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1896 – A little Geeky knowledge for ya – The Tootsie roll is introduced. Austrian immigrant Leo Hishfield took the idea to a New York store and sold the idea. The name comes from her 5 year old daughter, whom everyone called “Tootsie”. It became the first “Penny candy” and was even a War time ration since it could withstand severe weather conditions.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Texas Instruments recalls the TI-99/4a for a short in the system
• JTS Corp sells Atari to HIACXI, who is owned by Hasbro
• Comcast OnDemand is launched

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1985 – When you hear “Apple Superbowl commercial”, you instantly think a woman running down a hall with a sledgehammer ready to destroy oppression. But there was another commercial. The Yang to the Macintosh Ying.

The Lemmings commercial was aired for Super Bowl XIX. It was a commercial for Macintosh Office. Blindfolded businessmen marched off the edge of a cliff to a dark rendition of “Hi Ho”. The last guy in line – realizing his blind mouse wasn’t in front of him anymore, peeked to see what happened – only to find he was one step away from oblivion; Another line of Blind mice coming up behind him.

The big difference in this commercial is that it was a horrific failure. The consumer felt insulted more than enlightened. If that commercial would have aired the year before for Macintosh, Apple would have been done. What a difference a year makes, eh?

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Robert and Carleen Thomas (Amature Action BBS) were raided
• Microsoft market value surpasses IBM for the first time to $26.78 Billion
• Microsoft sells all shares of Comcast

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10 Movies on Blu-Ray
Gaming 20 Years ago
First Mobile Adult store
Batmobile Limo
ASCAP Goes after Guitar Hero
Privacy of Text Messages on Employer Phones
64 GB NAND
Android hits 20,000
Juku too much like Plurk
-Microsoft:We didn’t do it
Cyber Monday Beats Black Friday in Carbon Footprint

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Comcast TV Everywhere Service
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-Why Google is shortning
Nearsighted People increasing
Facebook 4th Biggest
Should the FCC Give Whitespace to Government?
Man Delivers Baby via Google

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Here are your 5 tech things you should know for this week:

• Comcast NBC
  • What will happen to Hulu?
• McAffee – Mapping the Mal Web
  • Hong Kong Drops
  • .CM, .COM, .CN, .INFO top bad boys
• B(lack)SOD
  • Could be Malware
• SLR iPhone
  • 18-55mm lens on iPhone
• Waterloo Iowa at 105Mbps
  • Is it a test market, or is there something to come?

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May 29th 2008 – Comcast had a different type of attack. This one opened the eyes to how our records in ICANN were being handled. The infamous “Comcast Hack” was where hackers did not attack the servers themselves, but they found a way into Network Solutions and changed the DNS of the webpage. Once the DNS is changed, the homepage would then redirect to servers of their choosing.

Other historical notes – The Woodstock of the web. We also heard about the first computer patent and the Dell computer fraud. This is all on the Podcast

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It’s gotten really obvious that soon, unlimited Internet will be the thing of the past. As we get into faster speeds, it will be easier to download more and let friends connect up to download more. In the next 2 years the average persons’ internet usage will go up significantly.

This cap hurts those who work hard to keep you entertained on the Internet. While you won’t just get disconnected (well, unless your a Comcast customer), you will find the Internet will mimic your cell phone plan – overage fees to total in the hundreds or even thousands depending on what you do.

It might even affect little mom and pop shops like Geekazine. Think about it. If you ration your internet, you might find sites that have all the content you need and not specialty stuff. Even a site like Bitstrips can see some loss in users simply because they cannot be online.

Maybe someday this will re-regulate where internet usage is not important. Until then, we have to deal with this growing pain or get shut off.

Therefore, here is a little comic I wrote:

Except when it’s not. From the New York Times:

“A list of user names and passwords for customers of Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, sat unprotected on the Web for the last two months.

“The list was 8,000 lines long, but Comcast said late Monday that just 700 of those lines contained information for active customer accounts.”

Read the full story with updates here. Comcast claims the document does not look like it came from them and might possibly have leaked from a phishing site.

Jury Duty over – Last Snowfalls – Dell Upgrade – Laptop WiFi – Mardi Gras – Web pages – Frank installing Debian Linux – Finally fed up with AT&T

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Wow. It was about a year ago I asked for people to send in thoughts as to what to expect in 2008. I also made some Technology predictions. But the real question was – How far off was I?

This is actually part 1 of a 2-part story. This first part reviews the predictions I made last year and how far off I was. Part 2 will have this years predictions, including predictions from CEO’s CTO’s TechPodcasters and even a Psychic.

So without any further ado, let’s pick apart my idiocy from last year:

OLPC will have some growing pains. The first part of OLPC will be the easiest. Maintaining the machines will be the trick. Microsoft coming onboard will muddy the water, but they might be able to do things like offer a better support network to third world countries.

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