Cosmic shifts
If you were around any of the years in this chronology you probably didn’t notice—I didn’t—the instant effect of the following:
1944—first automatic, general purpose digital computer;
1951—first commercial use of computer, Univac;
1954—first practical silicon transistors;
1959—Texas Instruments invents Microchip;
1964—IBM sets up the first big operating system, OS/360;
1969—first commercial on-line service, Compuserve;
1969—beginnings of the Internet, ARPA-NET;
1975—Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen;