This day in history. Tech edition

[jaredmlg]

October 28th , 1955

Bill Gates developed a version of BASIC for the Altair 8800 while a student at Harvard. With the success of BASIC, he and co-developer Paul Allen founded Microsoft. The fledgling company delivered an operating system for the IBM PC, the Microsoft Word word processing program, the Windows operating system, and a multitude of other programs. Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO in 1999 and was replaced by President Steve Ballmer. Although he remained closely tied to Microsoft’s vision and operations, Gates devoted more of his time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic entity that, among other goals, promotes worldwide health initiatives, educational opportunities, and a means to end poverty and hunger. Even after all of his charitable giving

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October 28th, 1937

Dr. Marcian Edward (Ted) Hoff, Jr. is born October 28, 1937 at Rochester, New York. He received a BEE (1958) from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. During the summers away from college he worked for General Railway Signal Company in Rochester where he made developments that produced his first two patents. He attended Stanford as a National Science Foundation Fellow and received a MS (1959) and PhD (1962) in electrical engineering. He joined Intel in 1968. In 1980, he was named the first Intel Fellow, the highest technical position in the company. He spent a brief time as vice president for technology with Atari in the early 1980s and was vice president and chief technical officer with Teklicon, Inc., a patent and intellectual property advisory firm.

[Felixa Lee]

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[lollapalooza]

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[maria.jacob]

@lollapalooza same

[jaredmlg]

October 28 1969

The internet was born

The very first computer-computer link was established. It was part of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

In 1966, Bob Taylor convinced Charles Herzfeld (who was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Administration, or ARPA) to fund a network project. Three years later, two computers spoke to each other for the first time. The two computers were an SDS Sigma 7 and an SDS 940. The message was “login”. The first attempt to do this resulted in a computer crash — only the first two letters went through.

In 2017, there were 3.6 billion people using the Internet, about half the people on Earth. This is about the same proportion as those who have access to running water.

[Felixa Lee]

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[jaredmlg]

October 30th, 2000

Today the last remaining Multics installation is shut down at the Canadian Department of National Defense in Halifax. Although the time-sharing operating system was not a huge commercial success, it had a significant impact on the industry

[Felixa Lee]

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[Felixa Lee]

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[jaredmlg]

i can't. its giving me the same error

[AwesomeKoala89]

@jaredmlg Thats weird i was already added to the group when i found out about it

[AwesomeKoala89]

@jaredmlg maybe try clicking on @chat-perms, click join. the chat option should show up. if it doesnt, reload or re login maybe

[lollapalooza]

@AwesomeKoala89 you need to get accepted for it first