Programmer Day is a day to celebrate Programmers and thank them for all that they do.
Programmer Day is the 256th day of every year, September 13th or the 12th on leap years. That day was chosen because A byte can have 256 possible values, bytes are very important to programmers. (source: www.programmerday.info/)Computer Programming is the ability to arrange 1′s and 0′s in such an order that an x86 processor can actually interpret and execute those commands.
Programmer trivia:
In 1954 Fortran, the first higher level programming language, was invented by IBM.
BASIC stood for “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.” It was developed in 1963 at Dartmouth College, but really took hold with the home computer explosion of the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of the first versions of BASIC for a home computer was Altair BASIC, written in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft.
The first commercially available portable computer was the Osborne 1, which debuted in 1981
Nevada provided WiFi for all residents, earning it a Yahoo “Most Wired City in America” award
Apple’s computer outfit’s ad 1984, run only once during Super Bowl XVIII, was named by TV Guide as the best commercial of all time, in 1999.
Burger King was the first fast-food restaurant to offer patrons 20 free minutes of Internet time
Bill Gates appeared on a 1995 cover of Time headlined as “Master of the Universe”
Did you know that the the letters “MS” in MSNBC stands for Microsoft?
The ctrl, alt and delete combination that will reboot the computer if it is held down long enough is also called the “three finger salute.”
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