2 * Interesting computer dates collected at Infodrom
4 * http://cvs.infodrom.org/calendar/calendar.infodrom.computer?cvsroot=infodrom
5 * :pserver:anonymous@cvs.infodrom.org:/var/cvs/infodrom co calendar/calendar.infodrom.computer
10 #ifndef _calendar_infodrom_computer_
11 #define _calendar_infodrom_computer_
16 Dec 12 Larry Wall demonstrates Perl, 1987
17 Dec 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 1.000, 1987
18 Jun 5 Larry Wall releases Perl 2.000, 1988
19 Oct 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 3.000, 1989
20 Mar 21 Larry Wall releases Perl 4.000, 1991
21 Oct 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.000, 1994
22 Mar 13 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.001, 1995
23 Sep 11 Randal Schwarz becomes just another convicted Perl hacker, 1995
24 Sep 25 Tim Bunce posts the first module list with CPAN as central repository, 1995
25 Feb 29 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.002, 1996
26 Jul 22 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.005, 1998
27 Oct 9 Larry Wall is awarded the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software, 1998
28 Jul 23 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.8.5, 2004
29 Dec 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.10, 2007
32 Feb 20 Guido van Rossum announces Python 0.9pl1, 1991
33 Oct 16 Guido van Rossum releases Python 2.0, 2000
34 Jun 16 Python 2.0.1's GPL-compatibility is official, 2001
35 Jul 30 Python 2.3 released, 2003
36 Nov 30 Python 2.4 released, 2004
37 Mar 30 Python 2.4.1 released, 2005
38 Sep 19 Python 2.5 released, 2006
39 Dec 03 Python 3.0 released, 2008
40 Jun 27 Python 3.1 released, 2009
43 Oct 14 Matthias Ettrich starts the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), 1996
44 Jul 12 KDE 1.0 released, 1998
45 Mar 4 KDE 1.1 released, 1999
46 Oct 23 KDE 2.0 released, 2000
47 Nov 13 KDE League formed, 2000
48 Feb 26 KDE 2.1 released, 2001
49 Aug 15 KDE 2.2 released, 2001
50 Aug 28 KOffice 1.1 released, 2001
51 Apr 3 KDE 3.0 released, 2002
52 Sep 10 KOffice 1.2 released, 2002
53 Jan 28 KDE 3.1 released, 2003
54 Aug 19 KDE 3.3 released, 2004
55 Mar 16 KDE 3.4 released, 2005
56 Jul 29 KDE 3.4.2 Released, 2005
57 Nov 29 KDE 3.5 released, 2005
58 Oct 17 KOffice 1.6 released, 2006
60 /* GNOME and Gtk history */
61 Aug 15 GNOME first mentioned in mail, 1997
62 Nov 21 GIMP first released, 1995
63 Aug 14 GTK+ 2.8 released, 2005
64 Sep 7 GNOME 2.12 released, 2005
65 Mar 17 GNOME 2.14 released, 2006
66 Sep 9 GNOME 2.16 released, 2006
67 Mar 14 GNOME 2.18 released, 2007
70 Jan 10 Donald E. Knuth born, 1938
71 Jan 11 Spivak announces AMS-TeX at the joint math meetings, 1982
72 Dec 3 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 1.0, 1983
73 Nov 27 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 2.0, 1985
74 Mar 26 First page printed with dvisw (early DVI printer driver for the Amiga), 1986
75 Apr 14 DANTE e.V. founded, 1989
76 Aug 21 Leslie Lamport turns maintenance of LaTeX to Frank Mittelbach, 1989
77 Mar 25 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 3.0, 1990
78 Mar 25 LaTeX 2.09 final released, 1992
79 Jun 1 LaTeX2e released, 1994
81 /* Free Software dates */
82 Mar 16 Richard M. Stallman born, 1953
83 Dec 28 Linus Benedict Torvalds born, 1969
84 Mar 10 Georg Christof Florian Greve born, 1973
85 Sep 27 Richard Stallman starts the GNU system, 1983
86 Jan 5 Richard Stallman resigns from MIT, 1984
87 Dec 20 GnuPG 0.0.0 released, 1997
88 Mar 10 FSF Europe founded, 2001
89 Jun 29 GPLv3 released, 2007
90 Dec 17 Flightgear 1.0 released, 2007
91 Dec 20 Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 released, 2007
92 Mar 11 GCC 4.3 released, 2008
95 Aug 25 First note about Linux in comp.os.minix, 1991
96 Sep 17 Linux 0.01 released, 1991
97 Sep 2 S.u.S.E. GmbH founded, 1992
98 Mar 13 Linux 1.0 released, 1994
99 Mar 7 Linux 1.2 released, 1995
100 Jun 9 Linux 2.0 released, 1996
101 Dec 5 Patricia Miranda Torvalds born, 1996
102 Jan 26 Linux 2.2 released, 1999
103 Nov 20 Celeste Amanda Torvalds born, 2000
104 Jan 2 Linux 2.4 released, 2001
105 Aug 29 Kernel developer Leonard N. Zubkoff died in helicopter crash, 2002
106 Dec 17 Linux 2.6 released, 2003
108 /* FreeDOS history */
109 Sep 3 FreeDOS 1.0 released, 2006
111 /* Notably Internet dates */
112 Apr 7 First RFC published, 1969
113 Dec 10 Birthday of the Arpanet (predecessor of the Internet), 1969
114 May 22 Bob Metcalfe releases memo "The Ether Network", 1973
115 Dec 4 First specification of TCP/IP, 1974
116 Apr 12 Kevin MacKenzie invents emoticons aka smilies, 1979
117 Sep 19 Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS, 1982
118 Nov 5 Aufnahme von .de in der IANA-Datenbank, 1986
119 Nov 2 Robert Tappan Morris infects the net with the infamous worm (RFC 1135), 1988
120 Nov 2 First Internet worm hit the net, 1988
121 Apr 22 University of Illinois released a little program called Mosaic, 1993
122 Oct 16 Jonathan Postel died, 1998
123 Sep 1 Richard W. Stevens died, 1999
124 Jul 14 MP3 format announced, 1995
125 Mar 6 Ray Tomlinson died, 2016
127 /* Notably WWW dates */
128 Nov 12 Hypertext first discussed, 1990
129 Feb 26 Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the WWW, 1991
130 May 17 Hypertext officially introduced at CERN, 1991
131 Oct 28 Tim Berners-Lee creates mailing list www-talk, 1991
132 Dec 12 Paul F. Kunz installs America's first WWW server on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's IBM mainframe, 1991
133 Apr 23 NCSA releases Mosaic 1.0, 1993
134 Apr 30 CERN releases code of libwww, httpd and www freely, 1993
137 Sep 13 Introduction of the hard disk, 1956
138 Apr 7 "Big Blue" (IBM) demonstrates the IBM System/360, 1964
139 Apr 17 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM System/360, 1966
140 Aug 12 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC-5150 in New York, 1981
141 Mar 8 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC/XT-5160, 1983
142 Sep 26 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM XT/286 PC-5162, 1986
143 Apr 2 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PS/2 (Model 30/60/80), 1987
144 Jul 30 IBM, Motorola, and Apple's PowerPC alliance is announced, 1991
145 Mar 31 OS/2 2.0 released, 1992
148 Aug 11 Steve Wozniak (Apple) born, 1950
149 Feb 25 Steve Jobs born, 1955
150 Apr 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, 1976
151 Feb 26 Jef Raskin 'Father of the Macintosh' dies, 2005
154 Sep 12 Foundation of CCC in Kommune 1 in the rooms of the "tageszeitung" in Berlin, 1981
155 Jul 29 Wau Holland (CCC) im Alter von 49 Jahren gestorben, 2001
157 /* Computer history */
158 Jan 31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
159 Mar 4 First Cray-I in Los Alamos, 1976
160 May 21 DEC PDP-8 released, 1965
161 Apr 6 Cray Research founded, 1972
162 Oct 25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1977
163 Apr 28 Zilog Z80 released, 1978
164 Nov 20 Microsoft Windows 1.0 released, 1985
165 Jan 29 Scientists at Bell Labs demonstrate the first all-optical processor, 1990
166 Sep 25 Microsoft founded, 1975
167 Aug 17 First Audio CD produced by Polygram in Hannover, Germany, 1982
169 /* Misc computer personalities */
170 Dec 28 Johann von Neumann born, 1903
171 Jun 22 Konrad Zuse born, 1910
172 Jan 8 Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM founder) born in Dayton, Ohio, 1914
173 Dec 3 John Backus born in Philadelphia, 1924
174 Dec 7 Noam Chomsky born, 1928
175 May 11 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra born in Rotterdam, 1930
176 Jan 8 Joseph Weizenbaum born in Berlin, 1932
177 Jun 8 Alan Turing died (self-induced), 1954
178 Jul 18 Robert Noyce und Gordon Moore found intel, 1968
179 Apr 14 Phil Katz (PKWare) died at the age of 37, 2000
180 Dec 19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
181 Aug 6 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in Neuren, 2002
182 Jun 22 Bob Bemer (ESC key, ASCII) died, 2004
183 Sep 16 Rob 'lilo' Levin died after accident, 2006
184 Mar 6 Joseph Weizenbaum dies in Berlin, 2008
186 /* Misc other dates */
187 Apr 3 First mobile telephone call (Motorola - Bell Labs), 1973
188 Sep 2 German Telekom starts Datex-J service alias BTX, 1983
189 Jun 19 The first version of the X Window System is developed jointly by
190 MIT Project Athena and DEC, 1984
191 May 23 Sun launches Java, 1995
192 May 1 First two BASIC programs run simultaneously on a GE-225 in
193 Darthmouth Colleges, 1964
194 Dec 23 NetBSD 3.0 released, 2005
195 Aug 28 ReactOS 0.3.0 released, 2006
196 Nov 1 OpenBSD 4.0 released, 2006
197 Sep 21 PostgreSQL 9.0 released, 2010
199 #endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_computer_ */
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