It all started in 1951, when a team of brilliant engineers gathered in a secret underground bunker to create the world's first binary birthday card. The card, a simple 1s and 0s printed on a piece of paper, was a game-changer.
Fast forward to 1969, when the first computer virus was born. It was a binary birthday card gone rogue, spreading its 1s and 0s across the globe, leaving a trail of destroyed punch cards and frustrated programmers in its wake.
But the true hero of binary birthdays is the 8-bit man himself, who in 1981, single-handedly popularized the idea of binary birthdays with his groundbreaking work on "The 8-Bit Birthday Bash" – a binary-themed party that still gets invited to this day.
Want to learn more about the early days of binary birthdays? Check out our subpage on Ancient Bits!