Today in computer history: October 15th

Below are technology and computer-related events that happened on October 15th of every year during the evolution of computers. October 15th is the 289th day of 2024, which is a leap year. There are 77 days left in the year from this day.

Steve Crocker pictureOctober 15, 1944
80 years ago

Steve Crocker was born, who created the first FTC and help create the ARPANET protocols.

John Ousterhout pictureOctober 15, 1954
70 years ago

John Ousterhout was born, a Professor of computer science at University of California where he created Tcl scripting language and Tk platform.

CodeOctober 15, 1956
68 years ago

The programming language FORTRAN was introduced to the public.

David Hansson pictureOctober 15, 1979
45 years ago

David Hansson was born, a Danish computer programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki.

GameOctober 15, 1997
27 years ago

The game Age of Empires was released by Ensemble Studios.

CompanyOctober 15, 1998
26 years ago

MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. announced that it had completed the acquisition of SpryNet from America Online.

AdobeOctober 15, 2008
16 years ago

Adobe Photoshop CS4 (11.0) was released.

YouTubeOctober 15, 2012
12 years ago

YouTube breaks Internet record with 8 million watching Felix Baumgartner break record by jumping from 128,100 feet.

ComputerOctober 15, 2015
9 years ago

Tesla announced that qualifying Tesla Model S cars would be receiving the Autopilot update that allows the Tesla cars to assist the driver.

ComputerOctober 15, 2019
5 years ago

Sigma Designs announced its dissolution and liquidation of its assets.

GoogleOctober 15, 2020
4 years ago

Google released the Pixel 5.

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