1925 – Douglas Engelbart Born
Doug
Engelbart, best known for inventing the mouse, is born. Engelbart publically
demonstrated the mouse at a computer conference in 1968, where he also showed
off work his group had done in hypermedia and on-screen video teleconferencing.
The founder of the Bootstrap Institute, Engelbart has 20 patents to his name. Engelbart
died in 2013.
1952 – Two New Primes Found
with SWAC
Using the
Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC), researchers found two new prime
numbers the first time they attempted a prime-searching program on the
computer. Within the year, three other primes had been found. The National
Bureau of Standards funded construction of the SWAC in Los Angeles in 1950 and
it ran, in one form or another, until 1967.
1975 – Hungarian Interior Design instructor
Erno Rubik filed for a patent on his twisty toy cubes. The patent worked out
for him. Erno Rubik became the first self-made millionaire from the Communist
bloc.
1982 – First Computer Virus
Written
Richard
Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which are 400 lines long and disguised
as an Apple II boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
2000 – First Super Bowl in HD
Super
Bowl XXXIV: The St. Louis Rams beat the Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia
Dome in Atlanta. This was the first Super Bowl to be broadcast in High
Definition.
2007 – Microsoft released Windows Vista for
home use. Thought not as many homes would end up using it as other versions of
Windows.
2013 – RIM announced it was changing its
name to BlackBerry and also unveiled BlackBerry OS 10 and the new Z10 and Q10
smartphones.
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