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1889 – The first commercial jukebox was installed in San Francisco, CA. It was called the “Nickel-in-the-Slot”, and played wax cylinder records. Within 6 months it would earn $1,000. The word “Juke” – by the way – means ‘disorderly house’ – therefore this is a disorderly box of music.

Put another  nickel in – in the Nickelodean – All I want is having you – and Music, music, music.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Dr. Who first airs on the BBC
• Nintendo releases the Gameboy color
• Security hole in Gmail discovered

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If you visit my site regularly, you may know that I’m not a gamer. I don’t pretend to be one and I don’t play one on TV. All the game consoles I ever bought ended up at my brothers’ house. The most I ever got into a system was my first NES simply because I was addicted to Tetris.

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This week we talk Kinetoscopes, Apollo 15 and Lunar Modules, Microsoft and Nintendo Lawsuits, TRS-80, SCO, FBI and a whole bunch of acronyms.

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This week we travel back in time to a place where Slide Rule rules…

Worldcom and Bernard Ebbers

HP-35

Wii Wheel, Board and Zapper released

Surgical Zippers

Space Oddity

Rubiks Cube

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This weeks’ show had some issues as I had some issues with the recording unit. Had to switch to a SM57 mic for the recording, then used a lot of VST effects to clean it up.

Nonetheless, here is your week in tech history. We highlight:

Apple goes Intel

Microsoft Antitrust

Maxis – shocking

CIH Computer Virus

First Spacewalk

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Items Discussed this week:

Printing Press
Albert Einstein
George Lucas
Apple
Microsoft
IEEE
AMD
CentOS
Nintendo

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Web browsers are just as debated as Operating Systems and Political affiliations. The Web Browser is the program that allows you to browse the web, so you want the best experience possible. And Just like Operating Systems you can also choose the web browser that you use. So which one is it? IE or Firefox. Maybe Safari? Maybe even Opera?

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It’s Monday, so we run This Week in Tech History. Some of the things that happened this week:

• TRS-80 Model 100
• Halley’s Comet
• Phototransistor
• UNIVAC
• Gyroscopes
• Pirate Radio

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