Today in computer history: September 27th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on September 27th of every year during the evolution of computers. September 27th is the 271th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 95 days left in the year from this day.

James Wilkinson pictureSeptember 27, 1919
105 years ago

James Wilkinson was born, an English scientist, mathematician, and discoverer of many significant algorithms. Died October 5, 1986 (Age: 67).

Alan Shugart pictureSeptember 27, 1930
94 years ago

Alan Shugart was born, a pioneer of the computer disk drive and founder of Seagate Technology. Died December 12, 2006 (Age: 76).

Larry Wall pictureSeptember 27, 1954
70 years ago

Larry Wall was born, the original developer of Perl.

ComputerSeptember 27, 1983
41 years ago

The GNU project was first announced by Richard Stallman.

TimeSeptember 27, 1993
31 years ago

Time Magazine released its magazine with the cover dedicated to video games with the title Attack of the Video Games.

IntelSeptember 27, 1999
25 years ago

Intel Pentium III 533B and 600B were released.

VirusSeptember 27, 2001
23 years ago

Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly was convicted for the Anna Kournikova virus.

InternetSeptember 27, 2010
14 years ago

Cloudflare launced its web protection and optimization services.

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