1954 – Daniel Kottke was born in Bronxville, New York. He would go on to befriend Steve Jobs at Reed College, assemble the first Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak and work on the original Macintosh team.
1975 – Microsoft Founded
Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, NM. The company was founded there simply because that is where Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) are located. The duo was building BASIC for the Altair 8800.
1994 – Netscape Born
Ironically, 19 years to the day after Microsoft was formed, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark create the Mosaic Communications Corporation, which will later be renamed Netscape Communication Corporation. Andreessen had developed the Mosaic web browser while working at the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
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