June 6, 1984 — Tetris Is Created
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.
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June 5, 1977 — Release of Apple II
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.
June 5
May 19, 1955 — James Gosling Was Born
James Gosling is considered the main creator of Java, but his career included many other important achievements.
May 19
May 18, 2012 — Facebook IPO
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.
May 18
May 17, 2009 — Minecraft Became Publicly Available
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.
May 17
May 16, 1938 — Ivan Sutherland Was Born
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.
May 16
May 15, 1929 — Frank Heart Was Born
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.
May 15
May 14, 1984 — Mark Zuckerberg Was Born
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.
May 14
May 13, 2015 — Release of Discord
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.
May 13
May 12, 1989 — Release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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.
May 12
May 11, 1930 — Edsger Dijkstra Was Born
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.
May 11
May 10, 1954 — Presentation of the Silicon Transistor
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.
May 10
May 9, 1969 — Marc Ewing Was Born
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.
May 9
May 8, 1984 — John Resig Was Born
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.
May 8
May 7, 1946 — Sony Was Founded
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.
May 7
May 6, 1998 — iMac Presentation
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.
May 6
May 5, 1992 — Release of Wolfenstein 3D
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.
May 5
May 4, 2000 — ILOVEYOU Is Discovered
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.
May 4
May 3, 1984 — Dell Was Founded
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.
May 3
May 2, 1983 — Microsoft Released the Two-Button Mouse
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.
May 2