Favorite computer tech innovation?

[CharmyBee]

I'm tied between:

3D acceleration (1995, Rendition)

and

USB ports and devices (1997)


Both are like the best innovations to computers ever.

[Firestem4]

The Internet

[Giant Speck]

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[koshatnik]

Email. How the hell did offices function before email?

[Bölvaður]

The Internet
we can live without usb if we have internet connection... technically....

[StOoZ]

hmmm too much to list here...so i'll go with everything related to computers.:popcorn:

[Namtabmai]

RISC architecture, it is gonna change everything.

[jomiolto]

Vim.

[pparks1]

Virtual machine technology. Long gone are the old days of setting up a lab of junk computers and trying to figure something out. Simply stand up a virtual machine and test away.

[Sealbhach]

Mouse driven-point and-click interface.


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[calrogman]

Linux. Not only it is brilliant, it was also incredibly unlikely, its entire existence is down to luck.

[jacob01]

microprocessors

[HavocXphere]

Favourite or most important?

I'd probably go with networking or digital music (mp3s etc) for favourite. Most important is clearly the microprocessor.

[hardyn]

Wasn't that a line from 1996's Hackers?


RISC architecture, it is gonna change everything.

[Daveski]

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Didn't the Archimedes have that way-back-when?

USB is exceptionally good though, but Apple had the desktop-bus yonks ago. But my favourite innovation has to be networking.