> version control

/me waves constructively, solidly at `brlcad

Your list looks good until “version control”, for which at least sccs[0] began representing in 1972.

I’m not used to catching `brlcad out at… anything, usually. Thought he might enjoy this “technically correct” (the best kind of correct) note.

Not that the list isn’t impressive enough, and BRL-CAD impressive in its own right. And to think it started as a dare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

BRL-CAD was open-sourced in 2004. MIT Scheme was released as free software in 1986 after being started somewhere near 1979 (which was about the time I started programming in Basic, using the TRS-80 and Apple II). The initial revision of the MIT git repo is dated December 1986--I think it started in RCS. The original license was some variation of the MIT one, which requested that changes be sent back to the team if at all possible, with a request to tell them what the use was. They changed to the GPL around release 7 or 8.

My first language was FORTRAN 66, learned from a book in the library, but on paper only as I had no access to a computer until a couple years later in 1979.