1979
Software Arts is incorporated by founders Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for the purpose of developing VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program, which will be published by a separate company, Personal Software Inc. (later named VisiCorp). VisiCalc will come to be widely regarded as the first “killer app” that turned the microcomputer into a serious business tool. Software Arts will also eventually develop TK/Solver, an application for mathematical modeling and equation solving. Read more about VisiCalc.
1983
According to the Twin Galaxies, Roddy Rodolfo scores a record-setting 419,555 points playing the arcade game Rescue at the Putt Putt Golf arcade in Fort Worth, Texas. Visit the official Twin Galaxies website.
1985
Coleco Industries announces it will liquidate its remaining Adam computer inventory and abandon the home computer market.
1988
The development of Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), an extraordinarily influential early time-sharing operating system, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is discontinued with MSS version 38.3.
1998
The official BMW website is hacked anonymously. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The official website of Janet Jackson and the Rolling Stones are both hacked by ” Team CodeZero”. View an archived version of Jackson’s defaced website and the Rolling Stones’ defaced website.
2002
Jim Harrer, co-founder of Mustang Software, which developed Wildcat! BBS system, becomes President and Chief Operating Officer of Starbase Corporation in Santa Ana, California. Read the original press release.
2004
The NASA space probe Stardust performs a flyby of Comet Wild 2, successfully collecting samples to be returned to Earth. In two years, the probe will become the first to return samples from a celestial body to Earth since 1974. The particles are collected on “aerogel,” a silica foam that is 99.8% air, making it the lightest material ever made.
2006
Version 1.2 Beta of the NeoOffice office suite is released. Visit the software’s official website.
Version 2.6.15 of the Linux operating system is released. Visit the official Linux website.
2007
Walter Bright of Digital Mars releases the first stable version of the D programming language, version 1.0. D is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language that originated as a re-worked version of the C++ programming language. Visit the official website of the D programming language.
The University of Washington first releases the Java-based BitTyrant bittorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The client, based on the code base of Azureus 2.5, is designed to select peers uploading to the client’s users at the fastest speed, while simultaneously limiting slower uploaders. Some accounts claim that the client downloads files by as much as seventy percent. Visit the application’s official website.
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