And with the release of Mathematica 1.0 in 1988 came another critical element: the invention of Wolfram Notebooks. Notebooks arrived in a form at least superficially very similar to the way they are today (and already in many ways more sophisticated than the imitations that started appearing 25+ years later!)
See also Jupyter Notebooks
See also:
I like Knuthâs take on the subject: http://literateprogramming.com