March 24: Ada Lovelace Day
Science/Technology Holiday: Ada Lovelace Day Geek Events to celebrate on March 24: 1896 – A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history
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March 14: Pi Day
Math Holiday: Pi Day Geek events to celebrate on March 14: 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. 1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. March 14 birthdays of geeky note: […]
January 30
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 […]
January 8
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 […]
January 5
Geek events to celebrate on January 5: 1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays 1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time. 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program. […]
January 3
Geek events to celebrate on January 4: 1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated. 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched. January 3 birthdays of geeky note: 1892 – J.R.R. Tolkien, father of modern […]