This Month In the History of Information Technologies

This Month In the History of Information Technologies

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Microsoft and Netscape

Microsoft and Netscape

The tidal waves of the PC, Internet, AI

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Today in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the home of MITS, the company which developed the Altair 8800 PC for which they wrote a version of the BASIC programming language. 

Gates and Allen, 1981

Today in 1994, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark incorporated the Mosaic Communications Corporation, later renamed Netsc…

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