General Awareness ยท History
Historical Dates and Firsts
2,390 Questions
Historical dates and firsts questions test your memory of significant global milestones in sports, science, technology, and literature. These factual questions appear regularly in SSC, banking, and state PSC general awareness papers. Use these questions to quickly memorize important historical events and their exact years.
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Historical Dates and Firsts Questions
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LISP was invented in 1958 by John McCarthy at MIT. It's one of the oldest high-level programming languages still in use today, designed for artificial intelligence research.
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FACT (Fully Automated Compiling Technique) was invented in 1959 by Roy Nutt at IBM. It was an early programming language for business applications.
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COBOL was invented in 1959 by a committee led by Grace Hopper. It was designed for business, finance, and administrative systems.
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APL (A Programming Language) was designed by Kenneth E. Iverson and was officially introduced with the publication of his book of the same name in 1962.
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Simula was invented in 1962 by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard at the Norwegian Computing Center. It was the first language to introduce object-oriented programming concepts.
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BASIC was invented in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College. It was designed to make programming accessible to beginners and students.
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PL/I was invented in 1964 by IBM. It was designed as a general-purpose language combining features from Fortran, COBOL, and ALGOL for both business and scientific computing.
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Pascal was invented in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. It was designed to teach structured programming and has influenced many later languages.
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Prolog was developed by Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Roussel in 1972, with collaboration from Robert Kowalski. It pioneered logic programming and uses Horn clauses to declare facts and rules.
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ML was designed by Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh in 1973. It was a pioneering functional programming language that introduced polymorphic type inference and pattern matching.
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ANSI Common Lisp standard was published in 1994, providing a standardized specification for the Lisp dialect. Common Lisp itself evolved from earlier Lisp work in the 1980s.
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JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich at Netscape in 1995, originally named Mocha and then LiveScript before becoming JavaScript. It was designed for web browser scripting in just 10 days.
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PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 as 'Personal Home Page' tools. It evolved into a server-side scripting language that powers much of the web, especially through its LAMP stack popularity.
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Rebol was created by Carl Sassenrath in 1997. It was designed as a lightweight, cross-platform messaging language with a simple syntax and powerful data manipulation capabilities.
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The C# programming language was developed by Anders Hejlsberg and his team at Microsoft and was officially announced and released in the year 2000.