May 19, 1955 — James Gosling Was Born
James Gosling is considered the main creator of Java, but his career included many other important achievements.
May 19
Latest post
May 19, 1955 — James Gosling Was Born
James Gosling is considered the main creator of Java, but his career included many other important achievements.
May 19
Recent posts
May 18, 2012 — Facebook IPO
On May 18, 2012, Facebook held one of the most talked-about IPOs in tech history. Mark Zuckerberg's company listed its shares on the NASDAQ exchange.
May 18
May 17, 2009 — Minecraft Became Publicly Available
On May 17, 2009, Markus Persson released the first public version of Minecraft — a sandbox without goals, a world without limits, and a development model that changed the industry.
May 17
May 16, 1938 — Ivan Sutherland Was Born
Ivan Sutherland was born on May 16, 1938. He is often called one of the creators of modern computer graphics. In 1963 he built Sketchpad — a program that first demonstrated interactive graphics, windows, and object-oriented manipulation.
May 16
May 15, 1929 — Frank Heart Was Born
Frank Heart was born on May 15, 1929 — an engineer without whom ARPANET might have remained just a beautiful theory. He led the BBN team that built the first IMP network nodes, the direct ancestors of modern routers.
May 15
May 14, 1984 — Mark Zuckerberg Was Born
On May 14, 1984, Mark Zuckerberg was born — the person who built a website for Harvard students to communicate, then turned it into one of the most influential platforms in the history of the internet.
May 14
May 13, 2015 — Release of Discord
Discord officially launched on May 13, 2015. Today it is hard to imagine the internet without it — a place where gaming clans, open source projects, and friend groups all make their home.
May 13
May 12, 1989 — Release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
One of the most notable releases in gaming history: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES arrived at the peak of the franchise's popularity and became one of the hardest games of its generation.
May 12
May 11, 1930 — Edsger Dijkstra Was Born
Edsger Dijkstra was born on May 11, 1930. Creator of the famous shortest-path algorithm, he spent his career arguing that programming is a mathematical discipline — and left behind ideas that still shape computer science today.
May 11
May 10, 1954 — Presentation of the Silicon Transistor
On May 10, 1954, Texas Instruments presented the silicon transistor at an IRE conference — the moment silicon began replacing germanium and set the foundation for every processor built since.
May 10
June 2026
Calendar →
Su
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Popular posts
May 19, 1955 — James Gosling Was Born
James Gosling is considered the main creator of Java, but his career included many other important achievements.
May 19
May 18, 2012 — Facebook IPO
On May 18, 2012, Facebook held one of the most talked-about IPOs in tech history. Mark Zuckerberg's company listed its shares on the NASDAQ exchange.
May 18