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November 2024
- November 23 World of Warcraft Released
- November 22 Toy Story Changes the Movies
- November 21 The Birth of the Internet
- November 20 Windows 1.0 Ships
- November 19 Amazon Ignites the Kindle
- November 19 Nintendo Releases Wii
- November 18 Telephones Get a Push
- November 17 Computer Mouse Patented
- November 16 Steve Jobs Writes a Letter
- November 16 Vacuum Tube Invented
- November 15 The Dawn of the Microprocessor
- November 14 Microsoft Introduces Zune
- November 14 Intel Bugs Out
- November 14 Mariner 9 Orbits Mars; First Spacecraft to Orbit Another Planet
- November 13 First Underwater Telegraph Cable
- November 12 Microsoft Declares Tablets Are the Future
- November 12 Conception of the World Wide Web
- November 11 Ethernet is Born
- November 10 The Day the Music Was Reborn
- November 10 Microsoft Introduces Windows
- November 9 A Firefox Rises Out of the Ashes
- November 8 He Put the "X" in X-Rays
- November 7 Pets.com Put to Sleep
- November 6 IBM Signs A Deal With The Devil
- November 5 Android Introduced
- November 4 Attack of the Clones
- November 4 Computer First Predicts Presidential Election
- November 3 First Earthling Into Orbit
- November 2 Morris Worm Tunnels Through Internet
- November 1 First Transistor Radio Goes on Sale
October 2024
- October 31 First Crew to International Space Station
- October 30 War of the Worlds Scares Pants Off Nation
- October 29 First Message on the Internet
- October 28 DMCA Signed into Law
- October 27 First Major ARPANET Outage
- October 26 Pony Express Goes Bye-Bye
- October 25 Windows XP Released
- October 24 Last Flight of the Concorde
- October 24 First Transcontinental Telegraph Line
- October 23 1000 Songs in Your Pocket
- October 22 Photocopying Invented
- October 21 Apple Introduces PowerBook
- October 21 Edison Perfects Light Bulb
- October 20 Triode Announced
- October 19 VisiCalc Officially Released
- October 18 NES Hits North America
- October 18 The World's First "Video" Game
- October 17 IMDb Launched
- October 17 First Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph Service
- October 16 CDC 1604 Released
- October 15 Edison Electric Light Company Formed
- October 14 Photographic Film Patented
- October 13 Cellular Goes Live in US
- October 12 Steve Jobs' NeXT Computer
- October 11 NASA's First Launch
- October 11 Comptometer Patented
- October 10 Pac-Man Fever Begins
- October 9 First Phone Call Over Outdoor Wires
- October 8 Finish Him!
- October 7 The First Transistor Calculator
- October 7 Barcode Technology Patented
- October 6 Photocopying Patented
- October 5 Steve Jobs Passes Away
- October 4 Sputnik Launches the Space Age
- October 3 Transistor Patented
- October 2 ENIAC Retired
- October 1 The First CD Player
September 2024
- September 30 Ethernet is Drafted
- September 29 Microsoft Word 1.0 for DOS
- September 28 Apple Asks Us to Think Different
- September 27 Google's Fake Birthday
- September 27 Richard Stallman Announces the GNU Project
- September 26 Concorde Breaks Atlantic Crossing Speed Record
- September 25 The First Personal Computer You Never Heard Of
- September 24 CompuServe Launches MicroNET
- September 23 The First Android Introduced
- September 22 Computer Code Protected by Copyright
- September 21 Galileo Completes Jupiter Mission
- September 20 First FORTRAN Program Runs
- September 19 Turn That Frown ... Sideways
- September 18 NeXTSTEP OS Released
- September 17 NASA Unveils Enterprise
- September 16 Steve Jobs Named Interim CEO of Apple
- September 16 Steve Jobs Resigns from Apple
- September 15 The Last Apple II
- September 14 First Man-Made Object on Moon
- September 14 First Commercial Hard Drive
- September 13 Osborne Declares Bankruptcy
- September 12 First Test of an Integrated Circuit
- September 11 International Cometary Explorer Passes Through Comet
- September 11 Atari Launches Home Video Gaming
- September 10 The First Internet Search Engine
- September 9 The First Computer "Bug"
- September 8 RIAA Sues A Twelve-Year Old
- September 7 iPod Nano Introduced
- September 6 "Google Satellite" GeoEye-1 Launched
- September 5 Last IBM "Stretch" Computer Shut Down
- September 4 Google Files for Incorporation
- September 3 eBay Founded
- September 2 First Search Engine
- September 1 First Flyby of Saturn
August 2024
- August 31 Aldus - Adobe Merger Finalized
- August 30 First Building Block of the Internet
- August 29 Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction
- August 28 Snow Leopard Released; The End of AppleTalk
- August 27 World's Largest Battery Backup
- August 26 First Use of Tape Recorder in Radio
- August 25 The Birth of Linux
- August 24 Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
- August 24 Windows 95 Released
- August 24 Apple Loses to Microsoft in Court
- August 23 Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Released
- August 22 Itβs Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This
- August 21 Mars Observer Lost
- August 20 First Commercial Telegram Sent Around the World
- August 19 Google's IPO
- August 18 HP Incorporated
- August 17 The First Music CD
- August 16 The First Internet Explorer
- August 15 The Original iMac Goes on Sale
- August 14 Dell Laptops Catch Fire!
- August 13 Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting for SNES
- August 12 The IBM PC Introduced
- August 12 First Communication Satellite Launched
- August 11 Windows Gets Blasted
- August 10 First Lunar Orbiter Launched
- August 9 The First E-mail From Space
- August 9 Diesel Engine Patented in US
- August 8 Project Chess Gets Approval
- August 7 IBM Presents Harvard the Mark I
- August 6 Apple and Microsoft Call Truce
- August 5 First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Completed
- August 4 NASA Launches Phoenix
- August 3 Apple Introduces the Newton
- August 3 Radio Shack Introduces TRS-80
- August 2 First San Francisco Cable Car
- August 1 The Final End of the Lisa
- August 1 Video Killed the Radio Star; MTV Debuts
July 2024
- July 31 First Man to Drive on the Moon
- July 30 Apple Lisa is Born
- July 29 First Transcontinental Phone Call
- July 28 IBM's First Desktop Computer
- July 27 Microsoft Buys Full Rights to 86-DOS
- July 26 World's First Geosynchronous Satellite
- July 25 Sirius and XM Merger Approved
- July 24 First Launch from Cape Canaveral
- July 23 Commodore Amiga Introduced
- July 23 First Ford Model A Sold
- July 22 The Unholy Alliance is Born
- July 21 Apple Introduces iBook Laptop
- July 20 The Eagle Has Landed
- July 19 Mac Cube Introduced
- July 18 Intel Founded
- July 17 π₯³ Happy World Emoji Day! πππ
- July 17 Apple Introduces iCal π
- July 17 Apollo and Soyuz Dock
- July 17 Brown Box Demonstrated to Magnavox VP
- July 17 First Photograph of a Star
- July 16 Apollo 11 Heads for the Moon
- July 15 Nintendo Releases Famicom
- July 14 First Mars Fly-By
- July 13 Code Red Worms its Way into the Internet
- July 12 Not-So Final Fantasy
- July 11 Skylab Reentry
- July 10 First International Communications Satellite
- July 9 Gil Amelio Ousted from Apple
- July 9 Donkey Kong and Mario's Birthday
- July 8 Control Data Corporation Founded
- July 7 A Whole New Way to Drive a Screw
- July 6 AOL Settles Lawsuit on Billing Practices
- July 6 Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys Lotus
- July 5 The First 16mm Film System Introduced
- July 4 Keyboards and Computers, Together at Last!
- July 3 World, Meet the Internet
- July 2 The First Mass-Produced Computer
- July 1 Sony Walkman Makes Music Portable
June 2024
- June 30 The Transition to Transistors Begins
- June 29 The Phone That Changed Everything
- June 28 Apple Takes Podcasting Mainstream
- June 28 First Commercial Communications Satellite Activates
- June 28 Laying of First Transatlantic Telephone Cable
- June 27 All Hail Atari
- June 26 I PC, UPC ...
- June 25 Microsoft Incorporated
- June 24 iPhone 4 Goes on Sale
- June 23 The First Practical Typewriter Patented
- June 22 Jet Mail
- June 22 Greenwich Becomes Mean
- June 21 SpaceShipOne - First Private Space Flight
- June 21 First Stored Program Run
- June 20 SEAC Machine Dedicated
- June 19 Viking 1 Enters Mars Orbit
- June 18 Microsoft Introduces BASIC for 8086
- June 17 DES Cracked
- June 17 First Two Video Games Copyrighted
- June 16 Ford Motor Company Incorporated
- June 15 Gates Announces Transition from Microsoft
- June 15 IBM is Incorporated as CTR
- June 14 Charles Babbage Unveils Difference Engine
- June 13 First Man-Made Object to Leave Solar System
- June 12 Launch of Venera 4
- June 11 Speak & Spell
- June 10 Crossing the Atlantic With Cable
- June 9 Life Finds a Way
- June 8 Apple Announces Snow Leopard
- June 8 One Processor to Rule Them All
- June 7 The Breakup of Microsoft ... That Never Happened
- June 7 Really Geeky Modem Technology Patented
- June 6 Palm Pre Released
- June 6 The Mac Gets Intel Inside
- June 6 Tetris is Born
- June 5 The Apple II Enters the Market
- June 4 VHS Introduced to America
- June 3 Would You Like to Play a Game?
- June 2 US Soft Lands on Moon
- June 1 The Day the Music Industry Changed Forever
May 2024
- May 31 All Your Base Are Belong To Us
- May 30 First Automobile Accident
- May 29 Discovery Docks with International Space Station
- May 29 Apple Newton Announced
- May 28 GIF is Not Peanut Butter
- May 28 First Modern Color Movie
- May 27 Windows Hits Version 2.1
- May 26 Bill Gates' Internet Tidal Wave
- May 25 Return of the Jedi
- May 25 A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away ...
- May 24 First Night Baseball Game
- May 24 First Telegraph Service Launched
- May 23 The Old World Gets Connected
- May 22 Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!
- May 22 The Wright Patent
- May 21 The Empire Strikes Back
- May 21 IBM Announces the "Defense Calculator", Model 701
- May 20 First Female to Fly Solo Across Atlantic
- May 20 First Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
- May 19 Apple Cube Store Opens in NYC
- May 19 Apple Debuts Retail Stores
- May 19 Apple III Introduced
- May 18 Antitrust Suit Filed Against Microsoft
- May 18 Launch of Apollo 10
- May 17 Contract Signed to Create ENIAC
- May 17 First Sports TV Broadcast
- May 16 First Laser Created
- May 16 First Demonstration of Hi-Fi Tape Technology in US
- May 15 Apple Retail Stores Revealed
- May 14 Skylab Launched
- May 13 System 7 Released
- May 13 Money For Nothing?
- May 13 Into the Ether(net)
- May 12 The Z3
- May 11 Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov in Tournament Match
- May 11 VisiCalc Demoed at West Coast Computer Faire
- May 10 The Birth of Wireless
- May 9 Linux Gets Happy Feet
- May 8 Germans Can Be So Dry
- May 7 IBM 704 Introduced
- May 6 "i" is for Apple
- May 5 Wolfenstein 3D Blasts Onto Scene
- May 5 First American in Space
- May 4 Love Stinks
- May 4 Commodore Assets Purchased out of Bankruptcy
- May 3 Dell Founded
- May 3 The First Mass Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, i.e. Spam
- May 2 Microsoft Registers Their Domain Name ... Finally
- May 2 Microsoft Acts Mousey
- May 1 GPS Gets Less Selective
April 2024
- April 30 World Wide Web Made Public Domain
- April 29 Sprechen Sie Sassy?
- April 28 iTunes Music Store Launched; Record Execs Wet Themselves
- April 27 Justice Department Blocks Microsoft Purchase of Intuit
- April 27 Commercial Computer Mouse Introduced
- April 26 Buried E.T. Cartridges Discovered by Archeologists
- April 26 Chernobyl Virus Melts Down PCs
- April 25 Do You Yahoo?
- April 25 Hubble Deployed
- April 24 A Crazy Day for Apple
- April 23 First YouTube Video
- April 22 Mosaic 1.0
- April 21 IBM Licenses PC Patents
- April 20 Windows 98 is Plug and ... Whoa?
- April 20 Demonstration of First Practical Electron Microscope
- April 19 Moore's Law Published
- April 19 Zoom Lenses Come to TV
- April 18 First Megabit Chip in Commercial Product
- April 18 Osborne Executive Introduced
- April 17 Surveyor 3 Launched
- April 16 Apple and Commodore
- April 15 Marcel Brown Technology Services Born
- April 15 PC Industry Born
- April 15 GE Founded
- April 14 Columbia Lands
- April 14 The Titanic Could Have Been Worse
- April 13 Metallica Loses Their Cool
- April 13 Houston, We've Had a Problem
- April 12 First Space Shuttle Launch
- April 12 Who in the World is Ronald Wayne?
- April 12 First Man in Space
- April 11 Sculley Forces Out Jobs
- April 11 The First Vertical Jet Flies
- April 10 ENIAC Project Started
- April 9 The Mercury Seven
- April 8 John Sculley Joins Apple
- April 8 Genesis of COBOL
- April 7 RFC 1 Defines the Building Block of Internet Communication
- April 7 IBM System 360 Changes the Industry Forever
- April 6 Windows 3.1 Released
- April 6 Pioneer 11 Launched
- April 6 First Commercial Communications Satellite Launched
- April 5 Could it be ... SATAN?
- April 5 Stupid Human Tricks in Surround Sound!
- April 4 Netscape Born
- April 4 Microsoft Formed
- April 3 The First Cell Phone Call
- April 3 First Spacecraft to Orbit Moon
- April 2 Microsoft's First Hardware Product
- April 2 First Computerized Legal Search Service
- April 1 Gmail Launched
- April 1 A is for Apple
- April 1 Internal Combustion Engine Patented
March 2024
- March 31 Free ... Your ... Mind
- March 31 Microsoft Bob is Spawned
- March 31 First Electrically Lighted City
- March 30 UNIVAC Unveiled
- March 30 Invention of the Phototransistor
- March 29 TRS-80 Model 100 Introduced
- March 29 First Flyby of Mercury
- March 28 Kodak Releases DC40
- March 28 First Gyroscope Controlled Rocket Launch
- March 27 20-Year Old Bill Gates Gives Address
- March 27 First Long Distance Phone Call
- March 26 Bill Gates Announces First Tablet PCs
- March 26 Melissa Unleashes
- March 26 First Personal Computer Convention
- March 25 Twister First Movie on DVD
- March 25 Space Shuttle Columbia Delivered
- March 24 Mac OS X is Born
- March 24 Popov's First Public Wireless Transmission
- March 23 Mir Falls From the Sky
- March 23 The First Commercial Elevator
- March 22 First Pentiums Shipped
- March 22 Frickin' Laser Beams Patented
- March 21 The World's First Tweet
- March 21 Launch of Ranger 9
- March 20 Yahoo Acquires Flickr
- March 20 The First Battery
- March 19 IBM.com and sun.com Registered
- March 19 Sydney Harbor Bridge Opens
- March 18 Arcade Game of Many Firsts
- March 18 The First Practical Electric Razor
- March 17 Apple Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
- March 17 Vanguard 1 Launched
- March 16 Mac OS X Server 1.0 Released
- March 16 The First Wiki
- March 16 First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launched
- March 15 First Internet Domain Registered
- March 15 First Newsletter of the Homebrew Computer Club
- March 14 Bell Labs Announces TRADIC
- March 14 First Use of Word "Photography"
- March 13 Microsoft Goes Public
- March 13 A Comet? No, that's Uranus!
- March 12 Hulu is Unleashed
- March 12 First Proposal for a World Wide Web
- March 11 NFL Adopts Instant Replay β¦ For The First Time
- March 11 Paper is Shown To Emperor of China, Paper Industry is Launched
- March 10 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reaches Red Planet
- March 10 Dot-Com Bubble Peaks Out
- March 10 Mr. Bell Calls Mr. Watson
- March 9 I Invented the Internet
- March 9 Apple, IBM, Motorola form PowerOpen Association
- March 8 IBM Introduces PC-XT
- March 8 Compact Disc Introduced
- March 8 The First Computer Operating System
- March 7 First Transatlantic Telephone Call
- March 7 Bell Receives Patent for Telephone
- March 6 NASA Launches Kepler
- March 6 SCO Sues IBM; Threatens Linux Users
- March 6 Michelangelo Strikes
- March 5 Yahoo! Officially Launches
- March 5 Sinclair ZX81 Launched
- March 5 Homebrew Computer Club Holds First Meeting
- March 4 The World's First Internet Election
- March 4 Japan Goes Crazy for Playstation 2!
- March 4 First Cray Supercomputer Shipped
- March 3 Michael Dell Steps Down as CEO
- March 3 Magnavox Licenses Home Video Games
- March 2 Gates Admits Netscape Lockout
- March 2 Pioneer 10 Launched
- March 2 Concorde Makes Maiden Flight
- March 1 Netscape Discontinued
- March 1 On The First Day ...
- March 1 First Spacecraft to Land On Another Planet
February 2024
- February 29 Apple Passes $500 Billion Valuation
- February 29 Tokyo Skytree Completed
- February 28 Disney CEO Claims Apple Encourages Theft
- February 28 First Color TVs Go on Sale
- February 28 AT&T Incorporated
- February 27 CompUSA Restructures
- February 27 V.92 Introduced
- February 27 Apple Discontinues the Newton
- February 26 The First Web Browser Introduced
- February 26 First Saturn 1B Rocket Launch
- February 26 RADAR Demonstrated for First Time
- February 25 Apple Sells 10 Billionth Song
- February 25 First Check Photographing Device Patented
- February 25 Electric Motor Patented
- February 24 Final Mission of Space Shuttle Discovery
- February 24 First Phone and TV Satellite Relays
- February 24 "First" US Rocket to Reach Outer Space
- February 23 First Mobile Phone Virus
- February 23 Radio Gets Controlled
- February 23 Holy Type!
- February 22 First Internet Only Bank
- February 22 Dolly Unveiled
- February 22 First Presidential Radio Address
- February 21 First Telephone Book Published
- February 21 First Burglar Alarm Installed
- February 21 Edison Patents Light Switch, Sort Of
- February 20 Space Station Mir is Launched
- February 20 John Glen Becomes First American to Orbit Earth
- February 19 HD DVD Surrenders
- February 19 In the Beginning Apple.com Was Created
- February 19 First Warrant to Search Computer Data
- February 18 First Flight of Space Shuttle - Just Not Into Space
- February 18 First Cable TV Test
- February 18 First Airmail Delivery
- February 17 Windows 2000 Introduced
- February 17 QuickTake 100 Launched
- February 17 First Weather Satellite Launched
- February 16 IBM Portable PC Introduced
- February 16 The First BBS Goes Live
- February 16 911 Begins Service
- February 15 Windows Refund Day
- February 15 They Put the "You" in "Tube"
- February 15 Hacker Mitnick Arrested
- February 15 ENIAC Dedicated
- February 14 First Modern GPS Satellite Launches
- February 14 The First Electronic Computer Unveiled
- February 14 The Birth of IBM
- February 14 Telephone Patented By Two Men
- February 13 1234567890 Day!
- February 13 Apollo Computer Incorporated
- February 13 Motion Picture Projector Patented
- February 12 Spacecraft Lands on an Asteroid
- February 12 She Was Also Famous for Tennis
- February 12 First Long Distance Telephone Call Made
- February 11 First Use of the Word "Podcast"
- February 11 Discovery Launches to Service Hubble
- February 11 Titan-Centaur Fails First Test, Yet Mission Successful
- February 11 Osumi!
- February 10 Satellites Collide!
- February 10 A Computer Defeats a World Chess Champion
- February 10 Galileo Flies by Venus
- February 9 Introduction of the Bandai Pippin
- February 9 First Flight of Boeing 747
- February 9 First Flight of Boeing 727
- February 8 Google Maps is Unleashed
- February 8 24 Hours in Cyberspace
- February 8 A Patent is Filed for the Harvard Mark I
- February 7 Kasparov Redeems Himself ... Sort Of
- February 7 First Untethered Space Walk
- February 7 DAF 600 Unveiled
- February 6 V.90 Announced
- February 6 The Woz Leaves Apple
- February 6 First Golf Ball Hit on Moon
- February 5 First Victoria's Secret Webcast
- February 5 Apollo 14 Lands on Moon
- February 5 First Automatic Don't Walk Sign
- February 4 Facebook is Born
- February 4 The Sims Released
- February 4 Apple Acquires NeXT; Steve Jobs Returns to Apple
- February 3 First Woman to Pilot the Space Shuttle
- February 3 Genesis of "Vaporware"
- February 3 First Soft Landing on Moon
- February 2 Amelio Becomes Apple CEO
- February 2 TRS-80 Born
- February 2 First Polygraph Used
- February 1 Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
- February 1 286 Processor Introduced
- February 1 First Working Prototype of Rotary Engine
- February 1 First Movie Studio Completed
January 2024
- January 31 SBC Buys AT&T; The Learner Becomes the Master
- January 31 First Ape into Space
- January 31 The First American Satellite Launches Into Orbit
- January 30 Windows Vista Released; Users Exodus
- January 30 First Super Bowl in HD
- January 30 First Computer Virus Written
- January 29 Phobos II Orbits Mars
- January 29 Tetris Sneaks Into the US
- January 29 Karl Benz Patents Gas Automobile
- January 28 Radio Shack Chooses Compaq
- January 28 Yahoo! Buys GeoCities
- January 28 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- January 27 iPad Introduced
- January 27 Jim Clark Leaves Silicon Graphics
- January 27 Apollo 1 Tragedy
- January 27 Edison Patents Incandescent Lamp
- January 26 Compaq Purchases DEC
- January 26 Lotus 1-2-3 Goes on Sale
- January 26 Ranger 3 Launched
- January 25 Opportunity Lands on Mars
- January 25 First Transcontinental Phone Service
- January 25 First Transcontinental Jet Flight
- January 24 First Fly-By of Uranus
- January 24 Macintosh Launched
- January 24 Microwave Oven Patented
- January 23 Last Contact with Pioneer 10
- January 23 Java Released; Coffee Drinkers Confused
- January 23 First Bridge Over the Mississippi River
- January 22 1984 Commercial Introduces the Macintosh
- January 22 First Lunar Module Test Launch
- January 22 First TV Station West of Mississippi
- January 21 Twitter.com is Born
- January 21 It Could Go at Least 88 MPH
- January 21 Concorde Begins Commercial Flights
- January 20 The Happy99 Worm Appears
- January 20 Don't Call a Lemming a Lemming
- January 20 The Super Fight
- January 19 BlackBerry Introduced
- January 19 IBM Loses $5 Billion
- January 19 Apple Lisa Introduced
- January 19 Neon Lighting Tube Patented
- January 18 The Superjumbo is Unveiled
- January 18 Yahoo.com Registered
- January 18 First Plane Landing on a Ship
- January 17 Drudge Report Legitimizes Internet Reporting
- January 17 Computer is Used in the Discovery of New Planets
- January 17 Supreme Court Rules on Home VCR Recordings
- January 16 Space Shuttle Columbia Launches for Final Time
- January 16 Soyuz 4 & 5 Make History
- January 15 Wikipedia Goes Online; Bookshelves Clear Up
- January 15 NCSA Opens
- January 15 IETF Meets For the First Time
- January 15 The Birth of Video Games
- January 14 Steve Jobs Goes on Hiatus
- January 14 Probe Lands on Titan
- January 14 First Car Built on Assembly Line
- January 13 Bill Gates Steps Aside
- January 13 Friday the 13th Virus Gets Brits
- January 13 First Public Radio Performance
- January 13 Adding Machine Patented
- January 12 Apple Posts Major Loss
- January 12 Boeing 747 Flies for First Time
- January 12 911 is Born
- January 11 iPod Shuffle Introduced
- January 11 Telstar 401 Satellite Fails Mysteriously
- January 11 Three Spacecraft Dock Together For First Time
- January 11 First Solo Flight From Hawaii to California
- January 10 Apple Ships Intel Inside
- January 10 Moon Rocket Announced
- January 10 First RADAR Contact With Moon
- January 10 Maiden Flight of First Flying Boat
- January 10 First Subway Opens in London
- January 9 Bitcoin Launched
- January 9 Apple - Not Just For Computers Anymore
- January 9 Apple Introduces iPhone
- January 9 Apple Introduces iTunes
- January 9 "First" Motion Picture Film to Receive Copyright
- January 8 Record Stay in Space Begins
- January 8 AT&T Settles; Agrees to Breakup
- January 8 Luna 21 Launches
- January 8 Punched Card Calculator Patented
- January 7 The Last Surveyor Launches
- January 7 First Day of Transatlantic Phone Service
- January 6 iPod Mini Introduced
- January 6 Mac OS X Introduced
- January 6 First 1 MB Memory Chip
- January 6 Morse Demonstrates Telegraph
- January 5 Nexus is the One
- January 5 Richard Stallman Begins Work on GNU
- January 5 Space Shuttle Given Green Light
- January 5 The First Color Newsreel
- January 5 Construction Begins on Golden Gate
- January 4 Spirit Lands on Mars
- January 4 First Handheld Scientific Calculator
- January 4 Luna 1 Reaches Moon
- January 4 Sputnik 1 Falls
- January 4 4 Wheeled Skates Patented in US
- January 3 The Genesis of Bitcoin
- January 3 Mars Polar Lander Launched
- January 3 Motorola StarTAC Introduced
- January 3 Apple Computer Grows Up
- January 3 First Electric Watch Introduced
- January 2 Stardust Flies By Comet Wild 2
- January 2 Software Arts Incorporated
- January 2 Luna 1 Launch
- January 2 First Moon Photo
- January 1 Y2K Comes and Goes
- January 1 Domain Name System Created; .com is Born!
- January 1 The Breakup of Ma Bell
- January 1 The Dawn of the Internet
- January 1 The Beginning of Time?
- January 1 ENIAC Completed
- January 1 Hewlett and Packard Formalize Partnership
- January 1 First Ball Drop in Times Square, NYC
December 2023
- December 31 Zune 2K Day
- December 31 Y2K Looms
- December 31 Microsoft Releases Windows 3.11
- December 30 AT&T Takes Over Bell System
- December 29 First UHF TV Station
- December 28 First Public Projected Movie Screening
- December 27 Jeff Bezos Named Person of the Year
- December 26 Personal Computer "Man of the Year"
- December 25 The World Wide Web is Finished by Christmas
- December 24 GIF Madness!
- December 23 First Men to Orbit the Moon
- December 22 The First Electric Christmas Tree Lights
- December 21 Snow White Premieres
- December 20 Apple Announces Purchase of NeXT
- December 19 Altair 8800 Goes on Sale; Inspires PC Era
- December 18 The Internet Goes Hollywood
- December 18 Perl is Always Appropriate
- December 17 Wright Brothers First Powered Flight
- December 16 Canning Spam
- December 15 AltaVista Launches
- December 15 Netscape 1.0 Released
- December 14 The First Transpacific Telegraph Cable
- December 13 Relay I Launched
- December 12 Apple's IPO Makes Forrest Gump Rich
- December 11 Google Releases Chrome
- December 10 iD Software Releases DOOM
- December 9 Windows 2.0 Released
- December 9 A Worm For Christmas?
- December 9 Douglas Englebart Demos the "Mouse"
- December 8 The Byte Shop Opens
- December 7 RIAA Sues Napster
- December 6 Apple Sues over QuickTime
- December 5 Initial ARPANet Completed
- December 4 Goner Worm Hits Internet
- December 4 Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Begins
- December 3 Segway Unveiled
- December 2 Apple Releases QuickTime
- December 1 Business.com is Big Business
- December 1 AOL Goes Unlimited
- December 1 Project Gutenberg Launched
November 2023
- November 30 Barnes and Noble Releases Nook
- November 30 IBM 7090 Delivered
- November 29 Altair 8800 Featured in Popular Electronics
- November 29 Atari Introduces Pong
- November 28 Polaroid Instant Camera Goes on Sale
- November 27 Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 2.0
- November 26 MP3 Patented in US
- November 26 Microsoft Trademarked
- November 25 Roxio Acquires Napster Legacy
- November 24 AOL Buys Netscape