[cratermoon]

It's funny, but looking back at the computer technologies that have been truly transformative since the 60s, it's hard to find anything that was considered sexy or interesting or had much hype. Heck, even the transistor, invented around 80 years ago now, was considered so uninteresting that Bell Labs gave it away. The semiconductor IC came out of TI in 1958, and again, it hardly made waves.