Ruby history
Ruby is invented and developed mostly by Japans.- 1993, February 24: Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz") started to work on Ruby.
- 1993, Summer: First "Hello, world!" program works.
- 1995, December: First release 0.95.
- 1996, December: 1.0 is released.
- 1999: Supposedly overtakes Python in Japan.
- 2000: The first official newsgroup.
- 2000-2001: Several books and magazine articles published.
- 2003, August 4: 1.8.0 is released.
