The first and practically the only comprehensive internet programme magazine, called Internet Guide (Internet Kalauz, IK), was published in February 1996, at the dawn of internet use in Hungary.
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It was three years ago on 20 November that the British National Museum of Computing (TNMOS) rebooted the world’s oldest working computer, the Harwell Dekatron, also known as WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell).
The first version of Windows was released for sale at shops on 20 November 1985, and was about to be installed in hundreds of millions of desktop computers in the coming 30 years.
Mentalfloss dug up an episode of the popular American computer science series, the Computer Chronicles from twenty years ago.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit was launched 15 years ago, and by today it has become an online knowledge database that is a “must” for anyone.
The most harmful viruses of the good old past are on display, like in a zoo, at the Malware Museum.
Students at the University of Szeged (SZTE) can learn how to develop two-dimensional computer games similar to the great classics such as Mario, Prince of Persia, or Earthworm Jim.
The server that was switched off recently had been running twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week since1997 without any special maintenance done to it.
The legendary Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, popularly known as MIT, celebrated the 30th anniversary of its establishment at the end of October.
Punched cards and similar systems were used in the field of automation and data processing already in the mid-18th century.