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Robert cailliau (on the right),  the belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who was born on this day ie. on Jan 26, 1947 found the World Wide Web together with Sir Tim Berners Lee (On the left)..

His contributions made him to be in the internet hall of fame by the internet society

He is also commander in the order of king leopold (awarded by King Albert II of Belgium)

He and Tim Berners-Lee Was Given the ACM Software System Award (with Tim Berners-Lee)


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Lotus 1-2-3 , Another Popular Spreadsheet Program was also developed on this day in 1983 by Mitchell Kapor

This Company Later Became a part of IBM Software Solutions

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On this Day The Major Technological giant, Compaq which is now Bought by HP Acquired Digital Equipment Corporation For $9.6 Billion.

But it was originally found under the leadership of rod canion in the year 1982

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