Today in computer history: October 27th
Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on October 27th of every year during the evolution of computers. October 27th is the 301th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 65 days left in the year from this day.
October 27, 193391 years ago
Gerald Weinberg was born, an American computer scientist, author, and teacher. Died August 7, 2018 (Age: 84).
October 27, 198044 years ago
ARPANET experiences first major network crash causing it to go down for four hours.
October 27, 199430 years ago
Hotwired sells the first banner ad to AT&T and begins running the first Internet banner ad campaign.
October 27, 20168 years ago
Twitter announced that in the coming months it would discontinue the Vine mobile app.
October 27, 20204 years ago
AMD announced it would be buying Xilinx for $35 billion.
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