On January 22, 1984, Apple aired the '1984' commercial during the Super Bowl — directed by Ridley Scott, it showed no product, ran only once on TV, yet became one of the most iconic advertisements in history and permanently defined Apple's identity as a rebel against corporate conformity.
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.
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 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.
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.
