| 29 |
Apr |
S23 |
1952 - IBM 701 Defense Computer launched |
| 30 |
Apr |
S98 |
1916 - Birth of Claude Elwood Shannon, became one of the early personal computer philosophers |
| 1 |
May |
S93 |
1969 - AMD founded by Fairchild emigrants including Jack Gifford, Jerry Sanders and Ed Turney |
| 2 |
May |
S585 |
1984 - HP-110 laptop computer released |
| 3 |
May |
S455 |
1978 - Gary Thuerk at DEC creates first SPAM mailing to early ARPANET users |
| 4 |
May |
E76 |
1878 - Phonograph first demonstrated at the Grand Opera House in LA |
| 5 |
May |
S555 |
2003 - LinkedIn launched by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Eric Ly. Konstantin Guericke |
| 6 |
May |
S49 |
1949 - Maurice Wilkes, Cambridge completes EDSAC - first practical stored-program electronic computer |
| 7 |
May |
S240 |
1948 - Birth of Bob Denton, author of the PC Pioneers, Micronet 800, Prism... |
| 8 |
May |
S88 |
1943 - Birth of Fujio Masuoka, who, working at Toshiba, invented flash memory |
| 9 |
May |
S243 |
1953 - Birth of Andy Hopper, Cambridge Uni, Cambridge Ring, Acorn, Olivetti... |
| 10 |
May |
S548 |
2011 - Skype acquired by Microsoft for $8.5bn - some thirty-two times its operating profit! |
| 11 |
May |
S316 |
1979 - VisiCalc - Visible Calculator - spreadsheet launched by Dan Bricklin |
| 12 |
May |
S25 |
1941 - Konrad Zuse's Z3 - world-first fully-functioning electro-mechanical computer |
| 13 |
May |
S150 |
1980 - Xerox, DEC and Intel agree to jointly promote Ethernet |
| 14 |
May |
S558 |
1984 - Birth of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, the Facebook designer |
| 15 |
May |
S153 |
1984 - HP Laserjet printer released, a major stepping stone towards DTP |
| 16 |
May |
S69 |
1938 - Birth of Ivan E Sutherland, major contributors, wrote Sketchpad, ARPA, Evans & Sutherland... |
| 17 |
May |
S144 |
1940 - Birth of Alan Curtis Kay, major influence Dynabook, Xeox PARC, SmallTalk, FLEX... |
| 18 |
May |
S487 |
1995 - Death of Bill von Meister, co-founder of The Source |
| 19 |
May |
S271 |
1942 - Birth of Gary Kildall, founded DRI and developed CP/M |
| 20 |
May |
S295 |
1995 - James Gosling at Sun released the Java language - 'write once run anywhere' |
| 21 |
May |
S76 |
1921 - Birth of Sandy Douglas, developed the early OXO computer game |
| 22 |
May |
S216 |
1954 - Birth of Shuji Nakamura, at UCSB developed the process that emerged as Blu-Ray |
| 23 |
May |
S495 |
1995 - Bill Gates publishes, rather belatedly, 'The Internet Tidal Wave' |
| 24 |
May |
S501 |
1985 - Quantum Computer Services launched Q-Link or QuantumLink, becomes AOL |
| 25 |
May |
S523 |
2007 - David McCutchen's work culminates as Google Streetview |
| 26 |
May |
S317 |
1981 - First US software patent granted to Satya Pal Asija For SwiftAnswer |
| 27 |
May |
S176 |
1981 - Apple IPO sells 2.6 million shares at $31.25, Woz Plan |
| 28 |
May |
S227 |
1982 - Trip Hawkins Amazin' Games founded - later changed to Electronic Arts |
| 29 |
May |
S131 |
2002 - IEEE 1394 standard agreed and named FireWire |
| 30 |
May |
S523 |
2007 - Google Panoramio launched |
| 31 |
May |
S232 |
1932 - Birth of Jay Miner, developed the ICs for the Atari VCS display, founded Hi-Toro/Amiga |
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