Why is September 13 celebrated Programmer's Day?

To begin with, it is the 256th day of the year.

Why is this day celebrated today?

• An employee of the Parallel Technologies company, Valentin Balt, He proposed to celebrate this day to the Russian government in 2002.
• September 13 or 12 was chosen in a leap year because it is the number that represents the different combinations that can be made with 8 bits.
• Why is this day celebrated today? The story goes that a worker from the Parallel Technologies company, Valentin Balt, proposed to celebrate this day to the Russian government in 2002. It was chosen on September 13 or 12 in leap year because it is the number that represents the different combinations that can be made with 8 bits.