You really want to know? My first programming language was EDSAC Autocode for EDSAC 2, the (only) Cambridge University (UK) computer.

EDSAC 2 had vacuum tubes for logic and mercury delay lines for memory. The programming course was taught by Maurice Wilkes in an auditorium to several hundred undergraduates, using a very bad PA system. I persuaded my Physics practical supervisor to let me use EDSAC to perform simple calculations on my experiment results and I wrote my first program in 1963 or 1964. [I was studying Maths and Physics because there were no Computer Science degrees back then.]

After that, during my PhD, I learned machine code for the Digital PDP-8, a lovely little machine, and used it to drive my experiment hardware and collect results. I also learned PDP-8 Fortran, which was so stripped down it did not even have subroutines, and Algol 60 to use the Maths department's IBM 1620.

Over my career I have had to be promiscuous about programming languages: POP-2, LISP, PROLOG , POP-11, Pascal, Java, C, C++, Basic(!), Javascript...

Sorry, but refrigeration is possible with no electricity and no moving parts, using a heat source (e.g. gas flame) instead. Look up "Absorption Refrigerator" on Wikipedia.

There are two different ways I would like to search:

• Text
  • keywords, boolean combinations, verbatim, special characters, etc.
• Meaning
  • stemming of words (e.g. ignore singular v plural)
  • synonyms (e.g. car = automobile)
  • types (e.g. i want an address, an algorithm, a definition, an event)
  • constraints (e.g. i DON'T want to buy one - that should be a tick box in Google anyway!)
  • time (e.g. this year, before the industrial revolution)
  • attributes
  • relationships

This is what the semantic web is supposed to bring us, but we can do much more with what already exists.
A great deal has been achieved in AI and natural language understanding over several decades.

No doubt Google are working on it all right now...