Geek events to celebrate on January 31: 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. Geeks and nerds everywhere could finally make their broken glasses last a little longer. 1958 – The first successful launch of an American satellite (Explorer 1) into orbit.
Geek events to celebrate on January 30: 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”. (This is more of an anniversary than something to celebrate, unless you’re one of those ass-hats who writes computer virii for your own […]
Geek events to celebrate on January 29: 1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced. Sports statisticians snort in approval.
Technology Holiday: Data Privacy Day Data Privacy Day was officially established in 2009 to raise awareness and promote data privacy education. Take a few minutes to update your privacy settings on social networking sites and learn about why it matters. Geek events to celebrate on January 28: 1855 – The first locomotive runs from the […]
Geek events to celebrate on January 27: 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.. 1967 – More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space. “Outer Space Treaty” becomes the coolest name for anything, ever. 2010 – Apple launches the iPad January 27 birthdays of geeky […]
Standard Holiday: Australia Day It’s Australia Day, mate! Do a search for Australian Geek and see what fun links come up. Geek events to celebrate on January 26: 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
Geek Events to celebrate on January 25: 1947 – The first commercially available video game, called the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device, was patented by Thomas T. Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann. Dedicate your day to worshipping CRT and all that has come after this incredible invention! Or learn more about the history of video […]
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 […]
Geek events to celebrate on January 23: 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members. This is an important step in the validation of music geeks’ obsession.
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 […]