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Happy New Year – Happy New Decade.

1983 – It was an order by the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense, Richard DeLauer. The ARPANET was to have finished a conversion from the Network Control Protocol it was on, to Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. Otherwise known as TCP/IP.

The transistion went smooth, and everyone got a button for their hard work stating “I survived the TCP/IP transition”.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Happy 16th Anniversary, Bill and Melinda Gates
• The Kermit project begins
• DOD and Walmart implement RFID tags

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1969 – The First ARPANET link is established

1995 – Toy Story is released to audiences. It is the first feature film created by computer animation

2008 – Abraham Biggs commits suicide in front of a streaming audience on Justin.tv

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1995 – Sega launches the Saturn video game console in the US. The 32-bit Cartridge loading system contained the 2 x Hitachi SH-2 32-bit RISC (28.6 MHz). It was launched in Japan and Europe earlier in the year, but didn’t hit the US until this date.

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You could get the system with Virtua Fighter for $399. Below is the teaser commercial for the game system.

Other items in Day in Tech History:

• Ultima I released
• The first Interface Message Processor is connected to the ARPANET
• eBay stops an auction of a human kidney

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The Post Office is a dying beast. Once the beacon for our communications system, it fights tooth and nail to keep going. Proposed cutbacks and possible less days of delivery are haunting this Public Service. So maybe the Post Office should start doing the one thing that is making them obsolete. Electronic Mail.

The idea of delivering messages and items from one person to another has been around since the ancient Pharaohs. From messengers that travel by horse, on foot or via ship – the transferring of written information became a vital part to being informed and ultimately, powerful. If you were a King, you had messengers ride to give news of battles, events or just personal notes.

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  OK. I have to admit. I have 1 hotmail, 1 Yahoo and 2 Gmail accounts. I also have an email account for each website I own and 1 email for each website I administer. That’s a lot of email….Recently I saw a new site pop up in the area and they were offering “Free email”. It got me to thinking about all the free email plans that we saw so many years ago. I also started to wonder – is a free email a good thing, or just a way to get more spam?

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