Bjarne Stroustrup invented C++ in 1983 while working at Bell Labs, improving on the original C language. An extension to C, it is a descendent of the language B developed by Ken Thompson for the Unix operating system, and unlike C it is an object oriented language.
This Day In Tech History
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949More Tech History
Google, now the most popular search engine, is created.
The government creates ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names) to privatize the registration of domain names.
The Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act becomes law.
Microsoft releases Windows 98.
Compaq announces acquisition of Digital Equipment Corporation.
eMachines releases low priced home PCs and becomes the number five retailer in four months.
MySQL is released.
Virtualization company VMware is founded.
Apple introduces the iMac.
Seminal sci-fi real time strategy game StarCraft is released.
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act becomes law in the U.S.