1936-06-01 00:00:00
Z1 Computer
First freely programmable computer.
1951-06-01 06:15:09
UNIVAC computer
First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.
1962-06-01 00:00:00
Spacewar Computer Game
First computer game invented
1969-06-01 00:00:00
The Original Internet
On a cold war kind of day, in swinging 1969, work began on the ARPAnet, grandfather to the Internet.
1972-06-01 00:00:00
Email
This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of nominating name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. Internet pioneer Jon Postel, who we will hear more of later, was one of the first users of the new system, and is credited with describing it as a "nice hack". It certainly was, and it has lasted to this day.
1974-06-01 00:00:00
First Consumer
In the early 1970s, anyone wanting to use a computer had to wait in a long line as computers were few and far apart. The desire and the market was increasing for a computer that could be used at home or in the office, the "personal computer". Several different manufacturers marketed "personal computers" between 1974 and 1977 in response to that desire. These were mainly kits (major assembly required) advertised in the back pages of magazines like Popular Science.
1988-06-01 00:00:00
Tin Toy
Pixar´s "Tin Toy" became the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award, taking the Oscar for best animated short film. A wind-up toy first encountering a boisterous baby narrated "Tin Toy." To illustrate the baby´s facial expressions, programmers defined more than 40 facial muscles on the computer controlled by the animator.
1994-06-01 00:00:00
New story 1
Yahoo is founded. Founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed. Yahoo originally resided on two machines, Akebono and Konishiki, both named after famous Sumo wrestlers. Yahoo would quickly expand to become one of the Internet’s most popular search engines.
1998-06-01 00:00:00
Google is founded
Google: Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
2006-01-06 22:27:00
Skype
Skype announces it has a million users.
2400 BC-06-01 00:00:00
Abacus Invented
The first abacus was invented in Babylonia.