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.
186 years ago
Fredrik Idestam was born, a Finnish businessman and engineer known for founding Nokia. Died April 8, 1916 (Age: 78).
87 years ago
Marcian Hoff was born, one of the inventors of the computer microprocessor.
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.
26 years ago
DMCA was passed.
21 years ago
Best Data purchased the rights to Diamond Multimedia from SONICblue.
14 years ago
MachinimaSports becomes the 1 billionth subscriber on YouTube.
10 years ago
The HTML5 programming language was recommended and released to the public by W3C.
6 years ago
IBM announced its plans to acquire Red Hat for approximately $34 billion.
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