1884 – US inventor George Eastman received a
patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. It would reign for more than
100 years until digitalstole its thunder.
1957 – British Computer
Society is Founded
October 14
is the anniversary of the British Computer Society (BCS), founded in 1957. BCS
is one of the several international societies that have an affiliate membership
relationship with the IEEE Computer Society. Since 1984 BCS has operated under
a Royal Charter which requires it to: “…promote the study and practice of
Computing and to advance knowledge therein for the benefit of the public.”
1977 – Atari Launches Home
Video Gaming
Atari releases
their video Computer System (known as the VCS and later as the Atari 2600). It
took two years for the VCS to gain traction, but by 1979 it was the best
selling gift of the Christmas season. Once it was established, the Atari VCS
took the market by storm, popularized home video gaming, and helped cement the
video game movement into mainstream culture.
1985 – The first official reference guide
for the C++ programming language was published. It was written by the language’s
creator, Bjarne Stroustrup.
1986 – Open Source Zmodem Released
Telenet funded
a project to develop an improved public domain application to application file
transfer protocol. This protocol would alleviate the throughput problems their
network customers were experiencing with XMODEM and Kermit file transfers.
ZMODEM could provide high performance and reliability over packet switched
networks while preserving XMODEM’s simplicity. It made Xmodem and Ymodem obsolete.
1996 – Matthias Ettrich posted about his new
project Kool Desktop Environment, or KDE, attempting to create a GUI for the
enduser of Linux.
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