William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, and philanthropist. Continue reading
Category: Computers
Three Heads of State to meet online
When the internet was just a baby, 3 Heads of state of 3 countries met online for 10 minute chat, on January 17, 1996. Continue reading
Canada Was First to place all it’s Universities online
Canada was the First Nation to place all it’s Universities on the Internet. Continue reading
Software and Corporation that change the computer world
In 1975, in Seattle, WA, USA, two Americans, William Henry “Bill” Gates III, age 19, and Paul Gardner Allen, age 22, developed a program for the Altair 8800 personal computer to understand software written in the BASIC computer language. Continue reading
Canadian patent issues for Spreadsheet Program
LANPAR was the first spreadsheet program for manipulating matrices of numbers, created by Canadian programmers, RenÈ Pardo and Remy Landau, in 1969/1970 while working at LANPAR Ltd. Continue reading
Internet hosts exceeded 10,000
1987 was the year of which Internet hosts exceeded 10,000 Continue reading
Fiber-optic Internet Available across Canada
CA Net 3, Is the fibre-optic System which offers faster and more reliable connections to the Internet, inaugurated by Canada in 1998. Continue reading
Internet Index Created by Canadians
In the days before the Internet explosion of 1994/95, three Canadians, Bill Heelan, Alan Emtage and Peter Deutsch, all whom were at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, they created a network software called Archie in 1989. Continue reading
The term “Cyberspace” first appeared in a 1984 novel
Cyberspace a word that was used in the early years of the Internet, and we all know what it is when we here it… But Continue reading
Whole Number Factored by Automatic Calculator
The discovery of the device was at the Observatoire du Bordeaux, located in Floirac, France, it was found, (hidden away for some 50 years) by the following people in 1993: