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1976 – Steve Wozniak, an employee at Hewlett Packard at the time, builds his first Apple computer. It was for the Homebrew club and incorporates his designs. The computer club is held the next day and Steve Jobs meets up with Woz, where they will join forces and create the Apple 1 computer. Of course, that computer only sold 200, but it was the segway to the Apple II, one of the best selling computers of all time.

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• LISP Programmers Manual is released
• Palm Inc gets it’s first IPO
• MSNBC.com launches Newsvine

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1996 – It was the single largest online event at the time. 24 Hours in cyberspace was coordinated by Rick Smolan to capture photos representing a day in the life of the internet user. Photos would be handed in from around the world and put out on Cyber24 dot com. The website is no longer in service and there is no good Internet Archive to the site.

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• The Communications Deceny Act becomes Law
• The Harvard Mark I

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1988 – Spectrum Holobyte releases the puzzle game Tetris for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC. This was the first game imported from the Soviet Union. The game was written by Alexi Paszitnov and Vagim Gerasimov at the Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The Commodore 64 version would cost you $24.95, and the IBM version cost $34.95.

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• Microsoft releases Word 3.0 for Mac
• Best Buy announces they will stop selling Macintosh
• AOL compensates subscribers for their “unlimited internet” issues

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• Version 2.2 of Linux
• Jini Network Architecture
• Judge reinstates how Microsoft can incorporate Sun Java

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1984 – Apple created the opportunity of a lifetime with the Macintosh. It was the first mouse-driven computer and Graphical User Interface (GUI) machine. The machine would have a release date of Jan 24, and held a 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor. It had 128 KB DRAM and came with a 9″ black-and-white CRT with resolution of 512×342. The price of the machine was $2495

But what was key to this computer launch was the ad. This ad ran Nationally only once – If you missed the Superbowl, you would have missed the Ad – that is, unless you watched the news the next day. The ad appeared in the 3rd Quarter of the game.

By the way: Superbowl XVIII pitted the LA Raiders vs. the Washington Redskins. Raiders won 38-9. The average cost for ad space: $368,000. Apple’s budget on the commercial – $900,000. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) directed it. The Board of Directors did not like the Spot, but Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did. Woz even stated that if the board was to reject the commercial, he would pay for the spot out of his own pocket.

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• Microsoft releases IE for Mac
• AOL sues Microsoft on behalf of Netscape for IE
• Cell Phone Tax rejected

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1990 – The Chicago Task raids the home of Craig Neidorf – A.K.A. Knight Lightning. The group, along with Bellsouth, are looking for information on an article published in the hacker rag “PHRACK – Control Office Administration of Enhanced 911 Service”. The article was written by “the Eavesdropper” and contained information that was obtained by documents stolen from Bellsouth.

The group doesn’t have a warrant, but when they show up the next day with one, Neidorf’s hard drive comes up missing. Craig will then be arrested for tampering.

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• Stac Electronics sues Microsoft for Patent infringement
• TRS 80 Model 12 is introduced
• NewsCorp and MySpace are sued because 4 girls are sexually assulted

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1968 – Ralph Baer applies for a patent on a TV game system he designed. This, of course, sparks the Video Game age and Ralph becomes the inventor and Pioneer of the field. In 2006, he was honored with a National Medal of Technology for the advancement.

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• Intel acquires Xircom
• Wikipedia is launched
• Coveritlive and Twitter goes down for Steve Jobs Keynote

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1889 – Herman Hollerith obtains a patent for his Tabulating machine. It’s a punch card system that will be used in compiling consensus statistics beginning in 1890.

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• the DOJ drops the IBM anti-trust case
• Night Trap will get re-released when the video game industry puts out the new rating system.
• Netgear is founded
• Palm Pre is announced

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1972 – HP introduces the HP-35 – which was the first handheld scientific calculator. It was named after the fact it had 35 buttons. The unit weighed 9 oz and cost $395. However, this would ultimately be dubbed “The slide-rule killer”

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• The Dancing Baby Debuts
• Business Software Alliance offers amnesty to pirates
• Spam King Stanford Wallace and FTC agreement

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Happy New Year – Happy New Decade.

1983 – It was an order by the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense, Richard DeLauer. The ARPANET was to have finished a conversion from the Network Control Protocol it was on, to Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. Otherwise known as TCP/IP.

The transistion went smooth, and everyone got a button for their hard work stating “I survived the TCP/IP transition”.

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• Happy 16th Anniversary, Bill and Melinda Gates
• The Kermit project begins
• DOD and Walmart implement RFID tags

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On this day, we basically crunch numbers. This is where you will see companies let you know how much of their products are out there. How many copies of Windows have been sold, how many PC’s were bought – how much shareware has been downloaded. These stats will drive how the next year is to be written. Then, they blank the numbers and start the crazy cycle all over again.

The majority of the podcast will go over these statistics. But don’t worry – there is still a lot of other history to go through. But it’s still cool to know that in 1981, 250 million floppy disk drives were shipped to date…

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• CROMEMCO is incorporated
• AT&T Bell is broken up
• The Last Calvin and Hobbes strip

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