Posted on 08/15/2006 9:31:36 PM PDT by BillF
Microsoft Office Pro. I know people dont like MS, but this program is really pretty good..
Pong.
The best software ever created is Photoshop. Simply amazing...
I checked the replies, and nobody mentioned the Bible Code.
I guess I'm as freaky as several have told me lately.
Mosaic 1.0 was pretty cool.
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I liked ver3.3 a lot and also 5.0. 5.0 was surprisingly close to flawless for an x.0 version.
I would have included DOS and the software behind the Internet, initially developed by DARPA. Good software is about communication - how you can compile a list of that sort and barely even mention the Internet is beyond me.
Since Colossus was hardwired, it wasn't software at all, it was hardware.
To my knowledge the greatest piece of software ever written was AppleWorks, which I believe introduced the concept of the markup language which made the Web possible.
Turbo Pascal
I love Firefox but I really can't get it to be very stable. The fixes are usually quite easy but I've lost profiles a dozen times, lost my custom toolbar a few times, and my bookmarks (which I now backup periodically). Yeah they are all pretty easy to recover but it's still an annoyance. But IMHO the greatest software ever written has yet to be written - it would be an OS that refuses to crash.
There is no reason for Windows, for example, to crash. At least, no reason in theory. Obviously there are unknowable ways in which to crash windows through conflicts of some kind or another - but it should not ever happen. It should have, like a rule #1 - don't crash. Just recognize the conflict before it happens, and then shut down one or the other software, addon, driver that is in conflict. There is nothing more frustrating than losing what you have been workin///////////////////ÞÖß÷ßßÞéþÞŽé
>>>>how you can compile a list of that sort and barely even mention the Internet is beyond me.
Because then it would be pointed out that Gates didn't write it.
Microsoft bought Visual Basic from someone else. The core of .Net is the Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Can Reuters use a spreadsheet to fabricate phony images to feed disinformation to millions of news consumers?
Wait a minute - aren't you the guy who posts those incredible sports images on this site, with perfect depth of field on the ball?
Bump, Bttt, Bookmark.
The old Quattro Pro spreadsheet. It took the utilitarianism of Lotus 1-2-3 and made it user-friendly back in the late 80's to early 90's, paving the way for MS Excel. I literally wouldn't have graduated from college without Quattro Pro.
They got my picks of Google, Mosaic, and Unix. I'd add the TCP/IP protocol as well; it's scaled rather well from a few research labs to the whole world. Java should not be on the list; it's a decent language and platform but not earthshaking technically; Smalltalk was doing similar things 30 years ago. As a *marketing* achievement Java is brilliant.
Gnu emacs, gcc, g++, etc.
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