In 1938 – A New York radio station first used the Philips-Miller system of tape recording on a radio broadcast. In 1984 – Miss Manners confronted her first computer issue. The columnist responded to a reader’s concern about typing personal correspondence on a personal computer. In 1996 – Netscape Communications Corp. announced it had...

In 1609 – Galileo Galilei craftily beat a Dutch telescope maker to an appointment with the Doge of Venice. Galileo impressed the Doge and received a lifetime appointment and a doubled salary. Later that autumn, Galileo pointed his telescope to the Moon, and trouble began. In 1981 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach...

In 1456 – According to a handwritten note by illustrator Heinrich Cremer, the final binding of the Gutenberg Bible took place. In 1995 – Microsoft released Windows 95. During development it was referred to as Windows 4.0 or by the internal codename “Chicago.” In 2001 – WebKit received its first commit of code from...

In 1852 – The first time signals were transmitted by telegraph from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. In 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. 1993 – Nintendo agreed to use Silicon Graphics Inc. technology in a video game player it was developing.

In 1932 – The BBC began public television broadcasts. In 1955 – The first computer user group, SHARE was founded by users of IBM’s Model 704 computer. The first meeting was held in the basement conference room of the RAND Corporation. In 2007 – The Storm botnet sent out a record 57 million virus-infected...