The term "nerd" comes from an original spelling "knurd." The term is originated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in t...

1993 is the year the World Wide Web makes its prolific debut. In January 1993, there are only fifty web servers in existence. By October 199...

The IEEE publishes the 802.11 networking standard in 1997 as an over-the-air interface between a wireless client and an access point. As the...

In order to cope with a personal shortcoming, Stanford University researcher Les Earnest develops the first automated spell checker in 1966....

Bell Labs engineers Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie develop the C language in the early 1970s. Thompson first develops the language "B...

The Apache web server is established in February 1995 when a small group of webmasters begin coordinating updates and patches to the public ...

Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard develop Simula at the Norwegian Computing Center in the mid 1960s. Simula is designed to process complex ...