennis
¶DOS (Disk Operating System)
Operating system category; includes MS-DOS (Microsoft) and PC-DOS (IBM)
See also: Gates, Bill, Kildall, Gary, Digital Research, IBM
¶ELIZA
Chatbot software (Joseph Weizenbaum, 1966; early natural language processing)
See also: Weizenbaum, Joseph, Computer Power and Human Reason, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Model (LLM)
¶HyperCard
Software (Apple, 1987; created by Bill Atkinson); pioneering hypermedia environment for personal computers
See also: Atkinson, Bill, HyperTalk, Horn, Bruce, Raskin, Jef, Nelson, Ted, Engelbart, Douglas, Lingo
¶Lingo
Programming language (Macromedia Director)
See also: Macromedia Director, HyperTalk, LiveCode
¶Lisp
Programming language (John McCarthy, 1958; foundational to AI research)
See also: McCarthy, John, Lisp machines (concept), Lisp Machines Inc., Symbolics, Python
¶Macromedia Director
Multimedia authoring software (formerly MacroMind Director)
See also: Lingo, Adobe Flash, Macromedia FreeHand
¶Macromedia FreeHand
Vector graphics software (Altsys/Aldus/Macromedia; rival to Illustrator)
See also: Altsys, Aldus Corporation, Adobe Illustrator
¶PageMaker
Desktop publishing software (Aldus, 1985; later Adobe; pioneered desktop publishing on Mac)
See also: Aldus Corporation, Brainerd, Paul, Adobe, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Desktop Publishing
¶QuarkXPress
Desktop publishing software (Quark Inc., 1987; dominant DTP application through the 1990s; largely displaced by Adobe InDesign in the 2000s)
See also: Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, Desktop Publishing
¶Solaris
Operating system (Sun Microsystems; successor to SunOS)
See also: Sun Microsystems, SunOS, Joy, Bill, UNIX
¶SunOS
Operating system (Sun Microsystems)
See also: Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Joy, Bill, UNIX, BSD
¶UNIX
Operating system (Bell Labs, 1969; Thompson and Ritchie)
See also: Thompson, Ken, Ritchie, Dennis, AT&T Bell Labs, BSD, NeXTSTEP, SunOS, Solaris
¶VisiCalc
First commercial spreadsheet (Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, 1979)
See also: Bricklin, Dan, Frankston, Bob, Spreadsheet