Today in Tech History – May 23

1825 – William Sturgeon exhibited the electromagnet in a practical form for the first time. The exhibition accompanied the reading of a paper, recorded in the Transactions of the Society of Arts for 1825 (Vol xliii, p.38).

1903 – The Old World Gets Connected

                Paris, France and Rome, Italy are connected by telephone for first time.

1908 – John Bardeen was born. He grew up to win the Nobel Prize twice, once for inverting the transistor, and once for figuring out superconductivity.

1994 – Java Development Begins in Earnest
             Sun Microsystems Inc. formally announced its new programs, Java and HotJava at the SunWorld’95 convention. Java was described as a programming language that, combined with the HotJava World Wide Web browser, offered the best universal operating system to the online community. The concept behind the programs was to design a programming language whose applications would be available to a user with any kind of operating system, eliminating the problems of translation between Macintoshes, IBM-compatible computers, and Unix machines.

1995 – MySQL Released RDBMS
            MySQL releases their SQL database program for web pages. This is known as a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). MySQL uses C and C++, the SQL parser uses yacc and a hybrid of lexer called “sql_lex.cc”.

2002 – Netflix began selling its stock publicly on the NASDAQ. It rose from it’s initial price, unusual for the time when tech company stocks were generally in poor shape.

2006 – Windows Vista Beta 2 was released to Microsoft Developer Network subscribers and Microsoft Connect testers in conjunction with Bill Gates’s keynote presentation at the WinHEC conference.     

2011 – Twitter purchased TweetDeck for $40 million.

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