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Programmer Today in History

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Curious what happened on this day in programming history? This endpoint answers that question.

GET
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/api/v1/history/programmer/today

Overview

This is an on-this-day-in-history endpoint: it is indexed by the current month-day (MM-DD) and returns the events that happened on this calendar day across all past years, not only events from the current year.

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.

Response

200 / OK

Success. Returns the programmer-history events for today.

JSON
{
  "message": "Success",
  "date": "04-04",
  "events": [
    {
      "year": 1975,
      "title": "Microsoft 公司成立",
      "description": "比尔·盖茨和保罗·艾伦在美国新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基创立微软公司",
      "category": "公司创立",
      "importance": 9,
      "relevance_score": 0.95,
      "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/微软"
    }
  ]
}

500 / Internal Server Error

Internal server error.

JSON
{
  "code": "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR",
  "message": "Failed to fetch programmer history events."
}
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