Tagged “on this day”

12 April: the space shuttle flew for the first time with a shop-bought pocket calculator as a backup computer — and MSN hit five million

On 12 April 1981 Columbia launched on the first shuttle mission carrying HP-41C calculators bought from a Houston store, programmed by NASA…

12 Apr 2024

3 March: the telephone’s inventor is born, AT&T is founded, and thirty hobbyists meet in a garage and start the personal computer

Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh on this day in 1847, was trying to help the deaf when he built the telephone; the company he…

3 Mar 2024

14 February: YouTube is born, the QWERTY man is born, CTR becomes IBM and ENIAC meets the press — one date, four foundations

On this day in 2005 three ex-PayPal employees registered a video site that now has 2.5 billion users; in 1819 the inventor of the…

14 Feb 2024

30 January: the man who invented the mouse was born, a computer found its first prime numbers, and Windows Vista arrived

Douglas Engelbart, born on this day in 1925, demonstrated the mouse, hypertext and video conferencing in a single 1968 presentation that…

30 Jan 2024