Programmer Historical Events
Programmer Historical Events
GET /history/programmer - Programmer Historical Events
Want to look up programming-history events for a specific calendar day? Provide a month and a day and the endpoint returns the matching events.
Overview
This is an on-this-day-in-history endpoint: it is indexed by the month-day (MM-DD) you provide and returns the events that happened on that calendar day across all past years. The year is not a query parameter.
Data coverage
Covers major computing, internet, and open-source events from the 1940s to the present, and keeps adding recent milestones, including AI and large-model breakthroughs since 2020, major releases of well-known open-source projects and programming languages, important operating system releases, and notable vulnerability disclosures and internet outages. Each event has a category, tags, and an importance score.