// File Author: Nathan Bales // Created on: 10/28/2002 // Name: UW CSE Timeline // Data Source: Mural in Sieg Hall east stairwell, between 3ird and 4th floors // Source Author: UW CSE Dept. // Notes: I typed this in by hand, without a spell checker so I wouldn't be surprised if it’s full of typos. // It contains cool facts about the UW and CSE, and a few things that must be inside jokes. // Date Format: YYYY 1851 First non-native settlers arrive in Seattle 1861 UW Founded 1889 Seattle Fire 1900 Men of Sieg hall calendar 1907 Pike place market opens 1945 First computer bug found by Grace Hopper 1946 ENIAC 1957 First FORTRAN program 1962 Space Needle Constructed 1967 Grad CSE program founded 1969 ARPANET Lives 1975 The Beard is born 1975 Kingdome() 1978 Burk Gilman trail opens 1983 Bob Bandes RIP 1983 Frankye arrives 1985 Randy Day contributes Corn Flakes to Pit Party 1986 Randy Day contributes Corn Flakes to Pit Party 1987 Randy Day contributes Corn Flakes to Pit Party 1987 STAR First available 1987 steam powered turning machine activated (Sieg Hall East stairs between floors 2 and 3) 1989 Undergraduate program founded 1989 WWW Invented 1990 Sieg hall deemed unsafe in case of earthquake 1990 Second annual rolly chair races 1991 Hughes Hoppe debuts network based flight simulator 1991 Hughes realizes anonymous player feature useless: they are always faculty 1991 First march of the wizards 1991 Coke closet born 1991 Coke closest shut down for unfair competition with the Hub. 1992 Al Gore invents the internet 1992 Faculty beats grads at softball 1993 First dial-up ISP's available to public 1993 Edwina becomes char of CSE 1993 Sever Tire Damage first band to broadcast live over internet 1993 Rolling Stones second band to broadcast live over the internet 1994 New building began 1996 Professional masters program founded 1996 Talking Toaster invented "I'm sorry, what? Faster. Slower. I'm sorry, what?" 1998 Keith Nelson Jumps off Boat. 1999 Second annual spring cruise goes nowhere near Bill Gate's house. 1999 Raid on Chateau Fridge 1999 Ernst and Kaplan found "Non pornographic" by attorney General's office 2000 ~Kingdome() 2000 Frankey leaves 2000 Timeline Painted 2001 Sieg Survives 6.8 earthquake 2001 Professor Stefan Savage passes Generals 2001 Ground breaking event occurs 2001 Beard named new local maximum leader