This particular day was proposed by Valentin Balt and Michael Cherviakov (aka htonus), employees of Parallel Technologies (a software company).

[1] On July 24, 2009, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media (Russia) issued a draft of an executive order on a new professional holiday, the Day of the Programmer.

[2][3] On September 11, 2009, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev signed the decree.

[4][5] In China, the programmer's day is October 24,[6] which has been established for many years.

[7] The date was chosen because it can also be written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki binary prefix.