a Yourlist ranking · the crowd decides the order
From punch cards to prompts.
What counts: Seeded with approximate figures where shown — the crowd's votes decide the order.
The ENIAC
Era: 1945
added by IJR
The transistor
Era: 1947
added by IJR
The personal computer
Era: 1970s
added by IJR
UNIX
Era: 1969
added by IJR
The World Wide Web
Era: 1989
added by IJR
Linux
Era: 1991
added by IJR
The smartphone
Era: 2007
added by IJR
The transformer paper
Era: 2017
added by IJR
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The crowd is sleeping on the bottom half of this list.
Exactly the kind of argument the internet was built for.
Voted — and the gap between #1 and #2 should be bigger.
This order is closer to right than any editor would've gotten.