Observances concerning computing, digital culture, communications technology, internet issues and technical innovation.
Technology observances move quickly because products, standards and policy can change. The authority record establishes the observance identity; current technical claims should be checked separately.
This facet can contain both institutional technology days and informal digital-culture observances, so source quality and scope should remain visible.
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DARPA and UCLA document the first host-to-host ARPANET message on October 29, 1969. “National Internet Day” is retained only as a search/legacy alias for this historical anniversary, not as…
The Computer History Museum records that Apple released the Macintosh on 24 January 1984.
The first-party Wellcat Holidays calendar lists Name Your PC Day on November 20 and identifies Thomas and Ruth Roy as creators of the collection; technical device-naming sources are support…
Dapper Labs, Flow and an industry consortium launched the first official NFT Day for September 20, 2022. The date commemorates an original non-fungible-token standard draft dated September…
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery records Samuel Finley Breese Morse’s birth date as 27 April 1791 and identifies him with the invention of the telegraph.
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History records that the Sholes, Glidden & Soule typewriter patent model was awarded U.S. Patent No. 79,265 on 23 June 1868.
DARPA and UCLA document the first host-to-host ARPANET message on October 29, 1969. “National Internet Day” is retained only as a search/legacy alias for this historical anniversary, not as…
The Computer History Museum records that Apple released the Macintosh on 24 January 1984.
The first-party Wellcat Holidays calendar lists Name Your PC Day on November 20 and identifies Thomas and Ruth Roy as creators of the collection; technical device-naming sources are support…
Dapper Labs, Flow and an industry consortium launched the first official NFT Day for September 20, 2022. The date commemorates an original non-fungible-token standard draft dated September…
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery records Samuel Finley Breese Morse’s birth date as 27 April 1791 and identifies him with the invention of the telegraph.
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History records that the Sholes, Glidden & Soule typewriter patent model was awarded U.S. Patent No. 79,265 on 23 June 1868.
National Smart Home states that it founded Smart Home Day; its contemporaneous 2018 release calls November 3, 2018 the first annual National #SmartHomeDay, and CEDIA currently champions Nov…
Michigan government states that Mashable launched Social Media Day in June 2010 and documents 30 June as the annual date, including a 2026 Michigan proclamation.
The original U.S. Patent No. 6,281 text identifies Walter Hunt’s dress-pin invention and dates the patent 10 April 1849; Smithsonian collections also identify Hunt with the safety-pin inven…
