This day in computer history
May 1 - The 121th day of 2013. There are 244 days left in the year.
May 1, 191895 years ago
Bashir Rameyev is born (d. 1994), a Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing.
May 1, 196449 years ago
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth University introduce the original BASIC programming language.
May 1, 197835 years ago
The first spam e-mail was sent by Gary Thuerk, an employee at Digital who was advertising the new DECSYSTEM on ARPAnet.
May 1, 200211 years ago
David Smith aka Kwyjibo is convicted for the Melissa Virus.
Related pages: AKA, ARPANET, BASIC, Digital, E-mail, Programming, Spam, Virus, Who
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