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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Apple phases out computers in Best Buy, Circuit City, Office Max and Sears
• Free-PC will no longer give away Free PCs
• Microsoft releases Windows XP SP1

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2007 – Microsoft releases Windows Vista in many different versions to the public – Home, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic N and Business N. With a Codename of “Longhorn”, this was the next version to XP and introduced many new features including the redesigned start button and glass borders. The Ultimate version even had active background, where your desktop picture could be moving.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Atari starts using the slogan “Innovative Leisure”
• Samsung acquires the remaining 51 percent of AST
• Sega announces the Dreamcast will be discontinued

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1994 – The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) held its first meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Albert Vezza and Tim Berners-Lee founded the group to development and maintain international standards for the World Wide Web. Since then, the W3C has overseen the validation efforts in HTML and other formats.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Delta rolls out WiFi on flights
• Microsoft releases Windows NT 4.0 SP2
• Edward R. Murrow features the Whirlwind computer on See It Now

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On this day, the word “hacking” was used in an issue of “the tech”, which is a massachusetts institute of technology newspaper.

Here is a snippet of the article:

Many telephone services have been curtailed because of so-called hackers, according to Prof. Carlton Tucker, administrator of the Institute phone system…

Basically, hackers were tying up phone lines between Harvard and MIT.

1985 – Also on this day, Microsoft releases Windows 1.0, the 16 bit graphical system in 4 versions. 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 and 1.04. 1.02 and 1.03 were language versions, while 1.04 let people use new technologies like VGA monitors and a cool feature of “Multitasking” in MS-DOS. The OS only cost $99.99

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Other Technology History Facts:

• AT&T launches the Teletype
• Intel launches the Pentium 4

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1995 – Microsoft releases Windows 95. It was a stellar event with it’s newest operating system. The first MS OS in 32 bit mode, it also debut TCP/IP, dial up networking and Long Filename support. The event brought along many different celebrations, including places like New York, which lit up the Empire State Building with the Windows colors.

IBM wasn’t sure if they were getting Windows 95 until 15 minutes before release. Companies like HP and Compaq (at that time they were separate) were able to let consumers know that they will get upgrades, but IBM could not make that promise.

Other items in today’s DITH:

• NT 4.0 is released
• BLEEM wins another round from Playstation
• Apple recalls 1.8 million batteries

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