Today in computer history: January 31th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on January 31th of every year during the evolution of computers. January 31th is the 31th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 335 days left in the year from this day.

David Reed pictureJanuary 31, 1952
72 years ago

David Reed was born, known for his work with computer networking, TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Multiversion concurrency control.

Guido van Rossum pictureJanuary 31, 1956
68 years ago

Guido van Rossum was born, the author of the Python programming language.

CompanyJanuary 31, 2005
19 years ago

SBC announced it would purchase AT&T Corp. for more than $16 Billion.

CompanyJanuary 31, 2008
16 years ago

Acer officially acquires Packard Bell.

BitcoinJanuary 31, 2018
6 years ago

The cryptocurrency EOS was launched.

Acer, Computer, Computer network, Concurrency, Cryptocurrency, Datagram, EOS, IP, Packard Bell, Programming, Programming language, Protocol, Python, SBC, TCP, TCP/IP, UDP, User

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