Posts Tagged ‘computers’

January 24

Geek events to celebrate on January 24: 1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. January 24 birthdays of geeky note: 1754 – Andrew Ellicott, a U.S. surveyor who surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Peter) Charles L’Enfant‘s work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and mentored Meriwether […]

January 22

Geeky events to celebrate on January 21: 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space. 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to utilize the computer mouse and a window-based graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984” television commercial. January 22 birthdays […]