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TECHDAY 31 March First electrically lit city in the world
Wabash, Indiana | First electrically lit city | Techday, March 31st The city council of Wabash, Indiana, agreed to a test of electrical street lights in 1880. On this TECHDAY in history, on March 31st 1880, the town became the first electrically lit city in the world as the residents watched four 3,000-candle power ...

TECHDAY 30 March 1951 UNIVAC 1 is unveiled!
UNIVAC 1 is unveiled! | The UNIVAC 1 launch | Techday, March 30th On this TECHDAY in history, March 30th 1951, the first commercial computer is unveiled. Remington Rand's UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I), now owned by UNISYS, was built by ENIAC designers John Mochley and John Eckert at the request of the ...

TECHDAY 29 March Award for CGI animated film
CGI animated film award | Techday, March 29th On this TECHDAY in history, on March 29th 1989, Pixar won an Academy Award for Tin Toy, the first entirely computer-animated work to win in the best animated short film category. Pixar, now a division of Disney, continued its success with a string of shorts. The first ...

TECHDAY 28 March 1986 “Game on” for Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA founded | "Game on" for Ubisoft | Techday, March 28th For today's TECHDAY, we introduce you to Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. The company was formally founded by the five Guillemot brothers on March 28th 1986. The name Ubisoft was selected because it symbolized "ubiquitous software". Ubisoft ...

TECHDAY 27 March Altair World Computer Conference
Altair World Computer Conference | Techday, March 27th On this TECHDAY in history, on March 27th 1976, Bill Gates opened the First Annual Altair World Computer Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MITS, the company that developed Altair, had set up shop in the southwestern city to develop its computer kit, which ...

TECHDAY 26 March 1973 Larry Page was born
Google cofounder's birthday | Larry Page was born | Techday, March 26th On this TECHDAY in history, on March 26th 1973, Larry Page, Google developer and co-founder (along with Sergey Brin) in 1998, was born in Michigan, USA. Page was the chief executive officer of Google from 1997 until 2001 (stepping down in ...

TECHDAY 25 March The world’s first “Wiki”
The WikiWikiWeb launch | The world's first "Wiki" | Techday, March 25th On this TECHDAY in history, on March 25th 1995, Ward Cunningham created the first “Wiki”. That was WikiWikiWeb, the first website where users could customize content. Cunningham created the first "software wiki" (based on the Perl language) a ...

TECHDAY 24 March Apple is back in the picture!
The Mac OS X launch | Apple is back in the picture! | Techday, March 24th On this TECHDAY in history, on March 24th 2001, the Mac OS X operating system was introduced. At the end of 1997 Apple, to escape from a difficult position, acquired the NeXT software company, which not only delivered the next-generation OS ...

TECHDAY 23 March 2003 Game boy Advance SP
Game boy Advance SP first release | Techday, March 23rd On this Techday in history, on March 23rd 2003, the special edition of Nintendo's highly successful portable game console, Game boy Advance SP, goes on sale in the US for $99. It's the last version of the Gameboy before the release of its successor. The ...