/* * Interesting computer dates collected at Infodrom * * http://cvs.infodrom.org/calendar/calendar.infodrom.computer?cvsroot=infodrom * :pserver:anonymous@cvs.infodrom.org:/var/cvs/infodrom co calendar/calendar.infodrom.computer * * $Id$ */ #ifndef _calendar_infodrom_computer_ #define _calendar_infodrom_computer_ /* Perl history */ Dec 12 Larry Wall demonstrates Perl, 1987 Dec 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 1.000, 1987 Jun 5 Larry Wall releases Perl 2.000, 1988 Oct 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 3.000, 1989 Mar 21 Larry Wall releases Perl 4.000, 1991 Oct 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.000, 1994 Mar 13 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.001, 1995 Sep 11 Randal Schwarz becomes just another convicted Perl hacker, 1995 Sep 25 Tim Bunce posts the first module list with CPAN as central repository, 1995 Feb 29 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.002, 1996 Jul 22 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.005, 1998 Oct 9 Larry Wall is awarded the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software, 1998 Jul 23 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.8.5, 2004 Dec 18 Larry Wall releases Perl 5.10, 2007 /* Python history */ Feb 20 Guido van Rossum announces Python 0.9pl1, 1991 Oct 16 Guido van Rossum releases Python 2.0, 2000 Jun 16 Python 2.0.1's GPL-compatibility is official, 2001 Jul 30 Python 2.3 released, 2003 Nov 30 Python 2.4 released, 2004 Mar 30 Python 2.4.1 released, 2005 Sep 19 Python 2.5 released, 2006 Dec 03 Python 3.0 released, 2008 Jun 27 Python 3.1 released, 2009 /* KDE history */ Oct 14 Matthias Ettrich starts the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), 1996 Jul 12 KDE 1.0 released, 1998 Mar 4 KDE 1.1 released, 1999 Oct 23 KDE 2.0 released, 2000 Nov 13 KDE League formed, 2000 Feb 26 KDE 2.1 released, 2001 Aug 15 KDE 2.2 released, 2001 Aug 28 KOffice 1.1 released, 2001 Apr 3 KDE 3.0 released, 2002 Sep 10 KOffice 1.2 released, 2002 Jan 28 KDE 3.1 released, 2003 Aug 19 KDE 3.3 released, 2004 Mar 16 KDE 3.4 released, 2005 Jul 29 KDE 3.4.2 Released, 2005 Nov 29 KDE 3.5 released, 2005 Oct 17 KOffice 1.6 released, 2006 /* GNOME and Gtk history */ Aug 15 GNOME first mentioned in mail, 1997 Nov 21 GIMP first released, 1995 Aug 14 GTK+ 2.8 released, 2005 Sep 7 GNOME 2.12 released, 2005 Mar 17 GNOME 2.14 released, 2006 Sep 9 GNOME 2.16 released, 2006 Mar 14 GNOME 2.18 released, 2007 /* LaTeX dates */ Jan 10 Donald E. Knuth born, 1938 Jan 11 Spivak announces AMS-TeX at the joint math meetings, 1982 Dec 3 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 1.0, 1983 Nov 27 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 2.0, 1985 Mar 26 First page printed with dvisw (early DVI printer driver for the Amiga), 1986 Apr 14 DANTE e.V. founded, 1989 Aug 21 Leslie Lamport turns maintenance of LaTeX to Frank Mittelbach, 1989 Mar 25 Donald E. Knuth releases TeX 3.0, 1990 Mar 25 LaTeX 2.09 final released, 1992 Jun 1 LaTeX2e released, 1994 /* Free Software dates */ Mar 16 Richard M. Stallman born, 1953 Dec 28 Linus Benedict Torvalds born, 1969 Mar 10 Georg Christof Florian Greve born, 1973 Sep 27 Richard Stallman starts the GNU system, 1983 Jan 5 Richard Stallman resigns from MIT, 1984 Dec 20 GnuPG 0.0.0 released, 1997 Mar 10 FSF Europe founded, 2001 Jun 29 GPLv3 released, 2007 Dec 17 Flightgear 1.0 released, 2007 Dec 20 Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 released, 2007 Mar 11 GCC 4.3 released, 2008 /* Linux history */ Aug 25 First note about Linux in comp.os.minix, 1991 Sep 17 Linux 0.01 released, 1991 Sep 2 S.u.S.E. GmbH founded, 1992 Mar 13 Linux 1.0 released, 1994 Mar 7 Linux 1.2 released, 1995 Jun 9 Linux 2.0 released, 1996 Dec 5 Patricia Miranda Torvalds born, 1996 Jan 26 Linux 2.2 released, 1999 Nov 20 Celeste Amanda Torvalds born, 2000 Jan 2 Linux 2.4 released, 2001 Aug 29 Kernel developer Leonard N. Zubkoff died in helicopter crash, 2002 Dec 17 Linux 2.6 released, 2003 /* FreeDOS history */ Sep 3 FreeDOS 1.0 released, 2006 /* Notably Internet dates */ Apr 7 First RFC published, 1969 Dec 10 Birthday of the Arpanet (predecessor of the Internet), 1969 May 22 Bob Metcalfe releases memo "The Ether Network", 1973 Dec 4 First specification of TCP/IP, 1974 Apr 12 Kevin MacKenzie invents emoticons aka smilies, 1979 Sep 19 Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-( in a CMU BBS, 1982 Nov 5 Aufnahme von .de in der IANA-Datenbank, 1986 Nov 2 Robert Tappan Morris infects the net with the infamous worm (RFC 1135), 1988 Nov 2 First Internet worm hit the net, 1988 Apr 22 University of Illinois released a little program called Mosaic, 1993 Oct 16 Jonathan Postel died, 1998 Sep 1 Richard W. Stevens died, 1999 Jul 14 MP3 format announced, 1995 Mar 6 Ray Tomlinson died, 2016 /* Notably WWW dates */ Nov 12 Hypertext first discussed, 1990 Feb 26 Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the WWW, 1991 May 17 Hypertext officially introduced at CERN, 1991 Oct 28 Tim Berners-Lee creates mailing list www-talk, 1991 Dec 12 Paul F. Kunz installs America's first WWW server on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's IBM mainframe, 1991 Apr 23 NCSA releases Mosaic 1.0, 1993 Apr 30 CERN releases code of libwww, httpd and www freely, 1993 /* IBM history */ Sep 13 Introduction of the hard disk, 1956 Apr 7 "Big Blue" (IBM) demonstrates the IBM System/360, 1964 Apr 17 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM System/360, 1966 Aug 12 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC-5150 in New York, 1981 Mar 8 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PC/XT-5160, 1983 Sep 26 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM XT/286 PC-5162, 1986 Apr 2 "Big Blue" (IBM) releases the IBM PS/2 (Model 30/60/80), 1987 Jul 30 IBM, Motorola, and Apple's PowerPC alliance is announced, 1991 Mar 31 OS/2 2.0 released, 1992 /* Apple history */ Aug 11 Steve Wozniak (Apple) born, 1950 Feb 25 Steve Jobs born, 1955 Apr 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, 1976 Feb 26 Jef Raskin 'Father of the Macintosh' dies, 2005 /* CCC history */ Sep 12 Foundation of CCC in Kommune 1 in the rooms of the "tageszeitung" in Berlin, 1981 Jul 29 Wau Holland (CCC) im Alter von 49 Jahren gestorben, 2001 /* Computer history */ Jan 31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 Mar 4 First Cray-I in Los Alamos, 1976 May 21 DEC PDP-8 released, 1965 Apr 6 Cray Research founded, 1972 Oct 25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1977 Apr 28 Zilog Z80 released, 1978 Nov 20 Microsoft Windows 1.0 released, 1985 Jan 29 Scientists at Bell Labs demonstrate the first all-optical processor, 1990 Sep 25 Microsoft founded, 1975 Aug 17 First Audio CD produced by Polygram in Hannover, Germany, 1982 /* Misc computer personalities */ Dec 28 Johann von Neumann born, 1903 Jun 22 Konrad Zuse born, 1910 Jan 8 Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM founder) born in Dayton, Ohio, 1914 Dec 3 John Backus born in Philadelphia, 1924 Dec 7 Noam Chomsky born, 1928 May 11 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra born in Rotterdam, 1930 Jan 8 Joseph Weizenbaum born in Berlin, 1932 Jun 8 Alan Turing died (self-induced), 1954 Jul 18 Robert Noyce und Gordon Moore found intel, 1968 Apr 14 Phil Katz (PKWare) died at the age of 37, 2000 Dec 19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 Aug 6 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in Neuren, 2002 Jun 22 Bob Bemer (ESC key, ASCII) died, 2004 Sep 16 Rob 'lilo' Levin died after accident, 2006 Mar 6 Joseph Weizenbaum dies in Berlin, 2008 Feb 20 Sven Guckes dies in Berlin, 2022 Aug 3 Bram Moolonaar (author of vim) passed away, 2023 /* Misc other dates */ Apr 3 First mobile telephone call (Motorola - Bell Labs), 1973 Sep 2 German Telekom starts Datex-J service alias BTX, 1983 Jun 19 The first version of the X Window System is developed jointly by MIT Project Athena and DEC, 1984 May 23 Sun launches Java, 1995 May 1 First two BASIC programs run simultaneously on a GE-225 in Darthmouth Colleges, 1964 Dec 23 NetBSD 3.0 released, 2005 Aug 28 ReactOS 0.3.0 released, 2006 Nov 1 OpenBSD 4.0 released, 2006 Sep 21 PostgreSQL 9.0 released, 2010 #endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_computer_ */