Today in computer history: January 26th
Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on January 26th of every year during the evolution of computers. January 26th is the 26th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 340 days left in the year from this day.
93 years ago
Eiichi Goto was born, a Japanese computer scientist known for inventing one of the first general-purpose computers in Japan. Died June 12, 2005 (Age: 74).
83 years ago
Barbara Simons was born, an American computer scientist and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
77 years ago
Robert Cailliau was born, a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who helped develop the World Wide Web.
41 years ago
Lotus begins selling the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.
30 years ago
Novell transferred its database software product to Btrieve.
26 years ago
Compaq Computer purchases Digital Equipment Corporation for $9.6 billion.
24 years ago
XHTML was released.
18 years ago
JQuery was first released.
10 years ago
Google announces it has agreed to acquire DeepMind Technologies for $650 million.
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