Today in computer history: October 11th

IBM files for its first U.S. patent, #998,631.

Paul DeMaine was born, a leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing. Died May 13, 1999 (Age: 74).

Dana Scott was born, professor of computer science, philosophy, and mathematical logic.

Michael Stonebraker was born, a computer scientist, and one of the world's foremost experts in database technology.

IBM introduced the IBM 1311 disk storage drive, which stored 2 million characters.

Salman Khan was born, an American educator, entrepreneur, and founder of the Khan Academy.

The domain baidu.com comes online.

NVIDIA fully made their presence known in the video card market with the release of the GeForce 256 GPU (graphics processing unit). It is considered as the first GPU worldwide and provided full support for DirectX 7. It also featured 32 MB of DDR memory.

Google launched Android Market, an online software market for Android devices. It would later be combined with the two other Google markets (Google Music and Google eBookstore) to become Google Play.

Microsoft announced plans to release Windows Phone 7.

UltraViolet service introduced.

Samsung announces it was permanently discontinuing the production of the Galaxy Note 7 after several of the early versions and recalled versions were catching on fire.