2000 President Bill Clinton signs the Child Internet Protection Act into law. The law is implemented to set rules for the web to expose them to pornography and sexual content. In 2003 the law will b

1996 Steve Jobs started Apple. When he left Apple, he started NeXT. When Apple started to fall, Steve Jobs came back. Of course, having 2 computer companies is not a good idea So why not buy it ou

1974 Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) puts out the first ever Do it yourself Altair 8800. You would get it through Popular Mechanics Magazine, then assemble it yourself. This is

1926 The term Photon is coined. Of course a photon is the basic unit of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Newton Lewis is the one who coins the term. HTML 4.0 is published

1989 The first full episode of the Simpsons airs on FOX TV network. 21 years and 1 movie later, the show still continues on strong. The cast stayed pretty much the same since 89. The Simpsons starte

1994 Although its only been in mainstream news for a couple years, the Large Hadron Collider has actually been around for many years now. On this day, for example,

1995 At the turn of the Internet age, researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation, led by Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier and Michael Burrows, created a web crawler and indexer algorithm. The web progr

1994 The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) held its first meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Albert Vezza and

1982 After a decent success of the Atari 400/800 line the company noticed the console was looking a little old. After all, the Atari 400 actually discolors upon UV light. The 400s non-tactile key

1980 Apple Computer goes up for their Initial Public Offering and makes a statement in the market. Using the symbol