Posts Tagged ‘Day in Tech History’

2002 – While in Bankruptcy since the following September, Roxio – along with the Private Media Group – came in and took over the $2.43 million dollar company. They took all logos and names and rebranded it “Napster 2.0″. This time, Napster was a pay site – merging technologies with Roxio Pressplay.The sale completed in 2003

Ultimately, the company was purchased by Best Buy in 2008.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• DVD Jon releases the crack to WMV9 codec
• ICANN and the US Commerce Memorandum of Understanding
• Playboy files suit against Rusty n Edie’s BBS

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2008 – After a long court battle with the Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) group, a judge rules that Novell is the owner of UNIX and UNIXWare copyrights. In 2003 – just after SCO changed their name from Caldera – had made a claim that the SCO IP was incorporated into Linux and that they should get a cut from each copy sold. Novell states that they own the code to UNIX and therefore this claim was not valid. The battle went on, and still goes on to this day, with SCO group dwindled down to a shell (no pun intended). Part of the rulings on this case have been reversed since.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• BadTrans worm is released
• AOL acquires Netscape Communications
• Nolan Bushnell patents the Pong controller

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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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1894 – The first Sunday Comics section is printed by the New York World

1985 – 91 years later, Bill Watterson syndicates a comic about a boy and his stuffed Tiger. Calvin and Hobbes will bring laughter to millions for the next ten years. It reached through 2,400 newspapers (at it’s height) and spun off 18 books. Bill Watterson ended the comic on December 31st, 1995 and has left it retired since.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• A court says Microsoft is free to market BASIC
• International Cryptography Framework (ICF).
• DivX sues Yahoo over Google-Yahoo deal
• Macy’s Department Store launches largest Internet shopping website to date.

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2008 – After battle upon battle between Microsoft, Google and shareholders (including Carl Icahn), Jerry Yang finally announced to all he was stepping down. The previous days, Yahoo had hit it’s lowest share price, $8. With that, the failed Google affiliation (due to antitrust issues), and a very despondent group of investors, Jerry felt it best to step back in his roll.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• USB 3.0 Specification is released
• Apple vs. Carl Sagan
• Veronica is released

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1977 – Most of the time, we skip over movie releases, unless it has had a definite impact on the Tech and geek community. That is the case with this movie. Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, and Teri Garr was released to 272 US theaters. It was produced on a budget of US$20 million, amd would gross US $5,379,460 in the opening weekend.

It also changed the way I ate mashed potatoes.

• 3Dfx Interactive unveils the Voodoo
• ICANN selects 7 top level domains (TLD)
• Intel launches the i7

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1971 – Intel releases the 4004 mircoprocessor. This is the first single-chip processor and what is concidered a “pre x86 processor” along with the 8008, 8080 and 8085 processors.

The 4004 could run 60,000 interactions per second (0.06 MIP). The clock rate on the chip was 108 KHz and was accompanied by the Intel RAM chip.

Price: $200

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Corel Linux OS 1.0
• SURFnet and Internet2 Abilene connect via Gigabit ethernet
• Neopets are founded

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2002 – Gary McKinnon has been in the news ever since his arrest. Back in 2002, he hacked into networks run by NASA, the Pentagon, along with other military bases around the US. He claims he was on a hunt to find evidence that the US has been covering up alien contact.

What makes this a tough case is that McKinnon lives in the UK. Since the arrest, he has been waging a war against being extradited to the United States. He has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome – a form of Autism.

BTW – this is the largest military hack known to have been perpetrated by one individual.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• The World Wide Web proposal is published by Tim Berners-Lee
• Intel introduces the 45nm Penryn chips
• On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem – is published by Alan Turing

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2005 – In an effort to curb piracy, record companies began putting copy protection on the CD’s themselves.  The electronic marking would cause CD’s to error out if they tried to copy. Unfortunately this idea was riddled with problems. Some players couldn’t read the disks, other people would find ways around the copy protection, such as different brand drives. However, it was found that the XCP copy protection standard became a backdoor for hackers as viruses could be introduced through the software.

The announcement came ten days after Sony had secretly put this system on the shelves.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Remembrance of Veterans on Vetrans Day / WWI Memorial Day
• IBM 2980 Financial terminal
• The first OLPC order is placed
• Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Icahn debauchery cost $73 million.

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1986 – Back in that day, Comdex was the big computer show. There were two versions: one that was held in Chicago in the spring and the other in Las Vegas mid-November. At this time, Atari was the big dog on the block. Jack Tramiel was putting all efforts in this years Comdex after seeing a small dip in the shares.

So they set up a 65 booth display with different 3rd party developers that would show off what the Atari could do. The big innovation that year – the SX212 1200 baud modem for $99.95. They also showed off the Atari 2600jr and the Atari 7800, and because of that impressive show, Atari boasted a $25 million profit that year.

Of course, the company went well for a few more years, merged with JTS, which was then bought by Hasbro in 1998. The company still is survived in a way to this day, but not in the glory that it was back then.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• IBM introduces Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) Heads
• The first Apple iPod is shipped
• Circuit City files for Chapter 11 protection

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2000 – It was a time that would be known as when the Bubble burst – dot com-ers losing their sites and livelihood. Pets.com was no different. They had a pretty good run, but couldn’t make the books run. They even had a mascot – a sock puppet of a dog holding a microphone – that made the marketing of the site. Nonetheless, the only good sales at Pets.com were the sock puppets. The puppet was sold upon bankruptcy to a company called Bar None – an auto loan firm.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• IBM and Motorola shun Microsoft on a new computer platform
• Atari makes IPO
• the Craigslist bandit

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