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2025

June 15th Gates Announces Transition from Microsoft
June 15th IBM is Incorporated as CTR
June 14th Charles Babbage Unveils Difference Engine
June 13th First Man-Made Object to Leave Solar System
June 12th Launch of Venera 4
December 31st Zune 2K Day
December 31st Y2K Looms
December 31st Microsoft Releases Windows 3.11
December 30th AT&T Takes Over Bell System
December 29th First UHF TV Station
December 28th First Public Projected Movie Screening
December 27th Jeff Bezos Named Person of the Year
December 26th Personal Computer “Man of the Year”
December 25th The World Wide Web is Finished by Christmas
December 24th GIF Madness!
December 23rd First Men to Orbit the Moon
December 22nd The First Electric Christmas Tree Lights
December 21st Snow White Premieres
December 20th Apple Announces Purchase of NeXT
December 19th Altair 8800 Goes on Sale; Inspires PC Era
December 18th The Internet Goes Hollywood
December 18th Perl is Always Appropriate
December 17th Wright Brothers First Powered Flight
December 16th Canning Spam
December 15th AltaVista Launches
December 15th Netscape 1.0 Released
December 14th The First Transpacific Telegraph Cable
December 13th Relay I Launched
December 12th Apple’s IPO Makes Forrest Gump Rich
December 11th Google Releases Chrome
December 10th iD Software Releases DOOM
December 9th Windows 2.0 Released
December 9th A Worm For Christmas?
December 9th Douglas Englebart Demos the “Mouse”
December 8th The Byte Shop Opens
December 7th RIAA Sues Napster
December 6th Apple Sues over QuickTime
December 5th Initial ARPANet Completed
December 4th Goner Worm Hits Internet
December 4th Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Begins
December 3rd Segway Unveiled
December 2nd Apple Releases QuickTime
December 1st Business.com is Big Business
December 1st AOL Goes Unlimited
December 1st Project Gutenberg Launched
November 30th Barnes and Noble Releases Nook
November 30th IBM 7090 Delivered
November 29th Altair 8800 Featured in Popular Electronics
November 29th Atari Introduces Pong
November 28th Polaroid Instant Camera Goes on Sale
November 27th Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 2.0
November 26th MP3 Patented in US
November 26th Microsoft Trademarked
November 25th Roxio Acquires Napster Legacy
November 24th AOL Buys Netscape
November 23rd World of Warcraft Released
November 22nd Toy Story Changes the Movies
November 21st The Birth of the Internet
November 20th Windows 1.0 Ships
November 19th Amazon Ignites the Kindle
November 19th Nintendo Releases Wii
November 18th Telephones Get a Push
November 17th Computer Mouse Patented
November 16th Steve Jobs Writes a Letter
November 16th Vacuum Tube Invented
November 15th The Dawn of the Microprocessor
November 14th Microsoft Introduces Zune
November 14th Intel Bugs Out
November 14th Mariner 9 Orbits Mars; First Spacecraft to Orbit Another Planet
November 13th First Underwater Telegraph Cable
November 12th Microsoft Declares Tablets Are the Future
November 12th Conception of the World Wide Web
November 11th Ethernet is Born
November 10th The Day the Music Was Reborn
November 10th Microsoft Introduces Windows
November 9th A Firefox Rises Out of the Ashes
November 8th He Put the “X” in X-Rays
November 7th Pets.com Put to Sleep
November 6th IBM Signs A Deal With The Devil
November 5th Android Introduced
November 4th Attack of the Clones
November 4th Computer First Predicts Presidential Election
November 3rd First Earthling Into Orbit
November 2nd Morris Worm Tunnels Through Internet
November 1st First Transistor Radio Goes on Sale
October 31st First Crew to International Space Station
October 30th War of the Worlds Scares Pants Off Nation
October 29th First Message on the Internet
October 28th DMCA Signed into Law
October 27th First Major ARPANET Outage
October 26th Pony Express Goes Bye-Bye
October 25th Windows XP Released
October 24th Last Flight of the Concorde
October 24th First Transcontinental Telegraph Line
October 23rd 1000 Songs in Your Pocket
October 22nd Photocopying Invented
October 21st Apple Introduces PowerBook
October 21st Edison Perfects Light Bulb
October 20th Triode Announced
October 19th VisiCalc Officially Released
October 18th NES Hits North America
October 18th The World’s First “Video” Game
October 17th IMDb Launched
October 17th First Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph Service
October 16th CDC 1604 Released
October 15th Edison Electric Light Company Formed
October 14th Photographic Film Patented
October 13th Cellular Goes Live in US
October 12th Steve Jobs’ NeXT Computer
October 11th NASA’s First Launch
October 11th Comptometer Patented
October 10th Pac-Man Fever Begins
October 9th First Phone Call Over Outdoor Wires
October 8th Finish Him!
October 7th The First Transistor Calculator
October 7th Barcode Technology Patented
October 6th Photocopying Patented
October 5th Steve Jobs Passes Away
October 4th Sputnik Launches the Space Age
October 3rd Transistor Patented
October 2nd ENIAC Retired
October 1st The First CD Player
September 30th Ethernet is Drafted
September 29th Microsoft Word 1.0 for DOS
September 28th Apple Asks Us to Think Different
September 27th Google’s Fake Birthday
September 27th Richard Stallman Announces the GNU Project
September 26th Concorde Breaks Atlantic Crossing Speed Record
September 25th The First Personal Computer You Never Heard Of
September 24th CompuServe Launches MicroNET
September 23rd The First Android Introduced
September 22nd Computer Code Protected by Copyright
September 21st Galileo Completes Jupiter Mission
September 20th First FORTRAN Program Runs
September 19th Turn That Frown … Sideways
September 18th NeXTSTEP OS Released
September 17th NASA Unveils Enterprise
September 16th Steve Jobs Named Interim CEO of Apple
September 16th Steve Jobs Resigns from Apple
September 15th The Last Apple II
September 14th First Man-Made Object on Moon
September 14th First Commercial Hard Drive
September 13th Osborne Declares Bankruptcy
September 12th First Test of an Integrated Circuit
September 11th International Cometary Explorer Passes Through Comet
September 11th Atari Launches Home Video Gaming
September 10th The First Internet Search Engine
September 9th The First Computer “Bug”
September 8th RIAA Sues A Twelve-Year Old
September 7th iPod Nano Introduced
September 6th “Google Satellite” GeoEye-1 Launched
September 5th Last IBM “Stretch” Computer Shut Down
September 4th Google Files for Incorporation
September 3rd eBay Founded
September 2nd First Search Engine
September 1st First Flyby of Saturn
August 31st Aldus – Adobe Merger Finalized
August 30th First Building Block of the Internet
August 29th Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction
August 28th Snow Leopard Released; The End of AppleTalk
August 27th World’s Largest Battery Backup
August 26th First Use of Tape Recorder in Radio
August 25th The Birth of Linux
August 24th Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
August 24th Windows 95 Released
August 24th Apple Loses to Microsoft in Court
August 23rd Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Released
August 22nd It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This
August 21st Mars Observer Lost
August 20th First Commercial Telegram Sent Around the World
August 19th Google’s IPO
August 18th HP Incorporated
August 17th The First Music CD
August 16th The First Internet Explorer
August 15th The Original iMac Goes on Sale
August 14th Dell Laptops Catch Fire!
August 13th Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting for SNES
August 12th The IBM PC Introduced
August 12th First Communication Satellite Launched
August 11th Windows Gets Blasted
August 10th First Lunar Orbiter Launched
August 9th The First E-mail From Space
August 9th Diesel Engine Patented in US
August 8th Project Chess Gets Approval
August 7th IBM Presents Harvard the Mark I
August 6th Apple and Microsoft Call Truce
August 5th First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Completed
August 4th NASA Launches Phoenix
August 3rd Apple Introduces the Newton
August 3rd Radio Shack Introduces TRS-80
August 2nd First San Francisco Cable Car
August 1st The Final End of the Lisa
August 1st Video Killed the Radio Star; MTV Debuts
July 31st First Man to Drive on the Moon
July 30th Apple Lisa is Born
July 29th First Transcontinental Phone Call
July 28th IBM’s First Desktop Computer
July 27th Microsoft Buys Full Rights to 86-DOS
July 26th World’s First Geosynchronous Satellite
July 25th Sirius and XM Merger Approved
July 24th First Launch from Cape Canaveral
July 23rd Commodore Amiga Introduced
July 23rd First Ford Model A Sold
July 22nd The Unholy Alliance is Born
July 21st Apple Introduces iBook Laptop
July 20th The Eagle Has Landed
July 19th Mac Cube Introduced
July 18th Intel Founded
July 17th 🥳 Happy World Emoji Day! 🌎🎉📅
July 17th Apple Introduces iCal 📅
July 17th Apollo and Soyuz Dock
July 17th Brown Box Demonstrated to Magnavox VP
July 17th First Photograph of a Star
July 16th Apollo 11 Heads for the Moon
July 15th Nintendo Releases Famicom
July 14th First Mars Fly-By
July 13th Code Red Worms its Way into the Internet
July 12th Not-So Final Fantasy
July 11th Skylab Reentry
July 10th First International Communications Satellite
July 9th Gil Amelio Ousted from Apple
July 9th Donkey Kong and Mario’s Birthday
July 8th Control Data Corporation Founded
July 7th A Whole New Way to Drive a Screw
July 6th AOL Settles Lawsuit on Billing Practices
July 6th Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys Lotus
July 5th The First 16mm Film System Introduced
July 4th Keyboards and Computers, Together at Last!
July 3rd World, Meet the Internet
July 2nd The First Mass-Produced Computer
July 1st Sony Walkman Makes Music Portable
June 30th The Transition to Transistors Begins
June 29th The Phone That Changed Everything
June 28th Apple Takes Podcasting Mainstream
June 28th First Commercial Communications Satellite Activates
June 28th Laying of First Transatlantic Telephone Cable
June 27th All Hail Atari
June 26th I PC, UPC …
June 25th Microsoft Incorporated
June 24th iPhone 4 Goes on Sale
June 23rd The First Practical Typewriter Patented
June 22nd Jet Mail
June 22nd Greenwich Becomes Mean
June 21st SpaceShipOne – First Private Space Flight
June 21st First Stored Program Run
June 20th SEAC Machine Dedicated
June 19th Viking 1 Enters Mars Orbit
June 18th Microsoft Introduces BASIC for 8086
June 17th DES Cracked
June 17th First Two Video Games Copyrighted
June 16th Ford Motor Company Incorporated

2026

June 11th Speak & Spell
June 10th Crossing the Atlantic With Cable
June 9th Life Finds a Way
June 8th Apple Announces Snow Leopard
June 8th One Processor to Rule Them All
June 7th The Breakup of Microsoft … That Never Happened
June 7th Really Geeky Modem Technology Patented
June 6th Palm Pre Released
June 6th The Mac Gets Intel Inside
June 6th Tetris is Born
June 5th The Apple II Enters the Market
June 4th VHS Introduced to America
June 3rd Would You Like to Play a Game?
June 2nd US Soft Lands on Moon
June 1st The Day the Music Industry Changed Forever
May 31st All Your Base Are Belong To Us
May 30th First Automobile Accident
May 29th Discovery Docks with International Space Station
May 29th Apple Newton Announced
May 28th GIF is Not Peanut Butter
May 28th First Modern Color Movie
May 27th Windows Hits Version 2.1
May 26th Bill Gates’ Internet Tidal Wave
May 25th Return of the Jedi
May 25th A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away …
May 24th First Night Baseball Game
May 24th First Telegraph Service Launched
May 23rd The Old World Gets Connected
May 22nd Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!
May 22nd The Wright Patent
May 21st The Empire Strikes Back
May 21st IBM Announces the “Defense Calculator”, Model 701
May 20th First Female to Fly Solo Across Atlantic
May 20th First Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
May 19th Apple Cube Store Opens in NYC
May 19th Apple Debuts Retail Stores
May 19th Apple III Introduced
May 18th Antitrust Suit Filed Against Microsoft
May 18th Launch of Apollo 10
May 17th Contract Signed to Create ENIAC
May 17th First Sports TV Broadcast
May 16th First Laser Created
May 16th First Demonstration of Hi-Fi Tape Technology in US
May 15th Apple Retail Stores Revealed
May 14th Skylab Launched
May 13th System 7 Released
May 13th Money For Nothing?
May 13th Into the Ether(net)
May 12th The Z3
May 11th Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov in Tournament Match
May 11th VisiCalc Demoed at West Coast Computer Faire
May 10th The Birth of Wireless
May 9th Linux Gets Happy Feet
May 8th Germans Can Be So Dry
May 7th IBM 704 Introduced
May 6th “i” is for Apple
May 5th Wolfenstein 3D Blasts Onto Scene
May 5th First American in Space
May 4th Love Stinks
May 4th Commodore Assets Purchased out of Bankruptcy
May 3rd Dell Founded
May 3rd The First Mass Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, i.e. Spam
May 2nd Microsoft Registers Their Domain Name … Finally
May 2nd Microsoft Acts Mousey
May 1st GPS Gets Less Selective
April 30th World Wide Web Made Public Domain
April 29th Sprechen Sie Sassy?
April 28th iTunes Music Store Launched; Record Execs Wet Themselves
April 27th Justice Department Blocks Microsoft Purchase of Intuit
April 27th Commercial Computer Mouse Introduced
April 26th Buried E.T. Cartridges Discovered by Archeologists
April 26th Chernobyl Virus Melts Down PCs
April 25th Do You Yahoo?
April 25th Hubble Deployed
April 24th A Crazy Day for Apple
April 23rd First YouTube Video
April 22nd Mosaic 1.0
April 21st IBM Licenses PC Patents
April 20th Windows 98 is Plug and … Whoa?
April 20th Demonstration of First Practical Electron Microscope
April 19th Moore’s Law Published
April 19th Zoom Lenses Come to TV
April 18th First Megabit Chip in Commercial Product
April 18th Osborne Executive Introduced
April 17th Surveyor 3 Launched
April 16th Apple and Commodore
April 15th Marcel Brown Technology Services Born
April 15th PC Industry Born
April 15th GE Founded
April 14th Columbia Lands
April 14th The Titanic Could Have Been Worse
April 13th Metallica Loses Their Cool
April 13th Houston, We’ve Had a Problem
April 12th First Space Shuttle Launch
April 12th Who in the World is Ronald Wayne?
April 12th First Man in Space
April 11th Sculley Forces Out Jobs
April 11th The First Vertical Jet Flies
April 10th ENIAC Project Started
April 9th The Mercury Seven
April 8th John Sculley Joins Apple
April 8th Genesis of COBOL
April 7th RFC 1 Defines the Building Block of Internet Communication
April 7th IBM System 360 Changes the Industry Forever
April 6th Windows 3.1 Released
April 6th Pioneer 11 Launched
April 6th First Commercial Communications Satellite Launched
April 5th Could it be … SATAN?
April 5th Stupid Human Tricks in Surround Sound!
April 4th Netscape Born
April 4th Microsoft Formed
April 3rd The First Cell Phone Call
April 3rd First Spacecraft to Orbit Moon
April 2nd Microsoft’s First Hardware Product
April 2nd First Computerized Legal Search Service
April 1st Gmail Launched
April 1st A is for Apple
April 1st Internal Combustion Engine Patented
March 31st Free … Your … Mind
March 31st Microsoft Bob is Spawned
March 31st First Electrically Lighted City
March 30th UNIVAC Unveiled
March 30th Invention of the Phototransistor
March 29th TRS-80 Model 100 Introduced
March 29th First Flyby of Mercury
March 28th Kodak Releases DC40
March 28th First Gyroscope Controlled Rocket Launch
March 27th 20-Year Old Bill Gates Gives Address
March 27th First Long Distance Phone Call
March 26th Bill Gates Announces First Tablet PCs
March 26th Melissa Unleashes
March 26th First Personal Computer Convention
March 25th Twister First Movie on DVD
March 25th Space Shuttle Columbia Delivered
March 24th Mac OS X is Born
March 24th Popov’s First Public Wireless Transmission
March 23rd Mir Falls From the Sky
March 23rd The First Commercial Elevator
March 22nd First Pentiums Shipped
March 22nd Frickin’ Laser Beams Patented
March 21st The World’s First Tweet
March 21st Launch of Ranger 9
March 20th Yahoo Acquires Flickr
March 20th The First Battery
March 19th IBM.com and sun.com Registered
March 19th Sydney Harbor Bridge Opens
March 18th Arcade Game of Many Firsts
March 18th The First Practical Electric Razor
March 17th Apple Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
March 17th Vanguard 1 Launched
March 16th Mac OS X Server 1.0 Released
March 16th The First Wiki
March 16th First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launched
March 15th First Internet Domain Registered
March 15th First Newsletter of the Homebrew Computer Club
March 14th Bell Labs Announces TRADIC
March 14th First Use of Word “Photography”
March 13th Microsoft Goes Public
March 13th A Comet? No, that’s Uranus!
March 12th Hulu is Unleashed
March 12th First Proposal for a World Wide Web
March 11th NFL Adopts Instant Replay … For The First Time
March 11th Paper is Shown To Emperor of China, Paper Industry is Launched
March 10th Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reaches Red Planet
March 10th Dot-Com Bubble Peaks Out
March 10th Mr. Bell Calls Mr. Watson
March 9th I Invented the Internet
March 9th Apple, IBM, Motorola form PowerOpen Association
March 8th IBM Introduces PC-XT
March 8th Compact Disc Introduced
March 8th The First Computer Operating System
March 7th First Transatlantic Telephone Call
March 7th Bell Receives Patent for Telephone
March 6th NASA Launches Kepler
March 6th SCO Sues IBM; Threatens Linux Users
March 6th Michelangelo Strikes
March 5th Yahoo! Officially Launches
March 5th Sinclair ZX81 Launched
March 5th Homebrew Computer Club Holds First Meeting
March 4th The World’s First Internet Election
March 4th Japan Goes Crazy for Playstation 2!
March 4th First Cray Supercomputer Shipped
March 3rd Michael Dell Steps Down as CEO
March 3rd Magnavox Licenses Home Video Games
March 2nd Gates Admits Netscape Lockout
March 2nd Pioneer 10 Launched
March 2nd Concorde Makes Maiden Flight
March 1st Netscape Discontinued
March 1st On The First Day …
March 1st First Spacecraft to Land On Another Planet
February 28th Disney CEO Claims Apple Encourages Theft
February 28th First Color TVs Go on Sale
February 28th AT&T Incorporated
February 27th CompUSA Restructures
February 27th V.92 Introduced
February 27th Apple Discontinues the Newton
February 26th The First Web Browser Introduced
February 26th First Saturn 1B Rocket Launch
February 26th RADAR Demonstrated for First Time
February 25th Apple Sells 10 Billionth Song
February 25th First Check Photographing Device Patented
February 25th Electric Motor Patented
February 24th Final Mission of Space Shuttle Discovery
February 24th First Phone and TV Satellite Relays
February 24th “First” US Rocket to Reach Outer Space
February 23rd First Mobile Phone Virus
February 23rd Radio Gets Controlled
February 23rd Holy Type!
February 22nd First Internet Only Bank
February 22nd Dolly Unveiled
February 22nd First Presidential Radio Address
February 21st First Telephone Book Published
February 21st First Burglar Alarm Installed
February 21st Edison Patents Light Switch, Sort Of
February 20th Space Station Mir is Launched
February 20th John Glen Becomes First American to Orbit Earth
February 19th HD DVD Surrenders
February 19th In the Beginning Apple.com Was Created
February 19th First Warrant to Search Computer Data
February 18th First Flight of Space Shuttle – Just Not Into Space
February 18th First Cable TV Test
February 18th First Airmail Delivery
February 17th Windows 2000 Introduced
February 17th QuickTake 100 Launched
February 17th First Weather Satellite Launched
February 16th IBM Portable PC Introduced
February 16th The First BBS Goes Live
February 16th 911 Begins Service
February 15th Windows Refund Day
February 15th They Put the “You” in “Tube”
February 15th Hacker Mitnick Arrested
February 15th ENIAC Dedicated
February 14th First Modern GPS Satellite Launches
February 14th The First Electronic Computer Unveiled
February 14th The Birth of IBM
February 14th Telephone Patented By Two Men
February 13th 1234567890 Day!
February 13th Apollo Computer Incorporated
February 13th Motion Picture Projector Patented
February 12th Spacecraft Lands on an Asteroid
February 12th She Was Also Famous for Tennis
February 12th First Long Distance Telephone Call Made
February 11th First Use of the Word “Podcast”
February 11th Discovery Launches to Service Hubble
February 11th Titan-Centaur Fails First Test, Yet Mission Successful
February 11th Osumi!
February 10th Satellites Collide!
February 10th A Computer Defeats a World Chess Champion
February 10th Galileo Flies by Venus
February 9th Introduction of the Bandai Pippin
February 9th First Flight of Boeing 747
February 9th First Flight of Boeing 727
February 8th Google Maps is Unleashed
February 8th 24 Hours in Cyberspace
February 8th A Patent is Filed for the Harvard Mark I
February 7th Kasparov Redeems Himself … Sort Of
February 7th First Untethered Space Walk
February 7th DAF 600 Unveiled
February 6th V.90 Announced
February 6th The Woz Leaves Apple
February 6th First Golf Ball Hit on Moon
February 5th First Victoria’s Secret Webcast
February 5th Apollo 14 Lands on Moon
February 5th First Automatic Don’t Walk Sign
February 4th Facebook is Born
February 4th The Sims Released
February 4th Apple Acquires NeXT; Steve Jobs Returns to Apple
February 3rd First Woman to Pilot the Space Shuttle
February 3rd Genesis of “Vaporware”
February 3rd First Soft Landing on Moon
February 2nd Amelio Becomes Apple CEO
February 2nd TRS-80 Born
February 2nd First Polygraph Used
February 1st Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
February 1st 286 Processor Introduced
February 1st First Working Prototype of Rotary Engine
February 1st First Movie Studio Completed
January 31st SBC Buys AT&T; The Learner Becomes the Master
January 31st First Ape into Space
January 31st The First American Satellite Launches Into Orbit
January 30th Windows Vista Released; Users Exodus
January 30th First Super Bowl in HD
January 30th First Computer Virus Written
January 29th Phobos II Orbits Mars
January 29th Tetris Sneaks Into the US
January 29th Karl Benz Patents Gas Automobile
January 28th Radio Shack Chooses Compaq
January 28th Yahoo! Buys GeoCities
January 28th Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
January 27th iPad Introduced
January 27th Jim Clark Leaves Silicon Graphics
January 27th Apollo 1 Tragedy
January 27th Edison Patents Incandescent Lamp
January 26th Compaq Purchases DEC
January 26th Lotus 1-2-3 Goes on Sale
January 26th Ranger 3 Launched
January 25th Opportunity Lands on Mars
January 25th First Transcontinental Phone Service
January 25th First Transcontinental Jet Flight
January 24th First Fly-By of Uranus
January 24th Macintosh Launched
January 24th Microwave Oven Patented
January 23rd Last Contact with Pioneer 10
January 23rd Java Released; Coffee Drinkers Confused
January 23rd First Bridge Over the Mississippi River
January 22nd 1984 Commercial Introduces the Macintosh
January 22nd First Lunar Module Test Launch
January 22nd First TV Station West of Mississippi
January 21st Twitter.com is Born
January 21st It Could Go at Least 88 MPH
January 21st Concorde Begins Commercial Flights
January 20th The Happy99 Worm Appears
January 20th Don’t Call a Lemming a Lemming
January 20th The Super Fight
January 19th BlackBerry Introduced
January 19th IBM Loses $5 Billion
January 19th Apple Lisa Introduced
January 19th Neon Lighting Tube Patented
January 18th The Superjumbo is Unveiled
January 18th Yahoo.com Registered
January 18th First Plane Landing on a Ship
January 17th Drudge Report Legitimizes Internet Reporting
January 17th Computer is Used in the Discovery of New Planets
January 17th Supreme Court Rules on Home VCR Recordings
January 16th Space Shuttle Columbia Launches for Final Time
January 16th Soyuz 4 & 5 Make History
January 15th Wikipedia Goes Online; Bookshelves Clear Up
January 15th NCSA Opens
January 15th IETF Meets For the First Time
January 15th The Birth of Video Games
January 14th Steve Jobs Goes on Hiatus
January 14th Probe Lands on Titan
January 14th First Car Built on Assembly Line
January 13th Bill Gates Steps Aside
January 13th Friday the 13th Virus Gets Brits
January 13th First Public Radio Performance
January 13th Adding Machine Patented
January 12th Apple Posts Major Loss
January 12th Boeing 747 Flies for First Time
January 12th 911 is Born
January 11th iPod Shuffle Introduced
January 11th Telstar 401 Satellite Fails Mysteriously
January 11th Three Spacecraft Dock Together For First Time
January 11th First Solo Flight From Hawaii to California
January 10th Apple Ships Intel Inside
January 10th Moon Rocket Announced
January 10th First RADAR Contact With Moon
January 10th Maiden Flight of First Flying Boat
January 10th First Subway Opens in London
January 9th Bitcoin Launched
January 9th Apple – Not Just For Computers Anymore
January 9th Apple Introduces iPhone
January 9th Apple Introduces iTunes
January 9th “First” Motion Picture Film to Receive Copyright
January 8th Record Stay in Space Begins
January 8th AT&T Settles; Agrees to Breakup
January 8th Luna 21 Launches
January 8th Punched Card Calculator Patented
January 7th The Last Surveyor Launches
January 7th First Day of Transatlantic Phone Service
January 6th iPod Mini Introduced
January 6th Mac OS X Introduced
January 6th First 1 MB Memory Chip
January 6th Morse Demonstrates Telegraph
January 5th Nexus is the One
January 5th Richard Stallman Begins Work on GNU
January 5th Space Shuttle Given Green Light
January 5th The First Color Newsreel
January 5th Construction Begins on Golden Gate
January 4th Spirit Lands on Mars
January 4th First Handheld Scientific Calculator
January 4th Luna 1 Reaches Moon
January 4th Sputnik 1 Falls
January 4th 4 Wheeled Skates Patented in US
January 3rd The Genesis of Bitcoin
January 3rd Mars Polar Lander Launched
January 3rd Motorola StarTAC Introduced
January 3rd Apple Computer Grows Up
January 3rd First Electric Watch Introduced
January 2nd Stardust Flies By Comet Wild 2
January 2nd Software Arts Incorporated
January 2nd Luna 1 Launch
January 2nd First Moon Photo
January 1st Y2K Comes and Goes
January 1st Domain Name System Created; .com is Born!
January 1st The Breakup of Ma Bell
January 1st The Dawn of the Internet
January 1st The Beginning of Time?
January 1st ENIAC Completed
January 1st Hewlett and Packard Formalize Partnership
January 1st First Ball Drop in Times Square, NYC

2024

February 29th Apple Passes $500 Billion Valuation
February 29th Tokyo Skytree Completed