What Happened in May May 01 1964 Dartmouth Professors Launch "Timesharing" System May 02 1983 Microsoft Introduces 2-Button Mouse May 03 1978 Earliest Known Case of Spam May 04 1995 Commodore Bought by German Company May 05 1952 Dummer Proposes Integrated Circuit Concept May 06 1949 British Computer EDSAC Performs First Calculation May 07 1895 Steiger Gets "Millionaire" Patent May 08 1995 Newspapers Form New Century Network May 09 1967 New Building for National Center for Atmospheric Research May 10 1954 Texas Instruments Introduces New Transistor May 11 1979 "VisiCalc" Given First Public Demonstration. May 11 1997 IBM's Deep Blue Beats World's Best Chess Player May 12 1941 Zuse Completes Z3 Machine May 12 1939 First Appropriation for Harvard Mark I May 13 1986 Network General Corporation Founded May 14 1992 Texas Instruments Announces Its Own 486 Microprocessor Chip May 15 2011 Sony Begins Restoration of Its PlayStation Network after Cyber Attack May 16 1938 Birthday of Ivan Sutherland, Inventor and Developer of Interactive Computer Graphics May 17 1943 US Army and University of Pennsylvania Sign Contract to Develop ENIAC May 18 1998 US Justice Department Files Antitrust Lawsuit against Microsoft May 19 2006 Apple 'Cube' Shop Opens in Big Apple May 20 1995 Microsoft and Intuit Abandon Merger May 21 1952 IBM Announces Its First Electronic Computer, the Model 701 May 22 1973 Xerox Researcher Proposes "Ethernet" May 23 1994 Java Development Begins in Earnest May 24 1961 MIT's Clark Begins Work on LINC Computer May 25 1994 First International World Wide Web Conference May 26 1995 Gates Declares Internet "Most Important Single Development" May 27 1959 MIT Shuts Down "Whirlwind" Computer May 28 1959 Committee Forms to Develop New Language May 29 1985 Eastman Kodak Co. Introduces Electronic Publishing System May 30 1996 AT&T Announces Video Phone Call System May 31 1926 BASIC Language Co-Inventor Born
