Week in Tech History-9-08-08-Integrated Circuit


The Integrated Circuit is so important in our computer lives. If it wasn’t for this innovation, we would be working with levers and punch cards. Forget about the internet as we know it.I would guess that we would eventually find something similar.

Other important notes: Sega Dreamcast, Windows XP SP1 and Microsoft ME launched this week. We also saw the birth of ‘Remote Computing’. The Gopher Protocol and Genetic fingerprinting.

Of course we also remember 9/11/01.

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