Once the most popular Hungarian social network site, iWiW rolled back to the fifth place in five years, and as people continued to abandon it, visitors’ statistics shrank to somewhere fifty thousand.
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On 15 July, Michael S. Malone, the well-known technological writer (or science writer) came out with a 560-page, hardcover book with the title The Intel Trinity
In July 1953, IBM announced the launch of the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine
It is a general trend in today’s media world that an increasing number of offline publications are discontinued.
Opened to visitors as a museum in 1993, and visited by great many tourists each year, Bletchley Park in England (Buckinghamshire, www.bletchleypark.org.uk) is renowned for its World War Two relics of the Secrets of War
Konrad Zuse, one of the pioneers in computer science, was born in Berlin 114 years ago, on 22 June 1910.
Sixty years ago on 7 June 1954, Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), one of the greatest scholars in the twentieth century, a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence research, died at the age of 42.
Perhaps the best-known digital game of all times, Tetris (tetris.com), which had such huge cultural impact that is only comparable to Rubik’s cube, was thirty years old on 6 June.
David Braben renowned as a game developer and the co-founder of Raspberry Pi Foundation was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elisabeth II.
Christie’s Auction House failed to sell the world’s first microchip made in 1958. The prototype of the integrated circuit was built by the American physicist Jack Kilby (1923-2005), who worked at Texas Instruments at the time.