History and Evolution
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What is History and Evolution?
DevRel as a formal discipline emerged in the late 1980s when Apple and Sun Microsystems created dedicated teams to support third-party developers building on their platforms. Over the following decades it evolved from a support function into a strategic role, growing alongside the API economy and open-source movement. Today it covers a broad range of activities from technical content creation to community building and product feedback.
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History and Evolution: common questions
Can I learn History and Evolution in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain History and Evolution in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this History and Evolution tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 7 of 142 in the free Developer Relations roadmap, in stage 1, What is DevRel?. If you are new to Developer Relations, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.