Posts Tagged ‘cyrix’

Late 90’s – The one interesting thing about looking at tech history is you can see trends. One trend I’ve been seeing in the last few days around the late 90’s was the amount of websites getting hacked. Groups like Legions of Underground, cArPaRtS nInJa TaSk FOrc3? and L|Z gained names for themselves over busting into other websites.

Then, in 1999, chairman of the President’s Council on Year 2000 Conversion: John Koskinen publicly pleads mercy with hackers to create a moratorium during the Y2K time.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Atari releases the 1200XL
• Charles Dickens publishes “A Christmas Carol”
• Cyrix files lawsuits over others who were using their patented technologies

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Items Discussed this week:

Printing Press
Albert Einstein
George Lucas
Apple
Microsoft
IEEE
AMD
CentOS
Nintendo

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