A brief history of technology
Feb 6, 2021
In rough chronological order. Draw your own conclusions.
- Leather over Fur
- Bronze over Leather
- Horse over Farmers
- Iron over Bronze
- Guns over Iron
- Steam over Sail
- AC over DC
- Cars over Horses
- Cars over Pedestrians
- Tanks over Trenches
- Tubes over Relays
- Transistors over Tubes
- ICs over Transistors
- Calculators over Slide Rules
- CD over LP
- Cassette over 8-Track
- VHS over Betamax
- VHS over Laserdisk
- TCP/IP over ISO/OSI
- RFC822 over X.400
- Ethernet over TokenRing
- The Web over Xanadu
- Modem over X.25
- MP3 over Cassette
- PC over VAX
- HTML over SGML
- HTML over NAPLPS
- HTML over Minitel
- HTTP over FTP
- DVD over VHS
- XML over SGML
- Google over Altavista
- USB over Firewire
- JSON over XML
- REST over SOAP
- BluRay over DVD
- Google over Classifieds
- Twitter over RSS
- Streaming over BluRay
- Facebook over Privacy
- GraphQL over REST
