https://history.purple-magic.com/en/ IT History Journal en Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:03:37 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/16/computing-tabulating-recording-was-founded/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/16/computing-tabulating-recording-was-founded/ Financier Charles Flint merged three companies into CTR, and Thomas Watson turned it into IBM — one of the greatest corporate giants in the history of IT Fri, 16 Jun 1911 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/15/adobe-acrobat-1-released/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/15/adobe-acrobat-1-released/ Adobe released Acrobat 1.0 and introduced PDF — a format that looks the same on any device and became the world standard for document exchange Tue, 15 Jun 1993 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/14/charles-babbage-presented-difference-engine/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/14/charles-babbage-presented-difference-engine/ The first step toward automated computation: a mechanical device that calculates without human intervention Fri, 14 Jun 1822 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/13/leonard-kleinrock-was-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/13/leonard-kleinrock-was-born/ Leonard Kleinrock developed the mathematical model for packet switching and helped build the first ARPANET node Wed, 13 Jun 1934 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/12/kurt-lehovec-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/12/kurt-lehovec-born/ Kurt Lehovec's p-n junction isolation technique helped make integrated circuits practical Wed, 12 Jun 1918 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/11/speak-and-spell-introduced/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/11/speak-and-spell-introduced/ Texas Instruments introduced the first mass-market device with a dedicated speech-synthesis chip Sun, 11 Jun 1978 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/10/friedrich-ludwig-bauer-was-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/10/friedrich-ludwig-bauer-was-born/ coined "software engineering" term and invented stack-based expression evaluation methods Tue, 10 Jun 1924 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/9/jefferson-mind-of-mechanical-man/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/9/jefferson-mind-of-mechanical-man/ Neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson said there's a vast gulf between computation and true thought Thu, 09 Jun 1949 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/8/tim-berners-lee-was-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/8/tim-berners-lee-was-born/ Created the World Wide Web, making the Internet accessible to everyone and shaping the digital world Wed, 08 Jun 1955 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/7/google-first-funding-round/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/7/google-first-funding-round/ Google raised a $25 million funding round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/6/creation-of-tetris/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/6/creation-of-tetris/ Alexey Pajitnov completed the first working version of Tetris on an Elektronika-60 computer Wed, 06 Jun 1984 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/5/release-of-apple-ii/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/jun/5/release-of-apple-ii/ Apple sold its first mass-market product, the Apple II, fully assembled, connectable to a TV, running VisiCalc Sun, 05 Jun 1977 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/19/james-gosling-was-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/19/james-gosling-was-born/ Considered the main creator of Java with many other important achievements in his career Thu, 19 May 1955 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/18/facebook-ipo/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/18/facebook-ipo/ Facebook listed shares on NASDAQ at $38 per share, valuing the company at about $104 billion Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/17/minecraft-became-publicly-available/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/17/minecraft-became-publicly-available/ Minecraft's first public version featured a primitive world of cubes and simple terrain generation Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/16/ivan-sutherland-was-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/16/ivan-sutherland-was-born/ created Sketchpad, a revolutionary interactive graphics program demonstrating windows and object manipulation Mon, 16 May 1938 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/15/frank-heart-was-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/15/frank-heart-was-born/ Led the team that built the first IMP network nodes, the ancestors of modern routers Wed, 15 May 1929 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/14/mark-zuckerberg-was-born/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/14/mark-zuckerberg-was-born/ Facebook started as a small Harvard website before becoming an influential internet platform Mon, 14 May 1984 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/13/release-of-discord/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/13/release-of-discord/ Discord launched as a community hub for gaming, open source, student chats, and more Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/12/release-of-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/ https://history.purple-magic.com/en/may/12/release-of-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES became one of the hardest games of its generation Fri, 12 May 1989 00:00:00 +0000