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1999 – Victoria Secret holds their annual fashion show after dealing with the networks for the last 10 years. The event attracts attention – 1.5 million visitors to be exact. The company uses the same idea the next year to rousing success. This was considered the first Major Successful webcast.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Namco acquires controlling interest in Atari
• AOL blackout
• Gibert Amelio becomes Chairman of Apple

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Firstly, we are changing the name of the show to Week in Tech History, or WITH.On the Weekend edition of WITH, we got two interesting events. First of all, it’s Pac Man Fever and It’s driving me crazy! 1979, Pac Man was introduced in Japan and in 1980 was introduced in the US. Of course, Pac Man was created by Namco, has over 30 spinoff games and even has a board game version.

There are a lot of other cool items in the weekend edition like IBM releases, XP SP1 and it’s officially Tom Cruise day.

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