FTWary 2012


FTWary is the offical month of Computer History! Don't just use computers, use them to learn about the amazing journy that they have taken!


This month's zodiac symbol is the Code Monkey. You are the wizard of the computer age, you hide yourself away from the the world for hours, no, days as you conjor up spells in C drinking potions of caffine and sugar. Most people don't understant you, they may not like you or even ph4ar you. But they N33D you. You do not get well with others, and those you do, you prefere interacting through your the screen. Remember, you are not anti social, you're anti stupid.

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This is the official Invention Week! Go invent somthing!

FTWary 1 Wednesday
Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Mark Healey born
Space Shuttle Columbia crew die
National Freedom Day
The start of Black History Month
The start of LGBT History Month
YTGDM
Tenth Day of Chinese New Year
Gilligans Island Day


FTWary 2 Thursday
First polygraph tested.
Thomas M. Disch born
Boris Karloff died
Groundhog Day
Inventor's Day
World Wetlands Day
YTGDM
Eleventh Day of Chinese New Year


FTWary 3 Friday
All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
John Fiedler born
Emile Borel died
Twelth Day of Chinese New Year
YTGDM
Get your own site day


FTWary 4 Saturday
Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically
Facebook Founded
Ken Thompson born
Satyendra Nath Bose died
FaceBook Day-get caught up with fb or create an account-
YTGDM
Thirteenth Day of Chinese New Year


FTWary 5 Sunday
Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
Nolan Bushnell born
Oskar Klein died
National Weatherperson's Day
YTGDM
Fourteenth Day of Chinese New Year


FTWary 6 Monday
First patent for an integrated circuit filed
Spencer Silver born
Jack Kirby died
Post It Day-dont talk, post it-
Contact an old friend day!
YTGDM
Fifteenth Day of Chinese New Year


FTWary 7 Tuesday
First untethered space walk
Wayne Allwine born
Galileo Ferraris died
Talk a walk day
YTGDM

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This is the official Modern Computer Week! Back up your data, defrag those nonssd drives, update your spyware, pop up blockers, antivirus, drivers, and other software. Make sure you have a winsock repair ap. Hunt down viruses, trojans, and worms. Scrub your drives clean of useless and data, organize it all, change those passwords, and clean out all that dust!

FTWary 8 Wednesday
The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
Bill Finger born
Dave Meros born
Julius Schwartz died
Evil you day!-grow or attach a beard to your face, act the opposite of your normal self-
YTGDM


FTWary 9 Thursday
Apollo 14 returns to Earth
Jo Duffy born
Crispin Freeman born
Dennis Gabor died
Walter Frederick Morrison died
.hack day!-Watch all the series, read the magna, play the games- YTGDM


FTWary 10 Friday
The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
Walter Houser Brattain born
Wilhelm Rontgen died
Electronics day!-build a blinky light or your own computer from logic gates- YTGDM


FTWary 11 Saturday
BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
Henry Fox Talbot born
Charles Algernon Parsons died
National Inventors' Day
YTGDM


FTWary 12 Sunday
NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft becomes the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
Charles Robert Darwin born
Tara Strong born
Scott Menville born
Charles M. Schulz died
National Freedom to Marry Day
Darwin Day-get an evolution fish for your car and shout I believe in evolution!- YTGDM


FTWary 13 Monday
A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
William Shockley born
Alfred Carlton Gilbert born
Ruder Boskovic died
World Radio Day
Time travlers day!-leave a modern day object in the past-
YTGDM


FTWary 14 Tuesday
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
Christopher Latham Sholes born
Karl Guthe Jansky died
YTGDM
Keyboard day!-clean your keyboard or upgrade!-
Valentine's Day
Interplanetary Be Who You Are Day

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This is the official MST3K Week! Start with the green slime and see how far you get!

FTWary 15 Wednesday
ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Galileo Galilei Born
Matt Groening born
Niklaus Wirth born
Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley born
Brendon Small born
Richard Feynman died
Henry Way Kendall died
Susan B. Anthony Day
Chris Farly day-Alternate a mst3k with a farly movie-
YTGDM


FTWary 16 Thursday
The first computer bulletin board system is created
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold born
Roberta Williams born
Chien-Shiung Wu died
Michael Larson died
YTGDM
Start your own Bulletin Board day!


FTWary 17 Friday
Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched
Thomas J. Watson born
Andre Norton born
David McComb born
Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena born
Jozef Murgas born
Giordano Bruno died
Christopher Latham Sholes died
Death of the classic Space Station Day
YTGDM


FTWary 18 Saturday
The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
Alessandro Volta Born
Tony Anselmo born
Johnny Hart born
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa died
Thabit ibn Qurra died
YTGDM
High Voltage Day-drink volt cola and do high volatage experiments-


FTWary 19 Sunday
The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.
Nicolaus Copernicus born
William Messner-Loebs born
Svante Arrhenius born
Tedd Pierce died
Life Day!-go watch the star wars holiday special on youtube. e-mail george lucus to get him to include it in the starwars collection and digitially remaster his movies to give chewbacca a medal, then get drink till the horrible memories dissappear-
YTGDM


FTWary 20 Monday
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth
Charlie Adler born
Kath Soucie born
Joel Hodgson born
Julia Volkova born
Clarence Nash died
Maria Goeppert-Mayer died
Rift bad Movie day-rent b-movies, and rift them! anyone that tells you to shut up, duct tape their mouth!- YTGDM


FTWary 21 Tuesday
The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes died
Harold Furth died
Hot and Cold Day-experiment in the extremes of tempertures-
YTGDM

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This is the official TV Week! Watch it!

FTWary 22 Wednesday
In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
Pierre Janssen born
Steve Irwin born
Ed Boon
Chuck Jones died
Crocadile Hunter Day!-Go around as Steve Irwin-
YTGDM
World Thinking Day


FTWary 23 Thursday
German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
Michael Dell born
Doug Moench born
Carl Friedrich Gauss died
YTGDM
Its Heisenberg day! Try to exatcly determine a particale's position and velocity at the same time-


FTWary 24 Friday
Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery
Jacques de Vaucanson born
Wilhelm Grimm born
Chad Hugo born
Robert Fulton died
Antonio Prohias died
Claude Shannon died
YTGTDM
Automation day!-Automate something in your house-


FTWary 25 Saturday
Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
Zeppo Marx born
Karl H. Pribram born
Carrot Top sprouted
Donald Hings died
YTGDM
Plum Blossom Festival
Carrot Day!


FTWary 26 Sunday
Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
Tex Avery born
Karen Berger born
Fatal1ty born
Otto Wallach died
Tex Avery Day!-watch old school cartoons-
YTGDM


FTWary 27 Monday
Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
Alan Guth born
Danny Antonucci born
Ali Tabatabaee born
Bill Everett died
Bill Holman died
Fred Rogers died
Date Night!-Get a carbon sample or go on a date-
YTGDM


FTWary 28 Tuesday
James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA
The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
Leon Cooper born
Jost Burgi born
Linus Pauling born
C. V. Raman born
Ishiro Honda died
Christine Glanville died
Roger Needham died
The Big Bang Theory Day!-watch the episodes!-
National Science Day
YTGDM
Rare Disease Day

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This is the official semi Amphibian Week! Kiss one!

FTWary 29 Wednesday
Anura Appreciation Day! YTGDM
Rare Disease Day