founded Baseball strikes IBM PC introduced 1983 Cal Ripken joins the Orioles Gary Gillette joins SABR ARPANET converts to TCP/IP 1984 Project Scoresheet started PC/AT Macintosh 1989 Retrosheet Total Baseball published 1991 Twentieth anniversary of SABR
Turbo C++ ships 1994 Baseball season ruined by strike Netscape founded 1999 Voros McCracken publishes DIPS on Usenet 2000 Baseball-Reference.com launches NASDAQ peaks at 5,132--the Tech Bubble 2001 Thirtieth anniversary of SABR The bubble bursts 2002 Mitchel Lichtman creates UZR 2004 Boston wins the World Series Google goes public Facebook launches 2010 Giants win the World Series 2011 Fortieth anniversary of SABR Microsoft buys Skype, telephony over IP company Figure 1.
The introduction of Borland's BGI graphics libraries in Turbo Pascal, and later in Turbo C and
Turbo C++, had made graphics programming very simple and powerful under DOS environment.
A rapid application development (RAD) approach was employed using a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multi-tasking environment based on FoxPro (Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash.), extended memory management, and
Turbo C++ (Borland International, Scotts Valley, Calif.) toolsets.