1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization. - Greg GuitarBuster

1. Java: James Gosling 2. C: Dennis Ritchie 3. C++: Bjarne Stroustrup 4. Python: Guido van Rossum 5. PHP: Rasmus Lerdorf 6. Perl: Larry Wall 7. JavaScript: Brendan Eich 8. Ruby: Yukihiro Matsumoto 9. Lisp: John McCarthy 10. Pascal: Niklaus Wirth - Sean McBride

Marked up in NML: {c; *category; *instance; *property; *value} - Sean McBride

1. c; programming language; Java; creator; James Gosling 2. c; programming language; C; creator; Dennis Ritchie 3. c; programming language; C++; creator; Bjarne Stroustrup 4. c; programming language; Python; creator; Guido van Rossum 5. c; programming language; PHP; creator; Rasmus Lerdorf 6. c; programming language; Perl; creator; Larry Wall 7. c; programming language; JavaScript; creator; Brendan Eich 8. c; programming language; Ruby; creator; Yukihiro Matsumoto 9. c; programming language; Lisp; creator; John McCarthy 10. c; programming language; Pascal; creator; Niklaus Wirth - Sean McBride