Today in computer history: March 15th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on March 15th of every year during the evolution of computers. March 15th is the 75th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 291 days left in the year from this day.

Gottfried Ungerboeck pictureMarch 15, 1940
84 years ago

Gottfried Ungerboeck was born, an Australian inventor who invented trellis coded modulation.

Craig Reynolds pictureMarch 15, 1953
71 years ago

Craig Reynolds was born, the creator of Boids artificial life simulation.

DomainMarch 15, 1985
39 years ago

The first Internet domain symbolics.com was registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company.

ComputerMarch 15, 2000
24 years ago

Track Down (Takedown outside the USA) was released.

CompanyMarch 15, 2013
11 years ago

Belkin purchased the Linksys brand of networking equipment from Cisco.

MicrosoftMarch 15, 2013
11 years ago

Microsoft discontinued Messenger in favor of Skype.

GoogleMarch 15, 2016
8 years ago

Google announced it would shut down Picasa.

Belkin, Cisco, COD, Computer, Discontinue, Domain, Google, Internet, Inventor, Linksys, Messenger, Microsoft, Modulation, Network, Released, Simulation, Skype, Track

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