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ABC Successfully Tested
John Atanasoff successfully tests the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) which was the first computer to use regenerative capacitor drum memory. -
Digital Phone Lines
Phone companies develop digital transmission for internal uses, specifically to put more calls on each of the main lines connecting their own switching centers. By 1958, this produces the T1 standard still used in North America. By the 1980s, phone companies will be leasing digital lines to commercial users. -
CDC 6600 Supercomputer
The Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600 performs up to 3 million instructions per second, three times faster than that of its closest competitor, the IBM 7030 supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the World until 1968. -
Hypertext
Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrated Hypertext on the NLS on December 9, 1968, in the mother of all demos. UCLA is selected to be the first node on the Internet as we know it today. -
Compaq Computer Corp.
Compaq Computer Corp. was founded in 1982 by Rod Canion and other Texas Instruments Incorporated engineers. Compaq was the first company to introduce a clone of the IBM PC (the Compaq Portable in 1983) and became IBMs biggest challenger in the corporate market. -
Bill Gates
Bill Gates was hit in the face with a cream pie by Noel Godin while entering the European Union on February 4, 1998. -
Digital Information Age
The "digital information age" is said to have begun in 2002 when the total digitized information in the world exceeded traditional analog information. -
Bitcoin
A person under the fake name of Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the Internet currency bitcoin on January 3, 2009. -
COVID-19
In early February 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus in China caused significant disruption to the worldwide technology industry. Google announced the temporary closure of all offices in mainland China, and all apple stores in China were closed indefinitely. -
Apache
One of the biggest, if not the biggest, security vulnerabilities in computer history was announced on December 9, when notes on an Apache log4j vulnerability were released. The vulnerability could give an attacker full access to a server with minimal effort.