Today in computer history: January 31

The 31th day of 2023. There are 334 days left in the year from this day.

David Reed pictureJanuary 31, 1952
71 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
67 years ago

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

CompanyJanuary 31, 2005
18 years ago

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

CompanyJanuary 31, 2008
15 years ago

Acer officially acquires Packard Bell.

BitcoinJanuary 31, 2018
5 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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