The month of June also had significant events that changed the world of computing and technology, here is a look at both the old and recent history the month of June brought us
Year: 1944
Event: Colossus Mark 2 Computer, in 1943 Colossus Mark 1 was the world’s first electronic digital computer used in the World War II, then 6 months later the Colossus Mark 2 was the improved version of the Mk 1 which was used at Bletchley Park.
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Year: 1956
Event: Tim Paterson was born on this date 57 years ago. Tim is a computer programmer from America who is best known for inventing 86-DOS and MS-DOS. Tim graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Computer Science in June 1978.
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Year: 2009
Event: Bing was created by Microsoft this date 3 years ago as a search engine to rival the almighty Google. Microsoft changed the look and feel of a standard search engine by adding dynamic and high resolutions pictures of places and wildlife, making the Bing homepage a very pretty search engine visually to look at.
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Year: 1952
Event: Alan Cooper’s 61st birthday, he was born in San Francisco, California, USA and is the creator of a computer visual programming language which was code-named “Ruby”. This allowed Windows users to build their own “Finder”-like shells.
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Year: 1924
Event: Donald Davies’ birthday. Donald was born in Treorchy, Wales this date 89 years ago, but he sadly died 28th May 2000 aged 75. Donald was a computer scientist who was one of the inventors of the packet switched computer networking which is what local area networks (LAN) is based on.
He was also the originator of the term, “and the internet itself can be traced directly back to his work”.
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Year: 1955
Event: Tim Berners-Lee was born 58 years ago, and is the creator of the World Wide Web (www). The internet already existed but only as data transfer between computers, but Tim implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and the internet. These brought the world whole new possibilities
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Year: 1993
Event: Cello internet browser was first introduced on this date 20 years ago. It was made by Thomas R. Bruce for the use of Microsoft Windows on the Windows NT 3.5 but only lasted 11 months before it was discontinued in April 1994.
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Year: 1995
Event: PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor) is a server-side scripting language designed for web development and is also used as a general-purpose programming language. A PHP is a code that is interpreted by a web server which generates the resulting web page, it can also be embedded directly into an HTML source document.
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Year: 2007
Event: Apple Inc. Safari web browser was released to computer competitors, Microsoft Windows, which was supported for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and higher operating systems. Safari is Apple’s very own version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
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Year: 1934
Event: Leonard Kleinrock born in New York City, and graduated with a master’s degree and a Ph.D in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute. He is best known for the development of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).
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Year: 1993
Event: Adobe Acrobat/Reader was released for Apple Macintosh computers. It later became available for Windows 3.1 and DOS.
Adobe Reader is a software used for viewing and printing PDF documents, but prevents users from editing the file which means this is very useful for viewing presentations and important documents without people altering the information.
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Year: 1896
Event: Murray Leinster was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Murray is an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history and author of the 1946 short story ‘A Logic Named Joe’, which envisioned a future of mass computing linked through “tanks” (servers) in which comms, commerce etc. was easily accessible, at a time when computing was in its infancy.
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Year: 1911
Event: IBM the American multinational technology and consulting corporation was founded by Charles Ranlett Flint. The main headquarters is located in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM is one of the world’s largest marketing and manufacturer of computer hardware and software, offering infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in a vast range of areas from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
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Year: 1937
Event: American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of IT, Ted Nelson was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Year: 1948
Event: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) which was nicknamed “Baby”, was the world’s first stored-program computer. It was created at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill.
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Year: 1910
Event: Konrad Zuse was born in Berlin, Germany, he was a civil engineer and computer pioneer. Konrad was best known for the world’s first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3 first became operational in May 1941.
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Year: 1995
Event: The Norwegian software company, Opera Software ASA was founded. Opera Software is best known for its family of web browsers. Opera is also involved in promoting Web standards through participation in the W3C.
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Year: 1912
Event: The British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, Alan Turing was born. Alan is considered to be the “father” of computer science and artificial intelligence. Alan was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with Turing Machine which he invented in 1936
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Year: 1937
Event: Philip Don Estridge was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Philip is known as the “father of the IBM PC” for his lead development of the original IBM Personal Computer which was introduced in August 12th 1981.
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Year: 2010
Event: The famous Apple touchscreen smartphone, the iPhone 4 was introduced to the world. The iPhone 4 is the fourth generation iPhone and the successor to the iPhone 3GS.
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Year: 1998
Event: Microsoft released Windows 98 operating system to the world. Windows 98 was the second major operating system release after Windows 95.
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Year: 1949
Event: The Birth of Ward Cunningham who is an American computer programmer who developed the first ever wiki. Ward is a pioneer in both design patterns and extreme programming, he created the programming for the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy.
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Year: 1957
Event: Geir Ivarsøy, born in Norway he was the lead programmer at Opera Software. Geir was part of a research group at the Norwegian state phone company better known as Telenor where they developed browsing software called MultiTorg Opera.
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