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).
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.
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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.
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”.
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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