Yahoo! Officially Launches

By Marcel Brown |

Yahoo! LogoMarch 5, 1995

The Yahoo! search engine officially launches on the Internet. 13 months later, Yahoo! will hold its IPO at a price of $13 per share. Yahoo!’s stock will peak at $475 in January 2000, and fall to $8.02 in September 2001.

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Sinclair ZX81 Launched

By Marcel Brown |

March 5, 1981

The Sinclair ZX81, the successor to the ZX80, is launched in England. Designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing, the ZX81 was the first personal computer to be later sold in the United States for under $150. More than 1.5 million units were sold worldwide and created a lasting legacy among nascent programmers and early personal computer users. 

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Homebrew Computer Club Holds First Meeting

By Marcel Brown |

"Invitation to First Homebrew Computer Club meeting" by Gotanero - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Invitation_to_First_Homebrew_Computer_Club_meeting.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Invitation_to_First_Homebrew_Computer_Club_meeting.jpg

The invitation to the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

March 5, 1975

The Homebrew Computer Club holds its first meeting. Many people who played an important part in the early years of personal computing attended meetings of  the Homebrew Computer Club during its history. Perhaps no meeting was more important than the one that took place almost exactly one year after the first: Steve Wozniak brought his design for what eventually becomes the Apple I computer.

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