Digital Innovation Days

Vincent Giraud
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Digital Innovation Days Podcast

Impactful digital innovation that happened on this day.

  1. 11 December 2008 - Google releases Chrome

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    11 December 2008 - Google releases Chrome

    Google marked the release of its web browser on the 11th of December, 2008, when it launched the first stable public version of Chrome. Although the tech giant had previously released 3 versions for testing, they were beta versions. With the release of version 1, Chrome entered a market where users were growing frustrated with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox was gaining momentum. By 2013, Chrome was dominating the web browser industry, clearly surpassing Internet Explorer and Firefox.Th...

    2 min
  2. 18 December 1987 - First release of Perl

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    18 December 1987 - First release of Perl

    Larry Wall released the general-purpose programming language Perl on the 18th of December, 1987. It was meant to offer text manipulation, web development, network programming, system administration, and Graphics User Interface (GUI) development, among other tasks. With its tagline, “easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible”, Perl was designed to make computer programming easier and faster.With the advent of the web, Perl also gained momentum. In fact, it became the domina...

    2 min
  3. 24 December 1990 - First ever web server release

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    24 December 1990 - First ever web server release

    When the world’s first ever web server (http://info.cern.ch/) went live at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) on the 24th of December, 1990, it marked the creation of one of the four essentials of the World Wide Web: HTML, web protocol, web browser, and web server. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, set up a NeXT computer at CERN as the first ever server. However, this web server was more of a small intranet for information sharing among CERN physicists ra...

    3 min
  4. 1 January 1985 - Domain Name System created

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    1 January 1985 - Domain Name System created

    The creation of the Domain Name System (DNS) on the 1st of January, 1985 transformed the way the internet was browsed. Essentially the phonebook of the internet, the DNS allowed users to access information using domain names instead of IP addresses.Each machine or device connected to the internet has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address that is used to find and interact with a particular device. These IP addresses can be in the IPv4 format (such as 192.168.1.1) or the newer, alphanumeric I...

    2 min
  5. 3 January 2009 - Bitcoin launched

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    3 January 2009 - Bitcoin launched

    When Bitcoin was created by its mysterious pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto on the 3rd of January, 2009, the world was introduced to a completely new form of currency - cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is a form of binary data which acts as a payment medium. Since then, thousands of cryptocurrencies have been launched taking the current total to over 7,812. However, Bitcoin remains the most popular and traded cryptocurrency in the industry. In fact, the price movement of Bitcoin strongly...

    3 min
  6. 9 January 2007 - Apple introduces iPhone

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    9 January 2007 - Apple introduces iPhone

    There are very few technological events in recent history that can rival the introduction of the iPhone by Apple on the 9th of January, 2007. Dubbing it the “reinvention of the phone”, the company claimed that it was a revolutionary product that was five years ahead of any other mobile phone. Starting at $499, this first-generation iPhone offered a 3.5-inch diagonal screen, had a 2-megapixel camera, and featured the then-new multitouch features. This device was marketed as a combination of th...

    3 min
  7. 15 January 2001 - Wikipedia goes online

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    15 January 2001 - Wikipedia goes online

    On the 15th of January, 2001, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia, a free and collaborative online encyclopedia. Written and edited by the internet community, it is the largest of its type of websites and is available in over 300 languages besides English. With more than 6.3 million articles and 42 million users, it is ranked among the most visited sites on the internet today.In 2000, Bomis, a web advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, among others, launched Nupedia. This was a fr...

    3 min
  8. 22 January 1984 - Macintosh introduced

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    22 January 1984 - Macintosh introduced

    The introduction of Macintosh by Apple on the 22nd of January, 1984, revolutionised the computing industry by making computers easy to use for any and everyone, not just experts. The Macintosh, or Mac as it is now known, is a series of several lines of personal computers, developed by Apple. The original Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer that included two known yet unpopular features at the time - mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) instead of the command-...

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Impactful digital innovation that happened on this day.

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  • Creator
    Vincent Giraud
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Vincent Giraud
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    Digital Innovation Days

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