Roundcube began as a personal project in Switzerland in July 2005: an IMAP webmail application in PHP that used real Ajax, not a CGI form. The first stable release came on March 4, 2008. Version 1.0 followed on April 7, 2014. On May 10, 2026, version 1.7 arrived. On the 6 … Read more
Anyone still saying “.NET Core 10” is not wrong about its history — the Core name ended at 3.1. Since version 5, the platform has simply been called .NET. Version 10 came out on November 11, 2025, is LTS until November 14, 2028, and in September 2026 the stable SDK is 10.0.400 … Read more
Go began on a Google whiteboard on September 21, 2007, because C++ took too long to compile. In November 2025, the language marked 16 years of open source development. In September 2026, the stable release is 1.27.1. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, the go you install on Linux — all of it descends … Read more
On February 4, 2004, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook.com from a room in Harvard’s Kirkland House. Eduardo Luiz Saverin, a Brazilian from São Paulo, contributed the first few thousand dollars and became CFO. Twenty-two years later, Meta pays US$ 17 billion to 47 US states … Read more
On April 1, 1976, three men signed the founding documents of a company in a Los Altos garage: Steven Paul Jobs, Stephen Gary Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Frightened by the risk, Wayne sold his 10% for US$ 800 just twelve days later — a stake that would be worth tens of billions. Thirty-five years … Read more
Stephen Gary Wozniak was born in San Jose on August 11, 1950. He designed the Apple I alone, for free, to impress his friends at the Homebrew Computer Club. Jobs saw the business opportunity. Almost fifty years later, at Apple’s 50-year celebration, Woz still receives the spotlight — and, he says, a … Read more
On April 4, 1975, in a room at the Sundowner Hotel on Route 66 in Albuquerque, William Henry Gates III and Paul Allen formalized “Micro-Soft”: 60% for Gates, 40% for Allen, and a BASIC for the Altair 8800 computer as their only product. Fifty years later, Microsoft is worth trillions and runs more Linux than … Read more
On February 24, 2009, his birthday as he turned 33, Jan Borysovych Koum registered WhatsApp Inc. in California. The app did not yet exist. The name was a play on “what’s up.” Five years later, he signed the sale to Facebook — around US$ 19.3 billion — in the white building in Mountain … Read more
In 2002, Mischa Peters of High5! released a PHP application so he would not have to edit MySQL by hand: virtual domains, mailboxes, and aliases. He called it PostfixAdmin. GPL. Postfix delivered the mail; it lacked a service counter. Twenty-four years later, PostfixAdmin 4.0.5 (July 5, 2026) is still that counter — now with TOTP, app passwords, DKIM, … Read more
On April 7, 2001, Alexei Vladishev released Zabbix under the GPL. It was an internal tool; it became a project. Stable version 1.0 came only on March 23, 2004. In April 2005, SIA Zabbix was founded in Riga, Latvia. Twenty-one years as a company (anniversary on April 12, 2025), twenty-five … Read more
