Editing Programmer (section)

==The software industry==
{{Main|Software industry}}
The first company founded specifically to provide software products and services was the [[Computer Usage Company]] in 1955. Before that time, computers were programmed either by customers or the few commercial computer manufacturers of the time, such as [[Sperry Rand]] and [[IBM]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Elmer C. Kubie|date=Summer 1994|title=Recollections of the first software company|journal=[[Annals of the History of Computing]]|volume=16|issue=2|pages=65–71|doi=10.1109/85.279238|s2cid=5733812}}</ref>

The [[software industry]] expanded in the early 1960s, almost immediately after computers were first sold in mass-produced quantities. Universities, governments, and businesses created a demand for software. Many of these programs were written in-house by full-time staff programmers; some were distributed between users of a particular machine for no charge, while others were sold on a commercial basis. Other firms, such as [[Computer Sciences Corporation]] (founded in 1959), also started to grow. Computer manufacturers soon started bundling [[operating systems]], [[system software]] and [[programming environments]] with their machines; the [[IBM 1620]] came with the 1620 Symbolic Programming System and [[Fortran|FORTRAN]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-01-23|title= 1620 Data Processing System|url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1620.html|access-date=2021-03-17|website=IBM Archives |language=en-US|archive-date=10 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210205857/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1620.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The industry expanded greatly with the rise of the [[personal computer]] (PC) in the mid-1970s, which brought computing to the average office worker. In the following years, the PC also helped create a constantly growing market for games, applications and utility software. This resulted in increased demand for software developers for that period of time.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Occupations in Information Technology|url=https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2016/acs/acs-35.html|access-date=2021-03-21|website=United States Census Bureau |date= August 16, 2016 |first1=Julia |last1=Beckhusen |language=EN-US|archive-date=22 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322030738/https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2016/acs/acs-35.html|url-status=live}}</ref>