Seaman's Log
Big Ideas & Deep Thoughts
by Mark Seaman
Technology Innovations have profoundly shaped my life. These are the tech products that had the largest impact on my daily life.
Technical innovation has been at the very heart of my career. I have been able to play a key role in many of the exciting breakthroughs, from Personal Computers to Agile Software to Cloud Computing.
I've worked as a Software Developer, Architect, Entrepreneur, College Professor, and Writer. Each of these professions took me deeper into understanding how technology affects our lives. The impact can be both positive or negative depending on how it is used.
1939: Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett-Packard
1944: ENIAC (fills a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes)
1969 - Bell Labs creates UNIX
1970 - DEC PDP 8/F introduced
1971 - Floppy disk invented
1975 - Used the DEC PDP 8/F at NAU
1977 - Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 introduced
1978: HP3000 installed in the Carter White House
1979 - WordStar - word processing software
1980 - Learned PASCAL, and Wire wrap prototyping
1981 - IBM PC Acorn is introduced
1981 - Join HP
1983 - CD ROM introduced
1984 - Apple Macintosh, Common Lisp
1985 - Microsoft announces Windows 1.0
1985 - C++ is introduced
1989 - HP Softbench - software CAD, Tesseract
1990 - HTML created, Python 1
1991 - Apple Powerbook introduced
1993 - Apple Newton
1995 - Windows 95, DVD, Java 1.0, Netscape, JavaScript, IE 1.0
1996 - Google founded on Search Engine technology, Palm Pilot
1998 - Apple iMac
1999 - WiFi
2000 - First camera phone, USB flash drive, Python 2
2001 - Mac OS X, Windows XP, iPod, Agile Manifesto
2003 - iTunes, Blu-Ray, MySpace
2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Facebook
2005 - YouTube
2006 - One Laptop per Child, AWS
2007 - iPhone, Kindle, Dropbox
2008 - Macbook Air (ultra notebook), Android 1.0 Phone
2009 - Windows 7, Python 3
2010 - iPad
2011 - Chromebook, Internet of Things
2012 - Facebook hits a billion users, Raspberry Pi
2015 - Windows 10
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