Posts Tagged ‘Geek’

1985 – 25 years ago, Symbolics.com became the first domain registered on the World Wide Web.  In fact, if you go to their website, they have a countdown clock to the historic event. The company made Lisp machines (workstations), most notably, the 3600 series. Since then, the site was purchased by XF.com Investments (now, XF.com) – Aron Meystedt. No purchase price was disclosed for the domain.

Note – the first domain ever created was Nordu.net, but was never registered.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• IBM 1050 Data Communications System
• First Unix manual page for cc
• Cisco acquires Webex for $3.2 Billion

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1986 – It’s full name is Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik (Centre of Office and Information technology). CeBit actually was started in the 70’s with the Hanover fair. However, the two separated in 1986 when it was decided that together, the two were not doing too well. Since then, CeBit has grown to be a very important conference for all IT.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• V-Chip technology becomes mandatory in televisions
• AOL buys Bebo
• Hulu launches in the US

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1988 – Ignatius T. Foobar launches one of the more interesting and long-lasting Bulletin board systems in the Uncensored BBS. Of course, his name was really Art Cancro, but Ignatius used an Altos 586 running Citadel/UX software. This BBS is still running to this day, even though dial-up access has been discontinued since 2001.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Richard D Kenadek is sentenced in the Davy Jones Locker BBS case
• Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are launched into space
• Google releases Android 1.1

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1983 -IBM announces the IBM Personal Computer XT (eXtended Technology). It features a Intel 8088 processor,  10MB hard drive, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM and double-sided 360 kB floppy drive. For $4995, it’s all yours.

The IBM PC XT was the successor to the IBM PC. It was developed until April 1987.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Sierra and Broderbund announce the merge to Sierra-Broderbund
• The first GHz processors begin to ship
• Sun sues Microsoft

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1975 – Gordon French and Fred Moore put together the first Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, CA. The group was put together to discuss the Altair home kit, as well as talk about building computers in general. Of course, the most important meeting was Steve Wozniak who brought the first Apple computer, meeting Steve Jobs.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• WMS Industries acquires Atari
• President Barak Obama appoints Vivek Kundra as CTO

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K.C. Munchkin

1982 – a popular game for the Odyssey2 system was called K.C. Munchkin. However, this game looked a little too much like Pac-Man. A Federal court in Chicago, IL. agreed. They ordered Philips Consumer Electronics to take the game off store shelves. A sequal was released called Crazy Chase, which was a game that mocked the legal battle of the Pac-Mac – K.C. Munchkin. Of course that game was very close to Centipede, which could have caused a new legal issue altogether.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Unix Timestamp hits 9 decimal places
• Rodney King beating caught on tape
• Gibson vs. Guitar Hero case thrown out

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2003 – As the Space Shuttle Columbia was re-entering into Earth’s atmosphere, the shuttle disintegrated. It killed all 7 astronauts. After review, NASA discovered that a puncture on the wing had created a structural flaw – like when you have a ding on your windshield, if not repaired, it could completely comprimise the glass – and the ship fell apart.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Empire Strikes Back – Special Edition
• IBM Sues Eagle Computer
• Legend of Zelda is released

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Happy Valentines Day!

1946 – J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly debut the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). 17,468 vacuum tubes at 100,000 pulses/second. It was part of a $400,000 contract from the U.S. Army.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Texas Instruments makes the first “micro on a chip”
• Lotus Symphony
• Nintendo releases the Game Boy Advanced SP

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This week, the 5 Tech Things you should know looks at:

• Google Buzz
• CEO of MySpace resigns
• YouTube’s new Censorship
• Kindle vs. iPad
• The Muppets Take the Internet

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2000 – 10:15 AM, Mafiaboy – a 16 year old hacker from Canada – targets 7 sites with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). Amazon, Buy.com, CNN, eBay, E*Trade, MSN and ZDNet are all affected. Mafiaboy would be sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center for this DDoS.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• 1983 – Atari Sues Coleco
• Gary Kasparov and Deep Junior 7 end in a tie
• the Cell Processor

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This week, the 5 Tech Things you should know looks at

• Flash is archaic. HTML5 will be the thing on iPad and iPhone
• Twitter Password changes from Torrent phishing site
• iPhone 3.1.3 breaks Jailbroken phones
• Monster buys Hotjobs
• Toyota recall by the Woz

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