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.
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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.
Marvin Minsky, a legendary figure in artificial intelligence (AI) research, died on 24 January. Numerous obituaries have been published to pay tribute since then. Also in tribute to Minsky, a 25-minute interview with him done by Ray Kurzweil himself in 2010 was published on Kurzweil’s portal.
At the age of 88, Marvin Minsky, one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence research, passed away on 24 January.