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1965 – The First Transatlantic Television Signal from “Early Bird” Intelsat I
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1965 – The First Transatlantic Television Signal from “Early Bird” Intelsat I
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1965 – Intelsat I, a.k.a. Early Bird, went into service. This geosynchronous satellite sent the first signal between nine different countries. A “One Hour TV Spectacular” was broadcast to Europe from the US, Canada, and Mexico. Intelsat I went up in space on April 6, 1965 and had only 240 […]
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April 30, 1993: World Wide Web Transferred to Public Domain
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1993 – You may see www, but it’s true meaning is World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee wrote WorldWideWeb during the 1990, while working for CERN. He did it on a NeXT Computer and developed it for the NeXTSTep platform (which Apple bought and turned into Mac OS X). But […]
April 29, 2004: Google Filed for IPO
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2004 – Google files the S-1 form with SEC for their IPO. They said they wanted to raise US$2,718,281,828; a Mathematical algorithm based on the day they filed. The form can be found at SEC.gov The stock finally started trading on August 19, 2004 at $85 a share in a unique online […]
April 28, 2003: Apple Launched iTunes Music Store
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2003-Apple launches the iTunes Store. iTunes has been around since 2001, but without option to get new music. Before the iTunes store, users would have to burn from CD or copy previously made MP3 files. The store sold 1 million songs within a week. Apple became the biggest music […]
April 27, 1998: Koko Gorilla Gets On AOL Chat
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1998 – Using AOL chat, a sign language interpreter and an active audience, a female gorilla named Koko answered questions to the public. Koko resides at the Gorilla Foundation and with a vocabulary of 2,000 words, was able to respond to the chat room. Xerox introduces the 8010 Star […]
April 26, 1983: TRS-80 Model 4
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1983– The Trash-80, as it was so admirably called in the day, a.k.a. the TRS-80 Model 4 is introduced. It contains a 4 MHz processor, 16 KB of RAM, a cassette interface, Keyboard and Monochrome monitor. $1000 for the base model, or $2000 if you upgraded the RAM to […]
April 25, 1980: Activision Formed
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1980 – Activision was technically founded in 1979, but it wasn’t until April 25 that the “Fantastic Four” joined up as the first third-party software company for video games. David Crane and Alan Miller left Atari August 1979 to start programming under the Activision name. Larry Kaplan and Bob Whitehead […]
April 24, 1984: Apple IIc Introduced
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1984 – Apple introduces the Apple IIc, their answer to a portable machine. It weighed 7 1/2 lbs and featured a 1.023MHz CPU and 128 KB RAM. $1,295. The device device had a built-in floppy and peripheral expansion ports. This was a closed system – no expansion slots to […]
April 23, 1964: Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) Decommissioned
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1964– The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) is retired after fifteen years. SEAC was the first to use all-diode logic. SEAC was bason on EDVAC. It had 747 vacuum tubes, and the clock rate was under 1 mHz. Internet Explorer 2.0 is released for Mac 7.0.1 Carnegie Mellon warns […]
