Today in computer history: October 28th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on October 28th of every year during the evolution of computers. October 28th is the 302th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 64 days left in the year from this day.

Fredrik Idestam pictureOctober 28, 1838
186 years ago

Fredrik Idestam was born, a Finnish businessman and engineer known for founding Nokia. Died April 8, 1916 (Age: 78).

Marcian Hoff pictureOctober 28, 1937
87 years ago

Marcian Hoff was born, one of the inventors of the computer microprocessor.

Bill Gates pictureOctober 28, 1955
69 years ago

Bill Gates was born, the founder of Microsoft.

John Romero pictureOctober 28, 1967
57 years ago

John Romero was born, co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom, and Quake.

ComputerOctober 28, 1998
26 years ago

DMCA was passed.

CompanyOctober 28, 2003
21 years ago

Best Data purchased the rights to Diamond Multimedia from SONICblue.

YouTubeOctober 28, 2010
14 years ago

MachinimaSports becomes the 1 billionth subscriber on YouTube.

CodeOctober 28, 2014
10 years ago

The HTML5 programming language was recommended and released to the public by W3C.

IBMOctober 28, 2018
6 years ago

IBM announced its plans to acquire Red Hat for approximately $34 billion.

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