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| x MacDraw |
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Claris | Vector based drawing application | 1984 |
MacDraw was a vector based drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite. MacDraw was useful for drawing...
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| Apple Inc. | |||||
| x Java |
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James Gosling | Programming language | 1995 |
Java refers to a number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment. Java is used in a wide variety of...
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| Brendon Wilson | |||||
| x Smalltalk |
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Xerox PARC | Programming language |
Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for...
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| Alan Kay | |||||
| Dan Ingalls | |||||
| Ted Kaehler | |||||
| Adele Goldberg | |||||
| x Semantic MediaWiki |
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Markus Krötzsch | Wiki | Sep 28, 2005 |
The
Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to the MediaWiki software (which
also runs Wikipedia), which allows every user to make information more
accessible to computer programs (including the ask query and the triple
search available in SMW itself),...
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| Denny Vrandečić | Knowledge Management System | ||||
| Wikimedia Foundation | |||||
| x Apple Remote Desktop | Apple Inc. | Mar 14, 2002 |
Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is a Macintosh application produced by Apple Inc., first released on March 14, 2002, that replaced a similar product called Apple Network Assistant. Aimed at computer administrators responsible for large numbers of...
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| x StatCVS | Richard Cyganiak | Open source | Aug 9, 2002 |
StatCVS is an open source program written in Java that generates graphical reports about CVS modules. It reveals, for example, which developer has made the most check-ins to the repository, and plots the development of the lines of code (LOC) of the...
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| x Microsoft Word |
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Microsoft | Word processor | 1983 |
Microsoft Word is Microsoft's word processing software. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), the Apple Macintosh...
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| x MySQL |
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MySQL AB | Database management system | May 23, 1995 |
MySQL (pronounced /maɪˌɛskjuːˈɛl/ My S Q L, not "My sequel" /maɪˈsiːkwəl/) is a relational database management system (RDBMS) which has more than 6 million installations. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of...
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| Sun Microsystems | Database | ||||
| Ad.WRIGHT Communications Pte Ltd | Relational database management system | ||||
| x Microsoft Excel |
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Microsoft | Spreadsheet |
Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet-application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called...
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| x Beautiful Soup |
From the project site: "Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick
turnaround projects like screen-scraping."
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| x onNYTurf Syndicated Map |
This is an embeddable widget using of the Google Maps API to display New York Subway and PATH information.
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| x Adobe Flash |
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Adobe Systems | Multimedia | Nov 1996 |
Adobe Flash (previously called Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding...
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| Macromedia | |||||
| x Google Maps API | Web application |
The Google Maps API allows developers to embed dynamic, draggable maps in their web applications. It's free for sites that are freely available to the public, and there's an enterprise version for private sites.
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| x geocoder.us | |||||
| x VIA Repository | |||||
| x PostgreSQL |
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PostgreSQL Global Development Group | Relational database management system |
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). It is released under a BSD-style license and is thus free software. As with many other open-source programs, PostgreSQL is not controlled by any single company, but has a global...
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| Database | |||||
| x PostGIS |
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Geographic Information System |
PostGIS (/post'-jis/) is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium. As such,...
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| x PHP |
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Ad.WRIGHT Communications Pte Ltd | Programming language | 1994 |
PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.
While PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf...
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| x Yahoo! Maps API | |||||
| x Graphviz |
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Graphviz (short for Graph Visualization Software) is a package of open source tools initiated by AT&T; Research Labs for drawing graphs specified in DOT language scripts. It also provides libraries for software applications to use the tools....
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| x Apache | |||||
| x Debian GNU/Linux |
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Debian (pronounced /ˈdɛbiən/) is a computer operating system composed of free and open source software. The primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, is a popular and influential Linux distribution. It is distributed with access to repositories containing...
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| x mod python |
mod_python is an Apache HTTP Server module that integrates the Python programming language into the Apache server. It is intended to replace Common Gateway Interface (CGI) as a method of executing Python scripts on a web server. The promised...
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| x psychopg | |||||
| x Mobile MUSE Deployment Platform |
The Mobile MUSE MCS Deployment Platform provides a set of services that
mobile content and application developers can use in developing and
prototyping their services.
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| x OpenCVS | OpenBSD | Concurrent Versions System |
OpenCVS is a BSD-licensed, from-scratch re-implementation of the popular Concurrent Versioning System, developed as a part of the OpenBSD project. It aims to be fully compatible with the existing GNU CVS implementation, but be more correct...
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| Niall O'Higgins | Revision control | ||||
| x Microsoft Bob |
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Microsoft |
Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product, released in March 1995, which provided a new, nontechnical interface to desktop computing operations. Despite its ambitious nature, Bob was one of Microsoft's more visible product failures. Microsoft's...
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| x Helix project | Digital Media Framework |
Helix is a project to produce software that can play audio and video media in various formats, aid in producing such media, and serve them over a network. It is intended as a largely free and open source digital media framework that runs on numerous...
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| x Django web framework |
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Adrian Holovaty | Web application framework | Jul 15, 2005 |
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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| Simon Willison | Object-relational Mapper | ||||
| Jacob Kaplan-Moss | |||||
| x Ingres | Database management system |
Ingres (pronounced /iŋ-'grεs/) is a commercially supported, open-source SQL relational database management system intended to support large commercial and government applications. Ingres is fully open source with a growing global community of...
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| x Oracle database | Oracle Corporation | Relational database management system |
The Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) consists of a relational database management system (RDBMS) produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. As of 2009, Oracle remains a major presence in database computing....
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| x C shell |
The C shell (csh) is a Unix shell developed by Bill Joy for the BSD Unix system. It was originally derived from the 6th Edition Unix /bin/sh (which was the Thompson shell), the predecessor of the Bourne shell. Its syntax is modeled after the C...
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| x XPilot |
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XPilot is a multiplayer Asteroids-like computer game. It is open source and runs on most platforms. Its graphics are 2-D, but it is an example of an early third-person shooter.
The graphics, although they have been improved over time, still resemble...
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| x Maple |
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Computer algebra system |
Maple is a general-purpose commercial computer algebra system. It was first developed in 1980 by the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Since 1988, it has been developed and sold commercially by...
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| x Mathematica |
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Wolfram Research | Mathematics | 1988 |
Mathematica is a general computing environment, organizing many algorithmic, visualization, and user interface capabilities within a document-like user interface paradigm. It was originally conceived by Stephen Wolfram, developed by a team of...
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| Stephen Wolfram | Computer algebra system | ||||
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| x IBM DB2 |
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IBM | Relational database management system | 1983 |
DB2 is one of IBM's families of relational database management system (RDBMS) software products within IBM's broader Information Management Software line. Although there are different "editions" and "versions" of DB2, which run on devices ranging...
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| Database | |||||
| x Pidgin |
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Sean Egan | Instant messaging | 1999 |
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple. Libpurple has support for many commonly used instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to log into various different services from...
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| x MSN Messenger |
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Microsoft | Instant messaging |
MSN Messenger, now called Windows Live Messenger, is a freeware instant messaging client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft in 1999 to 2005 and in 2007 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (except Windows Vista),...
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| x AOL Instant Messenger |
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AOL | Instant messaging |
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May...
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| x Perl |
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Larry Wall | Programming language | Dec 18, 1987 |
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general purpose Unix scripting language to make...
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| x Ruby |
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Yukihiro Matsumoto | Programming language | 1995 |
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by...
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| x Expensive Typewriter |
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L. Peter Deutsch | Text editor |
Expensive Typewriter was a text editing program that ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer that had been recently delivered at MIT. Since it could drive a IBM Selectric typewriter (a letter-quality printer), it was arguably the first word processing program...
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| Steve Piner | |||||
| x Appointments Online |
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Informatica Internet Services Ltd | Web application | May 2007 |
Appointments Online will make it easy for your
patients to manage their clinical appointments at your
practice themselves. We will provide this software as a
service on our own managed internet servers. Appointments
...
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| x Bersirc | Jamie Frater |
Bersirc is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Microsoft Windows operating system (Linux and Mac OS X operating systems are in development). It uses the Lucid toolkit, which aims to provide an interface to native windowing systems and...
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| x SCUMM |
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Aric Wilmunder | Game engine | 1987 |
Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion (SCUMM) is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion.
It is somewhere between a game engine and a...
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| Ron Gilbert | |||||
| x GrimE | Bret Mogilefsky |
GrimE (Grim Engine) is an adventure game engine, created by Bret Mogilefsky at LucasArts using the free software scripting language Lua. It was first used for Grim Fandango.
Partly based on the Sith engine, GrimE was the successor to SCUMM,...
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| x Ruby on Rails |
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David Heinemeier Hansson | Web application framework | 2004 |
Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology which is used by web developers for rapid development....
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| x Mozilla Firefox |
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Mozilla Foundation | Web browser | Sep 23, 2002 |
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 22.51% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of May 2009, making it the second most popular...
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| x Internet Explorer |
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Microsoft | Web browser | Aug 1995 |
Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer; abbreviated to MSIE or, more commonly, IE), is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems...
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| x Opera |
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Opera Software | Web browser | 1994 |
Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. Opera handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading...
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| x Safari |
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Apple Inc. | Web browser | Jan 7, 2003 |
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Apple has also made Safari the...
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| x Second Life Client | |||||
| x Mosaic |
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National Center for Supercomputing Applications | Web browser | 1993 |
Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, Usenet, and Gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all...
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| x Lynx |
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Web browser |
Lynx is a free open-source, text-only Web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. Supported protocols are Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP.
Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys,...
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| x Amaya |
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World Wide Web Consortium | Web browser |
Amaya is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), a French national research institution, and later...
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| WYSIWYG HTML Editor | |||||
| HTML editor | |||||
| x Galeon |
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Web browser |
Galeon is a web browser for GNOME based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine. Galeon’s self-declared mission was to deliver “the web and only the web.”
At the time of Galeon’s creation, the most popular web browsers, including Netscape, Mozilla, and...
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| x K-Meleon |
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Web browser |
K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows API to create the user interface (instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XUL layer), and as a...
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| x Camino |
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Web browser |
Camino (from the Spanish word camino meaning "way", "path" or "road") is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X operating system. In place of an XUL-based user...
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| x Flock |
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Web browser | 2005 |
Flock is The Social Web Browser. It’s the browser, evolved for people.
It is free to download and use. Flock simplifies and extends the use of
social and web-based applications to enable the richest user experience
possible across information...
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| x Epiphany |
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Web browser |
Epiphany is a Web browser for the GNOME graphical computing desktop. It is also available for Mac OS X and is a descendant of Galeon.
Epiphany was developed from Galeon by Marco Pesenti Gritti (also the initiator of Galeon) with the aim of making a...
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