Posts Tagged ‘fortran’

1923 – More Geek than Tech, Walt and Roy Disney start what is known as the Walt Disney Company. It was an animation studio.

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Other Tech History items:

• FORTRAN is released
• Wal-Mart Sues Amazon
• iTunes for Windows
• President Bill Clinton signs the web copyright law

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Last year we had one of the weirdest news stories come out. A man was thought to be killed by his LG phone battery when it exploded in his shirt pocket. There was a lot of controversy over this issue at the time – whether an item that is pretty volitile should be regulated and monitored more closely. It was then discovered…. well, you’ll have to listen to the Quickcast to find out what happened next.

Also, Microsoft is first spoken of, Fortran 2003 is released, Ken Jennings looses, Roxio buys Napster and so much more on the Quickcast.

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Here is what we’re talking about in TWITH.

eMule

OLPC

exploding Cell Phones

First Excel Macrovirus

Atari Buyout

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