IBM today wokeup on "Happy Birthday" song all over the world as it marked its 100th anniversary of its founding on June 16, 1911.
To celebrate the milestone, the company is releasing a book, "Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company," and debuting a new film, "Wild Ducks,".
Some of IBM's achievements:-
- Floppy Disk Drive - in 1971
The first floppy was an 8-inch flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic iron oxide; computer data was written to and read from the disk's surface.
The nickname "floppy" came from the disk's flexibility. The floppy disk was considered a revolutionary device in the "History of Computers" for its portability which provided a new and easy physical means of transporting data from computer to computer.
Others were 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch, Post Floppy Disk. 
- Developing the first hard disk drive that created the data storage industry.
- Fortran: The First Successful High Level Programming LanguageFortran or formula translation was the first high level programming language (software) invented by John Backus for IBM in 1954, and released commercially in 1957. Fortran is still used today for programming scientific and mathematical applications
- The invention of the IBM Personal Computer that launched the PC revolution.
On August 12, 1981, IBM released their new computer, re-named the IBM PC. The "PC" stood for "personal computer" making IBM responsible for popularizing the term "PC". The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor.
The PC came equipped with 16 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 256k. The PC came with one or two 160k floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor.
Time Magazine named the computer "man of the year".
On the ceremony, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano identified the key lesson IBM has learned over 100 years: In order to succeed for the long term, you must manage for the long term.
"For IBMers, long-term thinking means continually moving to the future," he said. "IBM has survived and thrived for 100 years by remaining true to our core values, while being ready to change everything else. This has allowed us to transform technology, business and society through our first century, and we believe it will enable us to achieve even more in our second."
Happy Birthday IBM, we have enjoyed your innovations that have been tested with time.
