Archive for the ‘Day in Tech History’ Category

1994 – Novell purchases Quattro Pro and WordPerfect for $145 million. However, the company ended up selling both software programs to Corel in 1996.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Hfury
• Apple TV begins Shipping

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2005 – Yahoo acquires Ludicorp and the popular photo sharing site Flickr. No details were released on this purchase. On Yahoo’s blog they outline that Flickr will continue to run as-is, while Yahoo Photos will incorporate some of the ideals into it’s site. The biggest issue from the deal was that Ludicorp was based in Vancouver, therefore when the data transfered to Yahoo servers the week of June 25th, it became subject to US federal law.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Google Chome adds RSS support
• 3-COM exit strategy of high-end data networking
• Apple 20th Anniversary Macintosh (TAM)

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2009 – The face of browsers was changing. Mozilla had made a major push for the browser market and Google had entered into the market with the Chrome browser. In the meantime, Microsoft was getting pressure from the European Union for it’s bundling of the browser on the operating system. Still, Internet Explorer continues on and releases IE8

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• IBM PC jr is discontinued
• Apple releases the Mac IIfx
• Palm introduces the M500 and M505 handhelds

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2002 – The .aero domain, or domain on aviation, begins registering. The resolution of the .aero domain would happen on Sept 2nd.

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• CRT iMac is removed from Apple Store
• SATAN Security tool released

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1999 – America Online(AOL) completes the acquisition of Netscape Communications Corporation. The acquisition started in Nov. 24, 1998. The acquisition was a $10 million arrangement in stock and cash.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Apple files suit to Microsoft and HP
• Office 97 Small Business Edition is released
• Tim Paterson contacts Microsoft on intent to sell MS-DOS

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1995 – The worlds first Wiki was created as Ward Cunningham invites people to add and edit content. A Wiki is a database that can be a community collaboration. Six years later, Wikipedia is launched.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Wireless Telephone is invented
• Sci-Fi announces the name change to SyFy
• Mac OS X Server 1.0

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1985 – 25 years ago, Symbolics.com became the first domain registered on the World Wide Web.  In fact, if you go to their website, they have a countdown clock to the historic event. The company made Lisp machines (workstations), most notably, the 3600 series. Since then, the site was purchased by XF.com Investments (now, XF.com) – Aron Meystedt. No purchase price was disclosed for the domain.

Note – the first domain ever created was Nordu.net, but was never registered.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• IBM 1050 Data Communications System
• First Unix manual page for cc
• Cisco acquires Webex for $3.2 Billion

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Happy National Pi Day – The celebration of 3.14

1988 – It’s the song that found it’s rebirth and the term “Rick Rolled” became a urban saying. Of course, we are talking about Rick Astley and the song: Never Gonna Give You Up. It hit #1 on the charts. Of course, it’s internet fame has turned this into a whole new beast.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Microsoft releases XBox in Europe
• NEC announces they will be getting into the computer market
• Apple releases the Power Macintosh computer

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1986 -$21.00 a share was the first price for stock in Microsoft. 2.5 million shares were sold, raising the price to 27.75 and netting the company 61 million initially. Since then, the highest it has gone was 57.91 on Dec 24th, 1999. Yet with about 10 stock splits and several dividends in the 24 years, people definitely got their money’s worth. If you would have purchased 100 shares in 1986 and let those shares ride until today, you would have 102,400 shares of stock at appx. $29 a share.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Apple and Bandai demonstrate the Pippin Atmark Multimedia computer
• JTS sells Atari to HIACXI
• Jerry Jalava gets the first prothstetic thumb drive

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1986 – It’s full name is Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik (Centre of Office and Information technology). CeBit actually was started in the 70’s with the Hanover fair. However, the two separated in 1986 when it was decided that together, the two were not doing too well. Since then, CeBit has grown to be a very important conference for all IT.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• V-Chip technology becomes mandatory in televisions
• AOL buys Bebo
• Hulu launches in the US

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1997 – Although the MP3 player was technically been around since the 80’s, the first Digital Music Player was first introduced. Eiger Labs shows off the MPMan at CeBit. For $250, you get a 32 MB model to hold 8 of your favorite songs. The 1998 release was only shadowed by the Rio PMP300, which overshadowed Eiger Labs.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Apple Macintosh discontinues the Mac IIcx
• HP acquires TrueLogica
• iTunes 8.1 is released

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