Posts Tagged ‘first computer’

1990 – Thomas Knoll was a student at the University of Michigan when he decided to write a program for his Macintosh Plus. The program was a simple image viewer, but when his brother – John Knoll – caught wind, he suggested that Thomas turn it into an image editor. Thomas took 6 months to develop the first version of the photo editing program. They then took the idea to Adobe, who snapped the idea up. At that point, Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released.

20 years later, it became the premier image editing software for most. The first version only ran on Mac and because of the Monochromatic display, only created in black and white. There is not a day I go by without having to open up my version of Photoshop. I even used to do Photoshop contests – Here are some of the photoshops I did.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• The first computer Search Warrant
• Pong gets patented
• Analog Cellphone networks shut down

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1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created in Chicago, Illinois by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess. The Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) came together in 30 days, where it was then launched. Even though it was turned on for testing, today was the dayh the CBBS went into production.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Inauguration of 911
• First known Malware for Mac OS X
• Lance Armstrongs’ bike is stolen.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Craig Neidorf (Knight Lightning) is arrested
• Bandai unveils the Pippen Atmark Computer
• Yahoo refuses Microsoft’s offer

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Local Integrated Software Architecture (LISA)

1983 – at an introductory price of $9995, Apple introduces the Lisa computer – the first computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). The computer featured a 5 MHz 68000 microprocessor, 1 MB RAM, 12″ monochrome monitor, dual 5.25″ 860 KB floppy drives, a 5 MB hard drive and more. Lisa cost Apple Computer US$50 million to develop. The software for it cost Apple Computer US$100 million to develop.

“Lisa” is an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• I Love Lucy gave birth on TV
• First IBM PC virus was “the Brain”
• New York sets up 911 to accept photos from cell phones.

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1965 – Richard Wexelblat was the first candidate to complete his doctoral dissertation, hance giving him a degree in “Computer Science”. It was presented at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Today is the official birth of the Transistor
• Amazon Crashes
• HD Support for YouTube

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1998 – The first computer is controlled by thought. It was a man from Georgia who was paralyzed. Known only as J.R., a chip was implanted in his brain which would allow him to mentally control the PC.

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Other items in the Day in Tech History

• Sig Hartmann resigns from Commodore
• Sony introduces the PS2 in the US
• Facebook releases Scribe

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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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April 28th 2003. With 200,000 songs and a eye on the music market, Apple launched the iTunes Store. At that time, the Windows version was not out yet (had to wait until October 17th of that year), but the first week alone they had over a million sales.

Other items of note – the first computer mouse and the first Windows mouse. We also saw the Sasser Worm come up and Google’s IPO.

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