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, 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
31 Feb 20 Guido van Rossum announces Python 0.9pl1, 1991
32 Oct 16 Guido van Rossum releases Python 2.0, 2000
33 Jun 16 Python 2.0.1's GPL-compatibility is official, 2001
34 Jul 30 Python 2.3 released, 2003
35 Nov 30 Python 2.4 released, 2004
36 Mar 30 Python 2.4.1 released, 2005
39 Oct 14 Matthias Ettrich starts the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), 1996
40 Jul 12 KDE 1.0 released, 1998
41 Mar 4 KDE 1.1 released, 1999
42 Oct 23 KDE 2.0 released, 2000
43 Nov 13 KDE League formed, 2000
44 Feb 26 KDE 2.1 released, 2001
45 Aug 15 KDE 2.2 released, 2001
46 Aug 28 KOffice 1.1 released, 2001
47 Apr 3 KDE 3.0 released, 2002
48 Sep 10 KOffice 1.2 released, 2002
49 Jan 28 KDE 3.1 released, 2003
50 Aug 19 KDE 3.3 released, 2004
51 Mar 16 KDE 3.4 released, 2005
54 Jan 10 Donald E. Knuth born, 1938
55 Jan 11 Spivak announces AMS-TeX at the joint math meetings, 1982
56 Dec 3 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 1.0, 1983
57 Nov 27 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 2.0, 1985
58 Mar 26 First page printed with dvisw (early DVI printer driver for the Amiga), 1986
59 Apr 14 DANTE e.V. founded, 1989
60 Aug 21 Leslie Lamport turns maintenance of LaTeX to Frank Mittelbach, 1989
61 Mar 25 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 3.0, 1990
62 Mar 25 LaTeX 2.09 final released, 1992
63 Jun 1 LaTeX2e released, 1994
65 /* Free Software dates */
66 Mar 16 Richard M. Stallman born, 1953
67 Dec 28 Linus Benedict Torvalds born, 1969
68 Mar 10 Georg Christof Florian Greve born, 1973
69 Sep 27 Richard Stallman starts the GNU system, 1983
70 Jan 5 Richard Stallman resigns from MIT, 1984
71 Mar 10 FSF Europe founded, 2001
74 Aug 25 First note about Linux in comp.os.minix, 1991
75 Sep 17 Linux 0.01 released, 1991
76 Sep 2 S.u.S.E. GmbH founded, 1992
77 Mar 13 Linux 1.0 released, 1994
78 Mar 7 Linux 1.2 released, 1995
79 Jun 9 Linux 2.0 released, 1996
80 Dec 5 Patricia Miranda Torvalds born, 1996
81 Jan 26 Linux 2.2 released, 1999
82 Nov 20 Celeste Amanda Torvalds born, 2000
83 Jan 2 Linux 2.4 released, 2001
84 Aug 29 Kernel developer Leonard N. Zubkoff died in helicopter crash, 2002
86 /* Notably Internet dates */
87 Apr 7 First RFC published, 1969
88 Dec 10 Birthday of the Arpanet (predecessor of the Internet), 1969
89 May 22 Bob Metcalfe releases memo "The Ether Network", 1973
90 Dec 4 First specification of TCP/IP, 1974
91 Apr 12 Kevin MacKenzie invents emoticons aka smilies, 1979
92 Sep 19 Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS, 1982
93 Nov 5 Aufnahme von .de in der IANA-Datenbank, 1986
94 Nov 2 Robert Tappan Morris infects the net with the infamous worm (RFC 1135), 1988
95 Nov 2 First Internet worm hit the net, 1988
96 Apr 22 University of Illinois released a little program called Mosaic, 1993
97 Oct 16 Jonathan Postel died, 1998
98 Sep 1 Richard W. Stevens died, 1999
100 /* Notably WWW dates */
101 Nov 12 Hypertext first discussed, 1990
102 Feb 26 Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the WWW, 1991
103 May 17 Hypertext officially introduced at CERN, 1991
104 Oct 28 Tim Berners-Lee creates mailing list www-talk, 1991
105 Dec 12 Paul F. Kunz installs America's first WWW server on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's IBM mainframe, 1991
106 Apr 23 NCSA releases Mosaic 1.0, 1993
107 Apr 30 CERN releases code of libwww, httpd and www freely, 1993
110 Apr 7 "Big Blue" (IBM) demonstrates the IBM System/360, 1964
111 Apr 17 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM System/360, 1966
112 Aug 12 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC-5150 in New York, 1981
113 Mar 8 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC/XT-5160, 1983
114 Sep 26 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM XT/286 PC-5162, 1986
115 Apr 2 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PS/2 (Model 30/60/80), 1987
116 Jul 30 IBM, Motorola, and Apple's PowerPC alliance is announced, 1991
117 Mar 31 OS/2 2.0 released, 1992
120 Aug 11 Steve Wozniak (Apple) born, 1950
121 Feb 25 Steve Jobs born, 1955
122 Apr 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, 1976
123 Feb 26 Jef Raskin 'Father of the Macintosh' dies, 2005
126 Sep 12 Foundation of CCC in Kommune 1 in the rooms of the "tageszeitung" in Berlin, 1981
127 Jul 29 Wau Holland (CCC) im Alter von 49 Jahren gestorben, 2001
129 /* Computer history */
130 Jan 31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
131 Mar 4 First Cray-I in Los Alamos, 1976
132 May 21 DEC PDP-8 released, 1965
133 Apr 6 Cray Research founded, 1972
134 Oct 25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1977
135 Apr 28 Zilog Z80 released, 1978
136 Jan 29 Scientists at Bell Labs demonstrate the first all-optical processor, 1990
138 /* Misc computer personalities */
139 Dec 28 Johann von Neumann born, 1903
140 Jun 22 Konrad Zuse born, 1910
141 Jan 8 Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM founder) born in Dayton, Ohio, 1914
142 Dec 3 John Backus born in Philadelphia, 1924
143 Dec 7 Noam Chomsky born, 1928
144 May 11 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra born in Rotterdam, 1930
145 Jun 8 Alan Turing died (self-induced), 1954
146 Jul 18 Robert Noyce und Gordon Moore found intel, 1968
147 Apr 14 Phil Katz (PKWare) died at the age of 37, 2000
148 Dec 19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
149 Aug 6 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in Neuren, 2002
150 Jun 22 Bob Bemer (ESC key, ASCII) died, 2004
152 /* Misc other dates */
153 Apr 3 First mobile telephone call (Motorola - Bell Labs), 1973
154 Sep 2 German Telekom starts Datex-J service alias BTX, 1983
155 Jun 19 The first version of the X Window System is developed jointly by
156 MIT Project Athena and DEC, 1984
157 May 23 Sun launches Java, 1995
158 May 1 First two BASIC programs run simultaneously on a GE-225 in
159 Darthmouth Colleges, 1964
161 #endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_computer_ */