Founded on January 20, 1934, Fujifilm became the unsung infrastructure of the data storage era, supplying floppy disks and magnetic tapes worldwide, then survived the digital photography revolution by pivoting their film chemistry expertise into LCD screen coatings still used in today's smartphones.
On February 15, 1934, Niklaus Wirth was born — the Swiss computer scientist who created Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon in pursuit of a single idea: that programming languages should be simple and understandable, a philosophy that shaped how millions of students around the world first learned to code.
David Farber was born on April 17, 1934. Known as the 'Grandfather of the Internet,' he mentored many of the people who shaped the modern web — including Steve Crocker, author of RFC 1, and Jon Postel, one of the architects of TCP/IP and DNS.
