Today in computer history: June 20th
Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on June 20th of every year during the evolution of computers. June 20th is the 172th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 194 days left in the year from this day.
89 years ago
Fujitsu was established.
70 years ago
Karlheinz Brandenburg was born, the Audio engineer who has contributed to the audio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3.
25 years ago
The movie Pirates of Silicon Valley was released.
10 years ago
Google announces it will acquire Dropcam, the video home monitoring company for $555 million.
10 years ago
Microsoft released the Surface Pro 3.
8 years ago
Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer from China topped the list of the world's most powerful computer. The computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second.
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