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April 25, 1980: Activision Formed
April 25, 2025
1980 Activision was technically founded in 1979, but it wasnt until April 25 that the Fantastic Four joined up as the first third-party software company for video games. David Crane and Alan Mill
April 24, 1984: Apple IIc Introduced
April 24, 2025
1984 Apple introduces the Apple IIc, their answer to a portable machine. It weighed 7 1/2 lbs and featured a 1.023MHz CPU and 128 KB RAM. $1,295. The device device had a built-in floppy and peripher
April 23, 1964: Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) Decommissioned
April 23, 2025
1964 The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) is retired after fifteen years. SEAC was the first to use all-diode logic. SEAC was bason on EDVAC. It had 747 vacuum tubes, and the clock rate wa
April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser
April 22, 2025
1993 The National Center for Supercomputing Applications releases version 1.0 (RTM) of the Mosaic Web Browser. It was the first browser with a Graphical user interface for content. Marc Andreesen an
April 21, 1977: MITS vs Bill Gates & Microsoft: 8080 BASIC
April 21, 2025
1977 Two days prior, Microsoft send MITS a letter with theallegationthat they were not up on royalty payments and if they didnt catch up, MITS would be in breach and the 8080 BASIC would be pulle
April 20, 2009: Oracle Purchases Sun Microsystems
April 20, 2025
2009 Oracle announces they have purchased Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion dollar deal. This includes stock at $9.50 / share. That would also be the acquisition of SPARC processors, Solaris OS, Ja
April 19, 2000: iPAQ, Cassiopeia, Jornada Released
April 19, 2025
2000 Before smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants were the device to have. You could store contacts, write memos, set up, read and send email and even play a nice game ofSolitaire, or the game wh
April 18, 2006: HD DVD Format
April 18, 2025
2006 Toshiba launches the HD DVD format in the US. The first HD DVD players were the HD-A1 and HD-XA1. RCA would rebrand the A1 to the HDV-5000. The first HD DVD with TrueHD soundtrack was the Phant
April 17, 2000: Terraserver Releases Photos of Area 51
April 17, 2025
2000 Five arial images of Area 51 are leaked onto Terraserver from a Russian satellite called Sovinformsputnik. The amount of traffic that went to the site brought the server down, so they had to t
April 16, 1977: Debut of Apple II, Commodore Pet
April 16, 2025
1977 Apple Computer shows off the Apple II home computer at the West Coast Computer Faire. The $1,298 Home machine featured a 6502 processor, 4kb RAM 16kb ROM and for the first time A home compute
April 15, 2005:Damn Small Linux Released
April 15, 2025
2005 It was the release of the Damn Small Linux program, a Linux distribution that was designed to take up as little drive space as possible. John Andrews DSLs developer Never allowed the ISO t
April 14, 1996: JenniCam Debuts
April 14, 2025
1996 Nineteen year old Jennifer Kaye Ringley takes several webcams and places them within her house. For the next seven years, she would livestream her life to all on the Internet. Since Ringley was
April 13, 1965: Moore’s Law
April 13, 2025
1965 You may have heard about Moores Law. This states that every 18 months, a processor will double in speed. The laws name is coined after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore. He said: It cant conti
April 12, 1976: Apple’s 3rd Co-Founder Ronald Wayne
April 12, 2025
1976 What a position Ronald Wayne was in. He was the 3rd co-founder of Apple Computer on April 1 with 10% share. However, after two weeks Wayne sells his share for $800 back to Steve Jobs and Steve W
April 11, 2009: Susan Boyle’s YouTube Moment
April 11, 2025
2009 Susan Boyle takes the Stage at Britians Got Talent. A person that most would write-off at first glance, sings I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables. Once she was done, the 48 year-old Scot
April 10, 2003: First Blu-Ray Player
April 10, 2025
2003 Sony Blu-Ray players hit store shelves for the first time. The BDZ-S77 was the first model, but didnt sell too well because of the $3800 price tag attached to it. Add to it no movies available
April 9, 2012: Facebook Purchased Instagram
April 09, 2025
2012 Facebook trying to get a hold on photosharing decides to not wait for their iPhone app to come out but instead purchase Instagram for 1 billion dollars ($300 million and 23 million shares o
April 8, 1983: Steve Jobs Brings John Sculley as CEO
April 08, 2025
1983 John Sculley, who was president of PepsiCo at the time, decides to leave to become president and CEO of Apple Computer at request of Steve Jobs. Sculleys campaign of the Pepsi Challenge was
April 7, 2008: Intel ATOM Processor Launched
April 07, 2025
2008 Intel launches their newest processor: the ATOM processor. Its codename was Silverthorne. It is a ATOM Z single processor using the 45 nm die processes (the processor was smaller than a penny).
April 6, 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
April 06, 2025
1968 2001: A SpaceOdysseyactually premiered in Washington DC on April 2nd, New York and LosAngleson April 4th. It was April 6th that was the major theatrical release date for the US. This Stanle
April 5, 1995: Security Administration Tool (SATAN) Released
April 05, 2025
1995 The program is called the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks. But you may call it SATAN. The Perl written program Written by Dan Famer and Wietse Venema was released to help
April 4, 1975: Microsoft was Founded
April 04, 2025
1975 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) is located. The duo
April 3, 1973: First Cell Phone Call
April 03, 2025
1973 Martin Cooper made the first handheld cellular phone call in public. Walking down the streets of New York, Cooper the General Manager of Motorolas communication system division talked on t
April 2, 1987: The IBM PS/2 Released
April 02, 2025
1987 IBM releases a flurry of new items on this day. The most notable was the IBM PS/2 Their first 80386 system using a 3.5 floppy (720kb or 1.44 MB discs), MFM hard drive, PC-DOS and OS/2. Multip
April Fools Day History
April 01, 2025
Watch out today, as the internet becomes a bevy of fake information. The joke telling pre-dates the internet, but since the world started connecting online, the hoaxes have gotten not only more elaborate, but more fun. Did you know that John C.
March 31, 2008: DNS Addressing Flaw
March 31, 2025
2008 Dan Kaminsky announced he has been in contact with Microsoft over a flaw in the DNS naming system. At this time, there were no other details as to keep this issue as secret as possible while th
March 30, 1993: AT&T Graphics Software Labs Close
March 30, 2025
1993 The graphics software labs at AT&T closed down and relocated to the AT&T Multimedia Software Solutions. The division focused on software products that included 3D vector based graphic programs
March 29, 1989: Pixar’s Tin Toy Wins Academy Award
March 29, 2025
1982 The first completely computer animated video wins an Academy Award for best animated short film. Tin Toy by Pixar (now a division of Disney) was an animated short film about atoy named Tinny
March 28, 1979: Meltdown of Three Mile Island
March 28, 2025
1979 At 4 PM EST, the nuclear reactors in Middletown, PA (Dauphin County) experienced a partial meltdown. The incident was officially rated a 5-of-7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale: Acciden
March 27, 1982: Pac-Man Fever Hits #9
March 27, 2025
1982 Recorded in 1981, the song Pac-Man fever was a song by (Jerry ) Buckner & (Gary) Garcia. Each song on the album was about a different video game and was released via album, cassette, 8-track a
March 26, 1976: Altair Computer Convention
March 26, 2025
1976 The First Annual World Altair Computer Convention is held at the Airport Marina Hotel near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bill Gatesopens the convention with his position on software piracy. Of cour
March 25, 1994: Microsoft Excel 4.0
March 25, 2025
1994 Microsoft released Excel 4.0. It included an Easter egg animation of the Excel logo crushing the numbers 1-2-3. Other Day in Tech History items: AOL and eBay cross marketing agreement Excel 4.0
March 24, 1802: The Puffing Devil Steam Engine Patent
March 24, 2025
1802 A patent for the first steam engine was issued to Richard Trevithick and Andrew Viviane. The machine was called the Puffing Devil or Puffer. The engine could produce 145 psi to push the car
March 23, 2001: Mir Crashes Down in Deorbit
March 23, 2025
2001 Its called the Deorbit Space Station Mir was a controlled re-entry into the Earths atmosphere. Ultimately, the space station burned up over the ocean by New Zeland. Some parts of Mir coul
March 22, 1981: RCA Selectavision Videodisc
March 22, 2025
1981 The first vinyl video record, a.k.a. the videodisc, hit stores in the U.S. The Capacitance Electronic Disc looked just like any other vinyl record protected in a plastic caddy and held 60 min
March 21, 2006: The First Tweet and Twitter is Founded
March 21, 2025
2006 Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass launch Twitter (a.k.a.Twttr) with Jacks first Tweet. Just setting up my Twttr went across the network of only a few followers. Similar t
March 20, 1916: The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity
March 20, 2025
1916 Albert Einstein sent a paper off to Annelen Der Physik. The paper was called Die Grundlage der Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie translated as The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativ
March 19, 1997: First Consumer DVD Player Released in U.S.
March 19, 2025
1997 Toshiba a member of the DVD consortium put out the first consumer DVD player on November 1, 1996 in Japan as the SD-3000. After some initial changes (and having to change the DVD region cod
March 18, 2008: LimeWire Tries to go Legal
March 18, 2025
2008 The free peer-to-peer file sharing program who was under major fire decided to set up a fully legal DRM music store. With over 500,000 MP3s from artists who are not on any major labels, the st
March 17, 1988: Apple Sues Microsoft, HP over GUI
March 17, 2025
Happy St. Patricks Day! 1988 The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is what we use daily to open up email, our web browser and even those apps on your smartphone or tablet. With the first real GUI came
March 16, 1926: First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launched
March 16, 2025
1926 Robert Goddard became the first man to launchliquid-fueled rocket. The liquid oxygen and gasoline mixture launched the 10 foot rocket, travelling at 60 MPH, to an altitude of 41 feet. The rock
March 15, 1989: Amiga Plus Magazine
March 15, 2025
1989 Antic Software publishes the first issue of Amiga Plus Magazine. It was the April/May edition and included an AMIGA Plus disk, which included the graphic programs created. Articles included eve
March 14, 1994: Apple Power Macintosh
March 14, 2025
1994 Apple computer released a new line of MacIntosh computers in the Power Macintosh 6100. With a 60-66 MHz PowerPC 601 RISC processor the first time Apple used this processor line up to 32 MB
March 13, 2013: Zuckerberg Calls President Obama
March 13, 2025
2014 Mark Zuckerberg told the press he called President Barak Obama to bring his concerns to the table. The Facebook post talked about trust on the Internet, keeping it a shared space and how we sho
March 12, 1998: V-Chip Becomes Mandatory
March 12, 2025
1998 TheFCC announcedthey have come to a finalization on the video programming rating system and have fulfilled all requirements for the proposed V-Chip. Along with NAB, NCTA and MPAA, the chip
March 11, 2007: The Move of Daylight Savings Time
March 11, 2025
2007 The Energy Policy Act of 2005 ammended Daylight savings time 3 weeks . The theory was to move clocks forward 1 hour 3 weeks earlier than usual and Fall back in the first week of November (inste
March 10, 2002: Sony Clié Announced
March 10, 2025
2003The Sony Cli PEG-NR70 and PEG-NR70V handheld computers were released. These were 66 MHz PDA units running the Motorola Dragonball SuperVZ processor with a 16-bit color screen and runningPalm
March 9, 2008: The Zuckerberg, Lacy Incident
March 09, 2025
2008 SXSW Interactive keynote, Mark Zuckerberg was being interviewed by journalist Sarah Lacy. There was a lot of anticipation for the event, but things went south quickly (no pun intended). During
March 8, 2000: Apple Settles with Daewoo, eMachines over iMac Look
March 08, 2025
2000Apple concluded their iMac trade dress infringement against Daewoo and eMachines. The two companies made machines too similar to the iconic iMac look the eMachines eOne computer and the Daewo
March 7, 1996: Pluto Photos Released
March 07, 2025
1996 Even though Pluto was first seen in 1930, we didnt havethe ability to take a decent picture of the furthest planet er dwarf planet er (dang you Neil deGrasse Tyson!!!). The Hubble telesco