#ITHistory

Wer erinnert sich noch an den Netscape Navigator und die 1997 erschienene Netscape Communicator Suite?

1998 entstand aus der Freigabe des Netscape-Quellcodes das Mozilla-Projekt. Daraus entwickelten sich später Firefox und Thunderbird.

#onthisday in 1952, Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver were granted US Patent 2,612,994: the barcode. Woodland got the idea drawing Morse code dots and dashes in beach sand. The first UPC scan, in 1974, was a pack of Wrigley's gum. #ITHistory

In early 1944, Colossus Mark 1 went to work at Bletchley Park. Built by Tommy Flowers' Post Office team with some 1,600 valves, it helped break the German Lorenz cipher and is regarded as the first programmable electronic digital computer. #ITHistory

In 1958, the first SAGE direction center went operational at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. Its 250-ton AN/FSQ-7 computer crunched radar data sent over phone lines in real time, a Cold War giant of vacuum tubes guarding the sky. #ITHistory

While the 1969 Sharp QT-8D marked a shift toward LSI-based desktop calculators, integrated circuits had already powered aerospace and computing for years. It wasn't the IC's debut, but a pivotal moment in the miniaturization of office technology! #ITHistory

In 2015, the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B arrived with a quad-core processor, giving the low-cost computing movement a major performance boost. It wasn't the start of the hobbyist revolution, but it sure made DIY desktop projects a lot more capable! #ITHistory #RaspberryPi

The Data General Nova 1200, introduced in 1970, was a landmark in 16-bit minicomputer design. By shrinking the footprint of powerful computing, it brought enterprise-grade processing to labs and factories, paving the way for smaller hardware. #ITHistory

In 1948, Bell Labs officially unveiled the point-contact transistor, invented by Bardeen and Brattain. By replacing bulky vacuum tubes with semiconductors, this breakthrough launched the solid-state era and our digital future. #ITHistory