Digital Innovation Days
Impactful digital innovation that happened on this day.
Episodes
25 episodes since 2021
21 May 1952 - IBM announces its first electronic computer
With the introduction of IBM 701, the company’s first electronic computer, the tech giant entered the computer business. The development of this machine for commercial purposes was viewed as a radical move by many considering IBM was the larges...
May 21, 2024
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Episode 33
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2:49
11 May 1997 - Deep Blue defeats world's best chess player
When IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the then best chess player in the world on the 11th of May, 1997, the surprise was widespread. Developed by IEEE senior members Murray Campbell and Feng-hsiung Hsu, Deep Blue was a chess-playing supercomputer by IB...
May 11, 2024
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Episode 32
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2:52
9 May 2023 - IBM Watsonx unveiled
12 years after winning the game show Jeopardy with its software Watson, IBM unveils Watsonx, a new product suite aimed at helping companies develop and deploy artificial intelligence more efficiently. Based on the Red Hat Openshift platform, th...
May 09, 2024
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Episode 31
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3:37
7 May 1954 - IBM 704 introduced
The introduction of IBM 704 on the 7th of May, 1954, marked a significant milestone in the history of computers as it was the first mass-produced computer in the world that featured indexing and floating-point arithmetic hardware. This was esse...
May 07, 2024
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Episode 30
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3:02
28 April 2003 - iTunes music store Launch
With the launch of the iTunes Music Store by Apple on the 28th of April, 2003, the music world was forever altered. A software-based online digital media store operated by Apple, this was Steve Job’s attempt at creating a digital marketplace fo...
April 28, 2024
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Episode 29
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2:45
21 April 2011 - Zoom founded
When Zoom was launched on the 21st of April, 2011, it entered a very competitive video conferencing market. Today, it stands as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the remote work boom due to the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. With astonishin...
April 21, 2024
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Episode 28
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2:51
8 April 1991 - Java development begins
The development of Java, a high-level, object-oriented programming language, began on the 8th of April, 1991. An American technology company named Sun Microsystems started this project, with a team retreating to an unrevealed location to work o...
April 08, 2024
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Episode 27
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2:49
1 April 2004 - Gmail launch
When Gmail was launched on the 1st of April, 2004, many considered it to be a huge joke by Google. Today, this free email service boasts a user-base of 1.8 billion users worldwide...
April 01, 2024
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Episode 26
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2:48
31 March 1951 - First commercial computer unveiled
As the U.S. Census Bureau signed the contract for the first commercially produced digital computer in the U.S., it marked the beginning of a new era in technology. Short for “Universal Automatic Computer”, UNIVAC was dedicated a few months late...
March 31, 2024
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Episode 25
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2:52
21 March 2006 - Tweeter founded
With the first-ever tweet made by Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, on the 21st of March, 2006, the immensely popular social media platform was launched. Interestingly, this tweet was sold for
March 21, 2024
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Episode 24
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2:45
12 March 2008 - Hulu launch
When Hulu launched for the general public on the 12th of March, 2008, it offered access to all within the United States. Previously, a beta version of this video streaming platform had also been privately launched. Although Hulu offered only a ...
March 12, 2024
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Episode 23
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2:55
2 March 1995 - Yahoo! official launch
Founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, graduate students at Stanford University, Yahoo! was incorporated on the 2nd of March, 1995. Initially, the site was called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” but as it grew in popularity, it w...
March 02, 2024
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Episode 22
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2:59
22 February 1999 - First internet-only bank
On the 22nd of February, 1999, the First Internet Bank of Indiana (First IB) opened its virtual doors to the public. This was the first state-chartered FDIC-insured institution to operate only through the internet. Marketed as the first “extend...
February 21, 2024
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Episode 21
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2:51
16 February 1984 - IBM portable PC introduced
The introduction of the IBM Portable Personal Computer 5155 - a product whose roaring success surprised many, including IBM itself - on the 16th of February, 1984 popularised personal computers for everyday use. Weighing about 30 pounds, this c...
February 16, 2024
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Episode 20
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2:43
8 February 2005 - Google Maps launch
The revolutionary launch of Google Maps on the 8th of February, 2005, transformed the way we use maps for directions and navigate the world with our smartphones. Initially, it was launched for desktop as a solution for people to get from one po...
February 08, 2024
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Episode 19
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2:31
4 February 2004 - Facebook launch
Facebook was founded on the 4th of February, 2004, as “The facebook” by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz, following the high popularity of Facemash. In 2003, these four Harvard students created Facemash, an o...
February 04, 2024
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Episode 18
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3:11
22 January 1984 - Macintosh introduced
The introduction of Macintosh by Apple on the 22nd of January, 1984, revolutionised the computing industry by making computers easy to use for any and everyone, not just experts. The Macintosh, or Mac as it is now known, is a series of several ...
January 22, 2024
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Episode 17
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2:42
15 January 2001 - Wikipedia goes online
On the 15th of January, 2001, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia, a free and collaborative online encyclopedia. Written and edited by the internet community, it is the largest of its type of websites and is available in over
January 15, 2024
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Episode 16
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2:53
9 January 2007 - Apple introduces iPhone
There are very few technological events in recent history that can rival the introduction of the iPhone by Apple on the 9th of January, 2007. Dubbing it the “reinvention of the phone”, the company claimed that it was a revolutionary product tha...
January 09, 2024
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Episode 15
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2:37
3 January 2009 - Bitcoin launched
When Bitcoin was created by its mysterious pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto on the 3rd of January, 2009, the world was introduced to a completely new form of currency - cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is a form of binary data which acts a...
January 03, 2024
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Episode 14
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2:49
1 January 1985 - Domain Name System created
The creation of the Domain Name System (DNS) on the 1st of January, 1985 transformed the way the internet was browsed. Essentially the phonebook of the internet, the DNS allowed users to access information using domain names instead of IP addre...
January 01, 2024
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Episode 13
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2:24
24 December 1990 - First ever web server release
When the world’s first ever web server (http://info.cern.ch/) went live at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) on the 24th of December, 1990, it marked the creation of one of the four essenti...
December 24, 2023
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Episode 12
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2:31
18 December 1987 - First release of Perl
Larry Wall released the general-purpose programming language Perl on the 18th of December, 1987. It was meant to offer text manipulation, web development, network programming, system administration, and Graphics User Interface (GUI) development...
December 18, 2023
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Episode 11
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2:28
11 December 2008 - Google releases Chrome
Google marked the release of its web browser on the 11th of December, 2008, when it launched the first stable public version of Chrome. Although the tech giant had previously released 3 versions for testing, they were beta versions. With the re...
December 11, 2023
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Episode 10
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2:27
Welcome to the digital innovation days
Now more than ever, digital technology has become a staple in our professional and private life.The revolution can’t be ignored as it is changing the way people travel, work, interact & organize their daily activities. And it does it...
January 01, 2023
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Episode 0
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0:55