Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
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#22TeX, the typesetting system developed by Donald Knuth
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#23The Theremin and early Moog synthesizers by Bob Moog.
SID (the sound chip of the Commodore 64) by Bob Yannes.
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#24Tarsnap - https://www.tarsnap.com/
(I cannot recommend this service enough.)
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#25HTOP (Hisham Muhammad)
PCem (Sarah Walker)
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#26Surprised no one mentioned git. Made over the course of a single week by Linus Torvalds,
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#27Unturned
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#28Coral Castle outside of miami, one weird man's project. https://coralcastle.com/
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#29I'd put emacs and gcc by Richard Stallman on the list. (Obviously they subsequently grew to way more than one persons efforts.)
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#30Probably not what you had in mind, but the first thing that popped into my mind after reading the subtitle of your post was Venus of Dolni Vestonice, a little ceramic figurine of a woman dated to 29,000–25,000 BCE. Beautiful piece of art in my opinion (although beauty standards have changed).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Doln%C3%AD_V%C4%9Bsto...