1456 – According to a handwritten note by
illustrator Heinrich Cremer, the final binding of the Gutenberg bible took
place.
1965 – Ted Nelson presented a paper called “A File
Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate” at the
Association for Computing Machinery. In it he used the word “hypertext” a term
he made up.
1995 – Microsoft Ships Windows
95
Thanks to
possibly the largest product launch campaign in history, Windows95’s sales
exceeded all predictions. Strangely, it was two years to the day that Apple
lost it look and feel copyright infringement suit against Microsoft, a suit
whose main argument centered around many features now found on Windows95.
2001 – Webkit received its first commit of code from
Apple. The Safari browser appeared two years later and Webkit was open sourced
in 2005.
2011 – Steve Jobs Resigns as
CEO
Steve
Jobs, unable to continue due to failing health, officially puts his resignation
in to Apple. He asks for his successor to be Tim Cook, then COO of Apple. The Board
of Directors agree and announce the changing of CEO. The official resignation
letter read: To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have
always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and
expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know.
Unfortunately, that day has come.
Jobs passed away 43 days later on October 5.2011.
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