Geek Holiday: International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Created in 2007 by Jo Walton in response to a rant by Howard V. Hendrix about people publishing their works for free on the internet. Geek Events to celebrate on April 23: 1867 – William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine that shows animated pictures by mounting a strip […]
January 8 birthdays of geeky note: 1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author, computer scientist and leading critic of Artificial Intelligence (d. March 5, 2008). He published a natural language processing program in 1966 called ELIZA that became the forerunner of AI technology. Author of Computer Power and Human Reason and subject of the documentary film […]
Geek events to celebrate on January 2: 1860 – A new small planet named Vulcan is hypothesized to exist in orbit between the Mercury and the sun. The planet’s existence was questioned until it was finally negated in 1915 by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Vulcan was later chosen as the fictional home planet for […]
Standard Holiday: New Year’s Day on the Gregorian calendar Geek events to celebrate on January 1: 1925 – The American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way. 1985 – The Internet‘s Domain Name System is created. A high-pitched squee was heard throughout the world. 1995 – The Draupner wave in […]