2 * Interesting computer dates collected at Infodrom
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10 #ifndef _calendar_infodrom_computer_
11 #define _calendar_infodrom_computer_
14 Dec 12 Larry Wall demonstrates Perl vor, 1987
15 Dec 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 1.000, 1987
16 Jun 5 Larry Wall releases Perl 2.000, 1988
17 Oct 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 3.000, 1989
18 Mar 21 Larry Wall releases Perl 4.000, 1991
19 Oct 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.000, 1994
20 Mar 13 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.001, 1995
21 Sep 11 Randal Schwarz becomes just another convicted Perl hacker, 1995
22 Sep 25 Tim Bunce posts the first module list with CPAN as central repository, 1995
23 Feb 29 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.002, 1996
24 Jul 22 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.005, 1998
25 Oct 9 Larry Wall is awarded the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software, 1998
28 Feb 20 Guido van Rossum announces Python 0.9pl1, 1991
29 Oct 16 Guido van Rossum releases Python 2.0, 2000
30 Jun 16 Python 2.0.1's GPL-compatibility is official, 2001
31 Jul 30 Python 2.3 released, 2003
34 Oct 14 Matthias Ettrich starts the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), 1996
35 Jul 12 KDE 1.0 released, 1998
36 Mar 4 KDE 1.1 released, 1999
37 Oct 23 KDE 2.0 released, 2000
38 Nov 13 KDE League formed, 2000
39 Feb 26 KDE 2.1 released, 2001
40 Aug 15 KDE 2.2 released, 2001
41 Aug 28 KOffice 1.1 released, 2001
42 Apr 3 KDE 3.0 released, 2002
43 Sep 10 KOffice 1.2 released, 2002
44 Jan 28 KDE 3.1 released, 2003
47 Jan 10 Donald E. Knuth born, 1938
48 Jan 11 Spivak announces AMS-TeX at the joint math meetings, 1982
49 Dec 3 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 1.0, 1983
50 Nov 27 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 2.0, 1985
51 Mar 26 First page printed with dvisw (early DVI printer driver for the Amiga), 1986
52 Apr 14 DANTE e.V. founded, 1989
53 Aug 21 Leslie Lamport turns maintenance of LaTeX to Frank Mittelbach, 1989
54 Mar 25 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 3.0, 1990
55 Mar 25 LaTeX 2.09 final released, 1992
56 Jun 1 LaTeX2e released, 1994
58 /* Free Software dates */
59 Mar 16 Richard M. Stallman born, 1953
60 Dec 28 Linus Benedict Torvalds born, 1969
61 Mar 10 Georg Christof Florian Greve born, 1973
62 Sep 27 Richard Stallman starts the GNU system, 1983
63 Mar 10 FSF Europe gegründet, 2001
66 Aug 25 First note about Linux in comp.os.minix, 1991
67 Sep 17 Linux 0.01 released, 1991
68 Sep 2 S.u.S.E. GmbH founded, 1992
69 Mar 13 Linux 1.0 released, 1994
70 Mar 7 Linux 1.2 released, 1995
71 Jun 9 Linux 2.0 released, 1996
72 Dec 5 Patricia Miranda Torvalds born, 1996
73 Jan 26 Linux 2.2 released, 1999
74 Nov 20 Celeste Amanda Torvalds born, 2000
75 Jan 2 Linux 2.4 released, 2001
76 Aug 29 Kernel developer Leonard N. Zubkoff died in helicopter crash, 2002
78 /* Notably Internet dates */
79 Apr 7 First RFC published, 1969
80 Dec 10 Birthday of the Arpanet (predecessor of the Internet), 1969
81 May 22 Bob Metcalfe releases memo "The Ether Network", 1973
82 Dec 4 First specification of TCP/IP, 1974
83 Apr 12 Kevin MacKenzie invents emoticons aka smilies, 1979
84 Sep 19 Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS, 1982
85 Nov 5 Aufnahme von .de in der IANA-Datenbank, 1986
86 Nov 2 Robert Tappan Morris infects the net with the infamous worm (RFC 1135), 1888
87 Nov 2 First Internet worm hit the net, 1988
88 Apr 22 University of Illinois released a little program called Mosaic, 1993
89 Oct 16 Jonathan Postel died, 1998
90 Sep 1 Richard W. Stevens died, 1999
92 /* Notably WWW dates */
93 Nov 12 Hypertext first discussed, 1990
94 Feb 26 Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the WWW, 1991
95 May 17 Hypertext officially introduced at CERN, 1991
96 Oct 28 Tim Berners-Lee creates mailing list www-talk, 1991
97 Dec 12 Paul F. Kunz installs America's first WWW server on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's IBM mainframe, 1991
98 Apr 23 NCSA releases Mosaic 1.0, 1993
99 Apr 30 CERN releases code of libwww, httpd and www freely, 1993
102 Apr 17 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM System/360, 1966
103 Aug 12 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC-5150 in New York, 1981
104 Mar 8 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC/XT-5160, 1983
105 Sep 26 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM XT/286 PC-5162, 1986
106 Apr 2 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PS/2 (Model 30/60/80), 1987
107 Jul 30 IBM, Motorola, and Apple's PowerPC alliance is announced, 1991
108 Mar 31 OS/2 2.0 released, 1992
111 Aug 11 Steve Wozniak (Apple) born, 1950
112 Feb 25 Steve Jobs born, 1955
113 Apr 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, 1976
116 Sep 12 Gründung des CCC in der Kommune 1 in den Räumen der "tageszeitung" in Berlin, 1981
117 Jul 29 Wau Holland (CCC) im Alter von 49 Jahren gestorben, 2001
119 /* Computer history */
120 Jan 31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
121 Mar 4 First Cray-I in Los Alamos, 1976
122 May 21 DEC PDP-8 released, 1965
123 Apr 6 Cray Research founded, 1972
124 Apr 28 Zilog Z80 released, 1978
125 Jan 29 Scientists at Bell Labs demonstrate the first all-optical processor, 1990
127 /* Misc computer personalities */
128 Jun 22 Konrad Zuse born, 1910
129 May 11 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra born in Rotterdam, 1930
130 Jun 8 Alan Turing died (self-induced), 1954
131 Jul 18 Robert Noyce und Gordon Moore found intel, 1968
132 Apr 14 Phil Katz (PKWare) died at the age of 37, 2000
133 Dec 19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
134 Aug 6 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in Neuren, 2002
136 /* Misc other dates */
137 Apr 3 First mobile telephone call (Motorola - Bell Labs), 1973
138 Jun 19 The first version of the X Window System is developed jointly by MIT Project Athena and DEC, 1984
139 May 23 Sun launches Java, 1995
141 #endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_computer_ */