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2025
- June 15th IBM is Incorporated as CTR
- 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 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 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 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 Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys Lotus
- 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 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 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
- 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 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
- May 31st All Your Base Are Belong To Us
- May 30th First Automobile Accident
- 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 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 19th Apple Cube Store Opens in NYC
- May 19th Apple Debuts Retail Stores
- May 19th Apple III Introduced
- 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 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 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 3rd Dell Founded
- 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 27th Commercial Computer Mouse Introduced
- 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 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 6th Windows 3.1 Released
- April 6th Pioneer 11 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 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 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 10th Dot-Com Bubble Peaks Out
- March 10th Mr. Bell Calls Mr. Watson
- March 9th I Invented the Internet
- 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 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 …
- 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
- February 29th Apple Passes $500 Billion Valuation
- February 29th Tokyo Skytree Completed
