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Today in Tech History – October 14



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.
                                                   
1957British 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.”
                                                 
1977Atari 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.
                                                  
1986Open 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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