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.
DARPA says the first computer-to-computer signal on ARPANET was sent between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. The SEO title is treated as a historical-anniversary a…
In the original BitcoinTalk thread, Laszlo Hanyecz reported on May 22, 2010 that he had successfully traded 10,000 bitcoins for pizza. “Bitcoin Pizza Day” is a later community name for that…
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 the collection as created by Thomas and Ruth Roy.
The inaugural NFT Day announcement says a consortium of Web3 companies launched NFT Day on September 20, 2022 as an annual moment for the community, tied to the 2017 publication of the ERC-…
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 first-party Wellcat calendar lists Send An Electronic Greeting Card Day on May 18.
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 on November 3, while CEDIA independently champions Smart Home Day annually on November 3.
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 FCC states that Congress set June 12, 2009 as the deadline for full-power television stations to stop analog broadcasting; the page title is therefore best treated as a historical-anniv…
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…
