SuperMemo for Windows year by year

This text is part of: "History of spaced repetition" by Piotr Wozniak (June 2018)

Introduction

This is a short list of theoretical and software milestones leading to the development of SuperMemo 19 in four decades: 1982-2023.

SuperMemo on paper (1982-1987)

• 1982: my first experiments with memory retention. Creating extensive databases of paper notes in biochemistry and English
• 1985: formulating the first spaced repetition algorithm (see: The birthday of spaced repetition: July 31, 1985)

SuperMemo for DOS (1987-1995)

• SuperMemo 1.0 for DOS (1987)
• SuperMemo 2 (1988)
• SuperMemo 3 (1988)
• SuperMemo 4 with Algorithm SM-4 (1989)
• SuperMemo 5 with Algorithm SM-5 (1989)
• SuperMemo 6 with Algorithm SM-6 (1991)

SuperMemo for Windows (1992-present)

• SuperMemo 7 (1993) was the first version to run in Windows
• SuperMemo 8 (1995) was the first multimedia version written in Delphi
• SuperMemo 9 (1998)
• SuperMemo 10 (2000) pioneered incremental reading
• SuperMemo 11 (2002)
• SuperMemo 12 (2004)
• SuperMemo 13 (2006) pioneered priority queue
• SuperMemo 14 (2008) pioneered incremental video
• SuperMemo 15 (2011)
• SuperMemo 16 (2013)
• SuperMemo 17 (2016) implemented the new Algorithm SM-17
• SuperMemo 18 (2019)
• SuperMemo 19 (2023) transitioned from IE to Edge and Chrome

Source

For details see: Super Memory Archive

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