I must find out the following dates (day, month, year):

Birthday (day/month/year)of Larry Ellison (Oracle)
Birthday (day/month/year)of Scott McNeally (Sun)
Birthday (day/month/year)of Steve Jobs (Apple)
Birthday (day/month/year) of Tim Berners-Lee (WWW)
The day/month/year the first e-mail has been sent
The day/month/year Linux has been created
The day/month/year Microsoft was founded
The day/month/year Cisco was founded
The day/month/year Macromedia was founded
The day/month/year Oracle was founded
The day/month/year the first chip has been created
The day/month/year the first Computer has been created
The day/month/year the first PC has been created
The day/month/year the Internet has been created
The day/month/year the first chip has been created
The day/month/year the Macromedia Flash has been released
The day/month/year the first domain was registered (.com, .org...)
The day/month/year the first virus was discovered
The day/month/year Java has been created
The day/month/year Netscape went public (Nasdaq)
The day/month/year Nasdaq "crashed" in 2000
The day/month/year Greenspan said the famous phrase about "irrational
exhuberance"
The day/month/year the Floppy disk has been created
The day/month/year the hard disk has been created
The day/month/year the CD-ROM has been created
The day/month/year the e-commerce achieved 1 billion (or any other
correlated interesting date...) worldwide

If you have some other very interesting dates for my technology
calendar, I'd accept the suggestions very happily (if you can't find
two or three dates I asked above, send some other suggestions! :) )!
If you give me your mail address, I'll send you the calendar when
printed.

Hi kischi, 

The following is the result of my research for the information you have requested. 

As you will note, I was able to locate the exact dates for many of the
events you requested. However, there are some where the dates are
limited, and only the year is available. I have also included the
sources of reference for the dates.



Birthday (day/month/year)of Larry Ellison (Oracle)

August 17, 1944

CRN
http://www.crn.com/sections/special/supplement/816/816p35_hof.asp

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Birthday (day/month/year)of Scott McNeally (Sun)

November 13, 1954 

Rotten Deadpool
http://deadpool.rotten.com/occupations/business.html

RIT Information Technology Department: Introduction to Multimedia
http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/320/320-
031/archives/inclass_exercise_internet_research.php

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Birthday (day/month/year)of Steve Jobs (Apple)

February 24, 1955

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/16/jobs/

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Birthday (day/month/year) of Tim Berners-Lee (WWW)

June 8, 1955

K Composite
http://www.kcomposite.com/history/tim-berners-lee.html

HW Wilson Company   
http://www.hwwilson.com/print/leaders_info_TBernersdlee.htm

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The day/month/year the first e-mail has been sent

late 1971

"Tomlinson himself cannot say with any degree of certainty what the
first email message read. To be frank, he doesn't even remember the
actual date of the first sending. It was in late 1971..."

Electric Escape: Email Turns 30
http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/closet/silly/Email-Turns-30.html


"In late 1971, Tomlinson sent the first message between two machines
that were side-by-side in his Cambridge, MA lab. He sent messages back
and forth from one machine to the other until he was satisfied that
the program worked. The first email message he sent out of the lab was
to the rest of his group announcing the existence of network email and
explaining how to use it, including the use of the @ sign to separate
the user's name from the host computer name. Now there was nothing to
prevent the sending of messages out to the wider network."

BBN Technologies
http://www.bbn.com/email/

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The day/month/year Linux has been created

October 5, 1991

LinuxFocus
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November1997/article1.html

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The day/month/year Microsoft was founded

April 4, 1975 

Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/6-26msfdcbg.asp

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The day/month/year Cisco was founded

December 10, 1984

Cisco
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/corpfact.html
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/750/cisco_bb.htm

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The day/month/year Macromedia was founded

1983

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The day/month/year Oracle was founded

June 16,1977

Oracle
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/investor_relations/Q2FY03Q&R.pdf.
www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/ellisonl.html

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The day/month/year the first chip has been created

September 12, 1958

"The first working integrated circuit,invented by Jack St. Clair Kilby
of Texas Instruments, was demonstrated on September 12, 1958."

ASME
http://www.asme.org/history/brochures/h160.pdf.


"Kilby called his first chip the phase-shift oscillator. Not a
completely wireless solution, the oscillator ran via connections
carried on tiny gold
wires. Kilby demonstrated his concept to TI executives in September 1958."

Smart Computing: Jack St. Clair Kilby
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=17826&RefType=Encyclopedia


"During his first summer as an employee at Texas Instruments in 1958,
because Kilby had not accrued enough vacation time, he stayed back at
the lab when many of his colleagues were taking their summer
vacations. During this quiet time at the lab, Kilby conceived of, and
constructed the first electronic circuit in which all of the
components, both passive and active, were fabricated on a single piece
of semiconductor substrate. This invention had enormous impact upon
every area of human activity and became known as "the chip that
changed the world.""

The Kilby International Awards Foundation
http://www.kilby.org/

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The day/month/year the first Computer has been created

February 14, 1946

"On February 14th 1946, at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Pennsylvania, the late John W. Mauchly and J.
Presper Eckert first demonstrated the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer). It was the first electronic general-purpose
programmable computer."

George Mason Community: ENIAC
http://mason.gmu.edu/~gnievin/ENIAC.html


"In 1941, a small band of electrical engineers set out to turn a room
full of wires and vacuum tubes into the world's first functioning
computer. The
technology pioneers succeeded on February 14, 1946, at the University
of Pennsylvania.The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer known
as ENIAC was 100 feet long, 10 feet high and weighed 30 tons."

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9602/eniac/

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The day/month/year the first PC has been created

1950

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The day/month/year the Internet has been created

January 2, 1969 

Bradford College
http://www.bilk.ac.uk/college/helpweb/frequent.htm

What is the Internet?
http://colos1.fri.uni-lj.si/~sis/computing/SYSTEM_SOFTWARE/INTERNET/top0050.htm

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The day/month/year the Macromedia Flash has been released

December 1996 

"So in December 1996, we sold FutureWave Software to Macromedia, and
FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0."

Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/john_gay/page04.html


"1996 Macromedia purchases FutureWave and later releases Macromedia Flash 1.0" 

Computer Hope
http://www.computerhope.com/history/19902000.htm

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The day/month/year the first domain was registered (.com, .org...)

March 15, 1985

LookSmart
http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4467/is_3_55/ai_72303018

Amusing Facts 
http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Science_and_Technology/more4.html

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The day/month/year the first virus was discovered

mid 1981

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The day/month/year Java has been created

May 23, 1995

Sun Microsystems
http://java.sun.com/features/1998/05/birthday.html

IT Asio One
http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news004_20040504.html

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The day/month/year Netscape went public (Nasdaq)

August 9, 1995

PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,13531,pg,13,00.asp

Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/80/neweconomy_history.html

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The day/month/year Nasdaq "crashed" in 2000

April 14, 2000

The Tax Prophet
http://www.taxprophet.com/faq/200430.htm

NetLingo
http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=April%2014%2C%202000

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The day/month/year Greenspan said the famous phrase about "irrational exhuberance"

December 5, 1996 

Irrational Exuberance
http://www.irrationalexuberance.com/

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The day/month/year the Floppy disk has been created

1967

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The day/month/year the hard disk has been created

1956

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The day/month/year the CD-ROM has been created

1984 

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Here are some suggestions for some interesting dates you might find useful:



Using the internet, when were the first packets sent?

October 29, 1969

"The first person to use the Internet was Charley Kline at UCLA. The
first packets were sent on Oct 29, 1969. The system crashed as he
reached the G in LOGIN!"

The Webmaster's Bureau
http://web-bureau.com/modules/ihist.php

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When was the first PC with color introduced?

April 20, 1977

"Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer Company in 1976
after designing and constructing a personal computer in Job's garage.
They soon moved on to develop the Apple II, the first personal
computer to feature built in programming, color graphics, and
increased memory capacity compared to the Altair. First introduced on
April 20, 1977, the Apple II was an almost immediate success, and is
credited with being a ground-breaking model for home computers."

ibiblio: Personal Computer
http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/evolution/pc.html

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When was Windows first released?

November 20, 1985

Avontech 
http://www.avontech.co.uk/advice/historyofwindows.htm

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Birthday (day/month/year)of Bill Gates.

October 28, 1955

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2000/microsoft/633910.stm

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The day/month/year Apple Computer Inc was founded

April 1, 1976 

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/16/jobs/

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The day/month/year IBM introduced its first PC

August 12, 1981

Computer History
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/august/12/index.page

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The day/month/year WebTV became available in the United States.

September 18, 1996

Club WebTV
http://vega.webtv.net/corp/clubwebtv/cwtv0798/founders.html

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I hope the information provided is helpful. If you have any questions
regarding my answer please don?t hesitate to ask before rating it.

Best of luck on your project!

Rainbow

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Clarification of Answer by rainbow-ga on 26 May 2004 14:16 PDT

Hi kischi,

I would like to make a correction for one of the events.

The day/month/year the first Computer has been created


"The idea of building an electronic digital computer came to him while
he was sitting in a tavern.
(...)
"As Dr. Atanasoff worked on his computer project, he asked a colleague
to recommend a graduate student to assist him with his project. The
graduate student that was introduced to him was Clifford Berry. Berry
was gifted electrical engineer and had very similar background as Dr.
Atanasoff did. They both got along almost immediately.

In December 1939, the first prototype of the Atanasoff Berry Computer
(ABC) was ready. The ABC showed some of the potentials of a computer
and it amazed the University. So in 1939, Dr. Atanasoff and his
assistant Clifford Berry built the world's first electronic digital
computer. With the first prototype working well, Dr. Atanasoff wanted
to improve on prototype as well as get patents for the Atanasoff Berry
Computer. Obtaining the patents were a slow process that ultimately
caused Dr. Atanasoff the recognition that he deserved.

In 1940 Dr. Atanasoff attended a lecture given by Dr. John W. Mauchly.
They talked for some time and Dr. Mauchly was very intrigued with Dr.
Atanasoff's electronic digital computer. Dr. Mauchly wanted to see the
ABC for himself and Dr. Atanasoff agreed. This decision by Dr.
Atanasoff would be a mistake since Dr. Mauchly later used many of Dr.
Atanasoff's ideas in the design of the ENIAC. The ENIAC is falsely
considered by most people as the world's first electronic digital
computer designed by Dr. Mauchly and Dr. Eckert. Charges of piracy
were later brought against Dr. Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC. A
long trial followed and it was not until 1972 that Dr. Atanasoff was
given the recognition he so deserved. U.S. District Judge Earl R.
Larson ruled that the ENIAC was "derived" from the ideas of Dr.
Atanasoff. Although Judge Larson did not explicitly say that Dr.
Mauchly "stole" Dr. Atanasoff's ideas, Judge Larson did say that Dr.
Mauchly had use many of Dr. Atanasoff's ideas on the ABC to design the
ENIAC. When the trial finally ended, Dr. Atanasoff was given credit as
the inventor of the electronic digital computer."

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/do_Atanasoff.html

John Atanasoff 
http://www.johnatanasoff.com/the_process.php


There is no specific date given for the invention. 

Thanks to my colleague aceresearcher for informing me of the correction.

Best regards,
Rainbow

Good. Thanks.