Hacker Holidays... what historical events would be good holidays?

[TheCotMan]

What events in history (with respect to hacking) should be commemorated every year like a holiday? What would you choose?
The first Apple personal Computer?
Birthday of Babbage? Lovelace? Go-Live Date for ENIAC?
Gutenberg?
Memorable Physicist birthdays?
Birth of Vacuum tube? Transistor?IC? VHSIC? multi-core?
First Defcon Event?

What about "inventions" by accident or serendipity?

Protocols, standards, RFC? (TCP/IP? HTML? HTTP? Telnet? FTP? ssh?

Duct tape first sold?

Code broken? Patent expiration?

You get the idea. Come up with events and dates they should be celebrated, and maybe a reason why.

[astcell]

June 15 (1911) - IBM Incorporates
June 19 (1623) - Blaise Pascal's birthday
December 9 (1906) - Grace Hopper's birthday
...

[Ridirich]

29 October 1969 - Creation of ARPANET(Date that the first link was established)

1 January 1983 - Creation of the Internet

[bascule]

April 7th, 1969 - RFC 1 is published

[renderman]

June 23, 1912 - Alan Turing's Birthday

[astcell]

How about DT's birthday? Or better yet, the day he conceived of Defcon? Surely that moment ranks up there with the flux capacitor.

[TheCotMan]

How about DT's birthday? Or better yet, the day he conceived of Defcon? Surely that moment ranks up there with the flux capacitor.

Yeah, those would be good. Date of first announcement (including time) and first online discussion about it (with location.)

Adding this one to the list too:
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/...mputer_bug.htm
First computer bug. :-)
(How many security issues are the result of "bugs"? :-)

[Added: date]
9th of September, 1945

[Ridirich]

Wow....That gives a new meaning to 'bug' doesn't it?

[astcell]

I'm old, I knew that was where "bug" came from. More like an old meaning, not a new meaning. I'm glad it wasn't a condom.

I think we need to celebrate the birthday of the Fire Marshal for Las Vegas too. :>

[Deviant Ollam]

I'm old, I knew that was where "bug" came from.

an insect was similarly responsible for the identity mix-up between Mr. Buttle and Mr. Tuttle.

[Gadsden]

First jpg of pr0n. (Date Unknown)

[INIT_6]

Nikola Tesla, July 10, 1856
Greatest hacker, and inventor. Invented the AC systems, crt vac. tubes, ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_tesla
http://www.parascope.com/en/0996/tesla9.htm <---story about how his coils could destory all computers in the world

Can't forget about the abacus. invented between 2400 BC and 300 BC. This was the first 2-base system. Started a lot of orginal thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus

[astcell]

Can't forget about the abacus. invented between 2400 BC and 300 BC....

Not exactly a specific date we can celebate. What was that opening scene of "Caveman"... 1,000,000 B.C. ... 3:15pm.

[TheCotMan]

Not exactly a specific date we can celebate.

Exactly the point to make.
Same with the suggestion of celebrating first jpg porn-- we could assume one second after the standard, but then we'd have to consider which standard/revision. I tried a search (google) for first jpg porn posted to usenet, but found no papers, or citations.

I've been populating another test calendar with the above dates. The idea for a "hacker history" calendar was suggested by noid in another thread. Let's see what kinds of annual hacker events and birthday celebrations we can include with it. :-)

So, now we have one primary calendar (Public) and two test calendars (History and Conventions.)

What was that opening scene of "Caveman"... 1,000,000 B.C. ... 3:15pm.

That was a good movie for its time. Kind of like Airplane and Top Secret.

[Twigman]

I couldnt find exact dates,
but:
birthday of Tim Bernes Lee (Man who is generally regarded to have invented the WWW)
Invention of fibre optic cables for communication (judging by wikipedia, this is a long process, but maybe the 2 guys who made the first eridium doped one?)
First semiconductor manufacture?
Like quite a lot of things this cant really be pinned down to one day, but you could always set a date.

Having said that quite a lot of these suggestions (including mine) are more computing in general rather than hacker specific. Although you can always argue it either way.