Today in computer history: March 31th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on March 31th of every year during the evolution of computers. March 31th is the 91th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 275 days left in the year from this day.

Rene Descartes pictureMarch 31, 1596
428 years ago

Rene Descartes was born, a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer dubbed the father of modern philosophy. Died February 11, 1650 (Age: 53).

Edwin Catmull pictureMarch 31, 1945
79 years ago

Edwin Catmull was born, a computer scientist and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios.

Al Gore pictureMarch 31, 1948
76 years ago

Al Gore was born, an American politician, advocate, author, philanthropist, and environmental activist.

Evan Williams pictureMarch 31, 1972
52 years ago

Evan Williams was born, the co-founder of Twitter and blogger.

Andrew Baron pictureMarch 31, 1980
44 years ago

Andrew Baron was born, creator of Rocketboom, Know Your Meme and the video aggregator site, Magma.

ComputerMarch 31, 1998
26 years ago

Oak Technology exited the PC audio and 3D graphic market.

BlizzardMarch 31, 1998
26 years ago

Blizzard Entertainment releases the game StarCraft for the PC.

MovieMarch 31, 1999
25 years ago

The popular sci-fi movie Matrix was released.

CompanyMarch 31, 2001
23 years ago

Quantum sells its hard drive business to Maxtor.

LinuxMarch 31, 2002
22 years ago

Gentoo was released.

ComputerMarch 31, 2006
18 years ago

Toshiba released the first HD DVD player in Japan.

HardwareMarch 31, 2007
17 years ago

World Backup Day is introduced as a reminder for people to not be a fool on April 1st and backup your data.

ComputerMarch 31, 2015
9 years ago

ASUS released the first Chromebit.

AmazonMarch 31, 2015
9 years ago

Amazon introduced the Dash Button.

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