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On June 6, 1984, Alexey Pajitnov completed the first working version of Tetris on a Soviet computer — a game that would become one of the most recognized in history.
The Apple II was Apple's first mass-market product: sold fully assembled, connectable to a regular TV, and adaptable enough to run VisiCalc — the killer app that turned it into a business staple. Its profits effectively financed the development of both Lisa and Macintosh.
James Gosling is considered the main creator of Java, but his career included many other important achievements.
On May 18, 2012, Facebook held one of the most talked-about IPOs in tech history. Mark Zuckerberg's company listed its shares on the NASDAQ exchange.
On May 17, 2009, Markus Persson released the first public version of Minecraft — a sandbox without goals, a world without limits, and a development model that changed the industry.
Ivan Sutherland was born on May 16, 1938. He is often called one of the creators of modern computer graphics. In 1963 he built Sketchpad — a program that first demonstrated interactive graphics, windows, and object-oriented manipulation.
Frank Heart was born on May 15, 1929 — an engineer without whom ARPANET might have remained just a beautiful theory. He led the BBN team that built the first IMP network nodes, the direct ancestors of modern routers.
On May 14, 1984, Mark Zuckerberg was born — the person who built a website for Harvard students to communicate, then turned it into one of the most influential platforms in the history of the internet.
Discord officially launched on May 13, 2015. Today it is hard to imagine the internet without it — a place where gaming clans, open source projects, and friend groups all make their home.
One of the most notable releases in gaming history: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES arrived at the peak of the franchise's popularity and became one of the hardest games of its generation.
Edsger Dijkstra was born on May 11, 1930. Creator of the famous shortest-path algorithm, he spent his career arguing that programming is a mathematical discipline — and left behind ideas that still shape computer science today.
On May 10, 1954, Texas Instruments presented the silicon transistor at an IRE conference — the moment silicon began replacing germanium and set the foundation for every processor built since.
Marc Ewing, founder of Red Hat, became one of the key figures in open source and Linux. He helped legitimize open source for corporations and introduced a business model that funds much of the open source ecosystem today.
John Resig is the creator of jQuery. In the 2000s, when JavaScript was widely dismissed, jQuery helped hundreds of thousands of developers build millions of websites — and helped make JavaScript a language worth taking seriously.
On May 7, 1946, a small company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo appeared in war-damaged Tokyo with twenty employees and $2,000 in capital. The world would later know it by a different name — Sony.
On May 6, 1998, Steve Jobs presented the iMac — Apple's first major product since his return. An all-in-one machine in translucent plastic with no floppy drive and a single USB port, it looked unlike anything else on the market and became a symbol of Apple's revival.
Wolfenstein 3D, released on May 5, 1992, is considered the game that defined the first-person shooter genre. Though technically a 2D ray-casting engine simulating depth, it established the mechanics and perspective that shaped every FPS that followed — from DOOM to Call of Duty.
On May 4, 2000, a 16-line Visual Basic script called ILOVEYOU infected tens of millions of computers within hours. It arrived from trusted contacts, overwrote files, and caused an estimated $5–10 billion in damage — one of the most destructive pieces of malware in history.
On May 3, 1984, 19-year-old Michael Dell registered PC's Limited from his university dorm room in Austin, Texas. His idea: build computers to order and sell them directly. It was not a new technology — it was a new business model, and it worked.
In 1983, Microsoft released the first widely available two-button mouse. The original mouse had only one button; Xerox had built a two-button version earlier, but it never reached mass market. Microsoft's release set the standard that has defined computer mice ever since.
FTX was founded in May 2019 and filed for bankruptcy in November 2022 — just three and a half years later. In between, founder Sam Bankman-Fried became a billionaire, the exchange attracted millions of users, and its leadership used customer funds for their own investments. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
James Gosling is considered the main creator of Java, but his career included many other important achievements.
On May 18, 2012, Facebook held one of the most talked-about IPOs in tech history. Mark Zuckerberg's company listed its shares on the NASDAQ exchange.
