The Making Timeline

Created by a Soviet software engineer at the Moscow Academy of Sciences on an Elektronika 60 computer that couldn't display graphics—only text characters using brackets.

Miyamoto's team wrote specifications on February 20, 1985. Six months later, they put it on ROM. The entire game fit in just 40KB of memory.

Written in cafes while Rowling was a single mother. During those 5 years, her mother died, she moved to Portugal, got married, had a daughter, and divorced.

Two bicycle mechanics with no college degrees outpaced government-funded scientists. They built a wind tunnel and tested over 200 wing designs.

President Kennedy challenged the nation to land on the Moon within the decade. Over 400,000 engineers, scientists, and workers at 20,000 companies made it happen.

Da Vinci carried this painting with him for years, continuously adding thin layers of oil glazes. He was a perfectionist who juggled many commissions and never considered it "finished."

The first fully computer-animated feature film. Disney nearly cancelled it in November 1993 after seeing early reels—a day Pixar calls "Black Friday."

Beethoven first dreamed of setting Schiller's "Ode to Joy" to music in 1793. He sketched over 200 versions of the main theme before the final one.