This is a trip through the history of programming, featuring all programming tools through the years. A glimpse into the journey that not just the Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) took, but all programmers who worked with them. From the early text based DOS to today's AI agents.
Experience what it was like programming in these historical environments with authentic screencasts of each IDE from their era.
00:11 Turbo Pascal 2.0 (Borland, 1985)
00:42 QuickBASIC 2.0 (Microsoft, 1986)
01:22 Turbo C 1.0 (Borland, 1987)
02:02 Macintosh Programmers' Workshop (Apple, 1988)
03:08 Watcom C (Watcom, 1989)
03:54 Turbo C++ (Borland, 1990)
04:46 Visual Basic 1.0 (Microsoft, 1991)
05:38 Borland C++ 3.1 (Borland, 1992)
05:59 Visual C++ 1.0 (Microsoft, 1993)
06:45 Delphi 1.0 (Borland, 1994)
07:20 Visual Basic 4.0 (Microsoft, 1995)
07:44 Java Workshop 1.0 (Sun Microsystems, 1996)
07:59 Visual Café (Symantec, 1997)
08:41 Visual Basic 6.0 (Microsoft, 1998)
09:29 Dreamweaver 2.0 (Macromedia, 1999)
09:56 Kylix (Borland, 2000)
10:55 Eclipse 1.0 (IBM, 2001)
11:29 Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft, 2002)
12:18 Xcode 1.0 (Apple, 2003)
13:08 Flash MX (Macromedia, 2004)
13:39 IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 (JetBrains, 2005)
14:09 NetBeans 5.5 (Sun Microsystems, 2006)
14:42 Scratch 1.0 (MIT Media Lab, 2007)
15:10 Xcode 3.1 (Apple, 2008)
15:53 PyCharm 1.0 (JetBrains, 2009)
16:24 KDevelop 4 (KDE, 2010)
17:02 Xcode 4 (Apple, 2011)
17:39 Visual Studio 2012 (Microsoft, 2012)
18:22 Android Studio 0.1 (Google, 2013)
19:08 Atom (Github, 2014)
19:34 Visual Studio Code (Microsoft, 2015)
20:05 Cloud9 (Amazon, 2016)
20:26 PlatformIO 1.1 (PlatformIO Labs, 2017)
20:44 Arduino 1.8 (Arduino, 2018)
21:07 Colab (Google, 2019)
21:56 DevEco Studio (Huawei, 2020)
22:34 Copilot (Github, 2021)
23:17 Codeium (Extrafunction, 2022)
23:49 Cursor (Anysphere, 2023)
24:07 RustRover (JetBrains, 2024)
24:21 Copilot Agents (Github, 2025)
24:39 Final credit to the founding fathers of programming