On this TECHDAY in history, in a demonstration in front of members of the Congress, Samuel F. B. Morse conveyed the first telegraphic message over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, to his partner Alfred Vail. The message that was taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23, and ...

On this TECHDAY in history, Sun Microsystems Inc. formally announced its new programs, Java and HotJava at the SunWorld '95 convention. Java, that was originally developed by James Gosling, was described as a programming language that, combined with the HotJava World Wide Web browser, would offer ...

On this TECHDAY, one of the most famous figure in videogame history, Pac Man, was “born”. The now legendary game, with its "smiling" hero whose goal is to eat dots and with four ghosts trying to catch him. In addition to that, this simplistic videogame features an additional four "power pills" that ...

One of IBM's earliest achievements was introducing the IBM 701, a computer that marked a watershed moment for IBM. The announcement of the IBM 701 marked a shift from the company’s traditional business model of supplying products like punched cards and paper tape to becoming an innovator in ...