2 * Interesting computer dates collected at Infodrom
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10 #ifndef _calendar_infodrom_computer_
11 #define _calendar_infodrom_computer_
16 Dec 12 Larry Wall demonstrates Perl vor, 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
30 Feb 20 Guido van Rossum announces Python 0.9pl1, 1991
31 Oct 16 Guido van Rossum releases Python 2.0, 2000
32 Jun 16 Python 2.0.1's GPL-compatibility is official, 2001
33 Jul 30 Python 2.3 released, 2003
36 Oct 14 Matthias Ettrich starts the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), 1996
37 Jul 12 KDE 1.0 released, 1998
38 Mar 4 KDE 1.1 released, 1999
39 Oct 23 KDE 2.0 released, 2000
40 Nov 13 KDE League formed, 2000
41 Feb 26 KDE 2.1 released, 2001
42 Aug 15 KDE 2.2 released, 2001
43 Aug 28 KOffice 1.1 released, 2001
44 Apr 3 KDE 3.0 released, 2002
45 Sep 10 KOffice 1.2 released, 2002
46 Jan 28 KDE 3.1 released, 2003
49 Jan 10 Donald E. Knuth born, 1938
50 Jan 11 Spivak announces AMS-TeX at the joint math meetings, 1982
51 Dec 3 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 1.0, 1983
52 Nov 27 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 2.0, 1985
53 Mar 26 First page printed with dvisw (early DVI printer driver for the Amiga), 1986
54 Apr 14 DANTE e.V. founded, 1989
55 Aug 21 Leslie Lamport turns maintenance of LaTeX to Frank Mittelbach, 1989
56 Mar 25 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 3.0, 1990
57 Mar 25 LaTeX 2.09 final released, 1992
58 Jun 1 LaTeX2e released, 1994
60 /* Free Software dates */
61 Mar 16 Richard M. Stallman born, 1953
62 Dec 28 Linus Benedict Torvalds born, 1969
63 Mar 10 Georg Christof Florian Greve born, 1973
64 Sep 27 Richard Stallman starts the GNU system, 1983
65 Jan 5 Richard Stallman resigns from MIT, 1984
66 Mar 10 FSF Europe founded, 2001
69 Aug 25 First note about Linux in comp.os.minix, 1991
70 Sep 17 Linux 0.01 released, 1991
71 Sep 2 S.u.S.E. GmbH founded, 1992
72 Mar 13 Linux 1.0 released, 1994
73 Mar 7 Linux 1.2 released, 1995
74 Jun 9 Linux 2.0 released, 1996
75 Dec 5 Patricia Miranda Torvalds born, 1996
76 Jan 26 Linux 2.2 released, 1999
77 Nov 20 Celeste Amanda Torvalds born, 2000
78 Jan 2 Linux 2.4 released, 2001
79 Aug 29 Kernel developer Leonard N. Zubkoff died in helicopter crash, 2002
81 /* Notably Internet dates */
82 Apr 7 First RFC published, 1969
83 Dec 10 Birthday of the Arpanet (predecessor of the Internet), 1969
84 May 22 Bob Metcalfe releases memo "The Ether Network", 1973
85 Dec 4 First specification of TCP/IP, 1974
86 Apr 12 Kevin MacKenzie invents emoticons aka smilies, 1979
87 Sep 19 Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS, 1982
88 Nov 5 Aufnahme von .de in der IANA-Datenbank, 1986
89 Nov 2 Robert Tappan Morris infects the net with the infamous worm (RFC 1135), 1988
90 Nov 2 First Internet worm hit the net, 1988
91 Apr 22 University of Illinois released a little program called Mosaic, 1993
92 Oct 16 Jonathan Postel died, 1998
93 Sep 1 Richard W. Stevens died, 1999
95 /* Notably WWW dates */
96 Nov 12 Hypertext first discussed, 1990
97 Feb 26 Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the WWW, 1991
98 May 17 Hypertext officially introduced at CERN, 1991
99 Oct 28 Tim Berners-Lee creates mailing list www-talk, 1991
100 Dec 12 Paul F. Kunz installs America's first WWW server on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's IBM mainframe, 1991
101 Apr 23 NCSA releases Mosaic 1.0, 1993
102 Apr 30 CERN releases code of libwww, httpd and www freely, 1993
105 Apr 7 "Big Blue" (IBM) demonstrates the IBM System/360, 1964
106 Apr 17 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM System/360, 1966
107 Aug 12 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC-5150 in New York, 1981
108 Mar 8 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC/XT-5160, 1983
109 Sep 26 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM XT/286 PC-5162, 1986
110 Apr 2 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PS/2 (Model 30/60/80), 1987
111 Jul 30 IBM, Motorola, and Apple's PowerPC alliance is announced, 1991
112 Mar 31 OS/2 2.0 released, 1992
115 Aug 11 Steve Wozniak (Apple) born, 1950
116 Feb 25 Steve Jobs born, 1955
117 Apr 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, 1976
120 Sep 12 Foundation of CCC in Kommune 1 in the rooms of the "tageszeitung" in Berlin, 1981
121 Jul 29 Wau Holland (CCC) im Alter von 49 Jahren gestorben, 2001
123 /* Computer history */
124 Dec 28 Johann von Neumann born, 1903
125 Jan 31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
126 Mar 4 First Cray-I in Los Alamos, 1976
127 May 21 DEC PDP-8 released, 1965
128 Apr 6 Cray Research founded, 1972
129 Apr 28 Zilog Z80 released, 1978
130 Jan 29 Scientists at Bell Labs demonstrate the first all-optical processor, 1990
132 /* Misc computer personalities */
133 Jun 22 Konrad Zuse born, 1910
134 Jan 8 Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM founder) born in Dayton, Ohio, 1914
135 Dec 7 Noam Chomsky born, 1928
136 May 11 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra born in Rotterdam, 1930
137 Jun 8 Alan Turing died (self-induced), 1954
138 Jul 18 Robert Noyce und Gordon Moore found intel, 1968
139 Apr 14 Phil Katz (PKWare) died at the age of 37, 2000
140 Dec 19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
141 Aug 6 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in Neuren, 2002
143 /* Misc other dates */
144 Apr 3 First mobile telephone call (Motorola - Bell Labs), 1973
145 Sep 2 German Telekom starts Datex-J service alias BTX, 1983
146 Jun 19 The first version of the X Window System is developed jointly by MIT Project Athena and DEC, 1984
147 May 23 Sun launches Java, 1995
149 #endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_computer_ */