I'm a little late with this, but 30 years ago on June 8, 1978, Intel introduced its first 16-bit processor called the 8086. For those of you too young to remember, or too non-technical to care (I'm old and a geek, so I do know about this), the 8086's architecture would be the heart (and brains) of the laptops and desktops you work on and the servers that power the internet.
In 1981, a little company called IBM introduced the PC Model 5150 using a variant of the 8086 called the 8088. From there, other companies like Compaq sprang up using the 8086 and other improved processors like the 80386, 80486, Pentium, and so on. The base architecture of the processor, which became known as the "x86", now drives most of the "personal computers" we work on daily. This even includes the Macintosh computers which switched from IBM's PowerPC chips (yeah, that same small company. A story for another day...) to Intel's x86 chips.
So anyway, wish the chip in your computer a slightly belated happy birthday!
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