Today in History - November 17, 1970 - Invention of the computer mouse. In 1970, a U.S. patent was issued for the computer mouse - an “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System” (No. 3541541). Doug Engelbart’s invention changed the way humans were to work with computers. The invention transformed computers from specialized tools for [...]

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Today in History - November 10, 1983 - Fred Cohen presented to a security seminar the results of his test on the first documented virus, created as an experiment in computer security.
The first virus in the wild was found earlier in 1981 on the Apple II, spread on floppy disks containing the operating system. [...]

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Today in History, September 12, 1992, Dr. Mae C. Jemison became the first woman of color to successfully travel into space. Dr. Jemison’s accomplishment came over three decades after the first American traveled to space and a decade after the first African American male did so. Through her historic accomplishment, Dr. Jemison made the [...]

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Today in History - August 15, 1914 - First ship through the Panama Canal. Ever since Europeans discovered the new world, sailors dreamed of linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama, a narrow neck of land connecting North and South America in what is now the country of Panama. The [...]

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Today in History - August 12, 1981 - IBM introduces the first PC personal computer for $1,600 base price. The IBM PC was introduced only one year after Bill Lowe, Director of IBM’s Boca Raton division in Florida, was given the go ahead to begin operations. The project was controversial as few believed that [...]

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