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
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
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 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
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
Apr 6 Cray Research founded, 1972
Oct 25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1977
Apr 28 Zilog Z80 released, 1978
-Nov 20 Microsoft 1.0 released, 1985
+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
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
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
/* Misc other dates */
Apr 3 First mobile telephone call (Motorola - Bell Labs), 1973
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_ */