CS History

20th February is an important day in Computer History as Ken Olsen was born on this day in 1926 and he is the man behind the World's first commercial computer and DEC.

Today (19th February) is an important day in Computer History as today the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD ended, the first warrant to search a computer was issued and several other historic events.

We covered some of the major events that took place on 18th February with respect to Computer history such as birth of Alessandro Volta, the man behind the first electric battery and the opening of the first ComputerLand franchise in 1977.

We covered some of the major events that took place on 17th February with respect to Computer history such as Blogger being acquired by Google, release of Windows 2000 and the birth of Jensen Huang (CEO of NVIDIA) and Thomas Watson (CEO of IBM).

Today (16th February) is a major day in Computer History as today the World's first Bulletin board system was launched and Ian Clarke was born who is behind FreeNet. These events shaped the communication on the Internet.

Today (15th February) is a great day in Computer History as Niklaus Wirth (man behind Pascal) was born along with other major events like launching of YouTube and arrest of Kevin Mitnick.

Today (14th February) is a great day in Computer History as the domain name of YouTube was registered, CTR was renamed to IBM and Christopher Sholes was born who is the man behind QWERTY keyboard.

On this day (13th February), major events took place like Google's first ever aquisition (in 2001) of Deaj, an online community. This day marks the birth of several great people like Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga), Robert Barton and William Shockley.

If you are born on this day (12 February), you should be proud and happy as such great people in Computer Science like Kathleen Antonelli, Raymond Kurzweil and Philip Zimmerman were born.

On this day (11 th February), major events took place that shaped the future of computing. The founders of Apple and GE were born on this day along with great theoretical computer scientists like Hamming and Post.

We covered some of the major events that took place on 10th February with respect to Computer history such as Deep Blue fighting with Garry Kasparov in 1996 and much more.