March 7: Telephone was patented (1876)

Alexander Graham Bell was awarded a patent (#174,465) for the telephone in the United States in 1876. Before this invention, there had been many ideas, conceptual models and patent caveats about speaking telegraph, however, they were not practical and Bell's invention was granted a patent. Prior to this patent, Bell awarded a patent for transmitter and receivers for electric telegraphs. The first successful transmission of clear voice using a liquid transmitter was done on March 10, 1876.  

March 5: First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club (1975)

The Homebrew Computer Club, one of the earliest computer hobbyist usergroup in Silicon Valley, had its first meeting at the garage of Gordon French in Menlo Park, California, on March 5, 1975. French was one of the founders of the club along with Fred Moore. The founders of Apple Inc., Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, were members of the club and Wozniak made the debut of his early prototype of an Apple computer and Jobs persuaded Wozniak to sell this computer to the public, which led to the foundation of Apple Computer, as described in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography. Adam Osborne and Lee Felsenstein of Osborne Computer Corporation were members of the club. Jerry Lawson, the designer of the Fairchild Channel F video game console, was also a member of the club. The club was very instrumental to grow the silicon valley culture.

March 2: Compact Disk was released in the US market (1983)

Compact Disk (CD) players and disks with 16 titles from CBS Records were released in the US market on March 2, 1983 by Sony and Philips. This was the milestone moment of digital audio revolution. It revolutionized the way of storing music and data and opened the era of optical storage devices. It was later expanded to store data such as CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Video CD, Super Video CD, PhotoCD, and PictureCD. Before the release in the US market, it was only available in Japan since October 1982. The CD technology was evolved from LaserDisc that was release by Sony in September 1976.

March 1: Yahoo! was incorporated (1995)

Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. The company started its web directory service with a website named "Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web" in April 1994. Over time, Yahoo! acquired many internet companies and developed many services, however, some of the services were not so successful or discontinued, to name a few, Geocities, AltaVista, del.icio.us, MyBlogLog. Yahoo! is currently best known for its services like web portal, search, mail, news, photo and video sharing, groups, answers and maps. The largest portion of the company's revenue is from search advertising. Yahoo! is one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web and has been shaping the Internet industry.