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Lee Fesenstein was born on April 27, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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First attended UC Berkeley and joined the Co-operative Work Study Program in Engineering
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Lee Felsenstein was one of the 768 arrested the Sproul Hall Sit in at Berkeley
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Lee Felsenstein participated in the Free Speech Movement as a teenager
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Lee Felsenstein drops out of Berkeley
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Lee Felsenstein joined the underground Berkeley Barb as the newspaper's "military editor." He also jumped around between different electronic jobs and works in the Free Speech Movement
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After re-enrolling at Berkeley in 1971, Felsenstein graduated receiving a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Felsenstein developed the Community Memory Project alongside Efram Lipkin, Mark Szpakowski, and others. The project was the first public computerized bulletin board system. It let users enter and retrieve messages.
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Lee Felsenstein was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club. Many high-profile hackers came together in an open exchange of ideas during weekly meetings and eventually helped launch the personal computer revolution.
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In 1980, Adam Osborne founded the Osborne Computer Corporation with Felsenstein. Felsenstein designed the company's first product which was a portable computer
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Felsenstein was named a "Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Lee Felsenstein founded the Free Speech Movement Archives as an online repository of historical information relating to the Free Speech Movement events.
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While working with the Jhai Foundation of San Francisco, Felsenstein designed an open-source telecommunications and computer system for installation in remote villages in the developing world.
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In 2007, Lee Felsenstein was given the Editor's Choice Award for Creative Excellence by EE Times Magazine
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Lee Felsenstein was made a fellow of the Computer History Museum
