Today in computer history: January 26th
Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on January 26th of every year during the evolution of computers. January 26th is the 26th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 340 days left in the year from this day.
January 26, 193193 years ago
Eiichi Goto was born, a Japanese computer scientist known for inventing one of the first general-purpose computers in Japan. Died June 12, 2005 (Age: 74).
January 26, 194183 years ago
Barbara Simons was born, an American computer scientist and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
January 26, 194777 years ago
Robert Cailliau was born, a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who helped develop the World Wide Web.
January 26, 198341 years ago
Lotus begins selling the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.
January 26, 199430 years ago
Novell transferred its database software product to Btrieve.
January 26, 199826 years ago
Compaq Computer purchases Digital Equipment Corporation for $9.6 billion.
January 26, 200024 years ago
XHTML was released.
January 26, 200618 years ago
JQuery was first released.
January 26, 201410 years ago
Google announces it has agreed to acquire DeepMind Technologies for $650 million.
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