Discussion on: What software projects made you "wow" 🤯

[James McPherson]

In no particular order:

• the Sun 3/80 with PC coprocessor card
• Connection Machine CM5
• Linux (and Bill + Lyn Jollitz' articles on their port of Unix to the 386)
• DTrace
• ZFS
• Netscape Navigator
• nntp and rn
• irc
• VS Code
• Apple's FaceTime and Find My Friends
• XVM, KVM, and containerization
• Python

[Phil Ashby]

Triggered :) ..and I'll throw in:

• Catacomb 3-D, Doom and Quake - hat tip to John Carmack & the iD team!
• Build engine - Ken Silverman, I rendered my own home in it!
• Everything here! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationa...
• Lots of demoscene entries, but this especially: youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y
• Renderman - Pixar
• Worldwide LHC Computing Grid: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_LH...

..the last two simply because of the insane volumes of data.