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April 20, 2009: Oracle Purchases Sun Microsystems
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April 20, 2009: Oracle Purchases Sun Microsystems
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2009 – Oracle announces they have purchased Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion dollar deal. This includes stock at $9.50 / share. That would also be the acquisition of SPARC processors, Solaris OS, Java and MySQL, among other items. The deal would be finalized on January 27th 2010. Compaq […]
April 19, 2000: iPAQ, Cassiopeia, Jornada Released
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2000– Before smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants were the device to have. You could store contacts, write memos, set up, read and send email and even play a nice game of Solitaire, or the game where you eliminated color marbles. I – in my IT career – not only had a […]
April 18, 2006: HD DVD Format
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2006 – Toshiba launches the HD DVD format in the US. The first HD DVD players were the HD-A1 and HD-XA1. RCA would rebrand the A1 to the HDV-5000. The first HD DVD with TrueHD soundtrack was the Phantom of the Opera. Osborne Computer introduces the Osborne Executive and […]
April 17, 2000: Terraserver Releases Photos of Area 51
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2000 – Five arial images of Area 51 are leaked onto Terraserver from a Russian satellite called “Sovinformsputnik. The amount of traffic that went to the site brought the server down, so they had to take the photos off until they could handle the traffic. Qualified schools got copies […]
April 16, 1977: Debut of Apple II, Commodore Pet
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1977 – Apple Computer shows off the Apple II home computer at the West Coast Computer Faire. The $1,298 Home machine featured a 6502 processor, 4kb RAM 16kb ROM and for the first time – A home computer with color graphics. Apple II was the most recognizable home and […]
April 15, 2005:Damn Small Linux Released
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2005 – It was the release of the Damn Small Linux program, a Linux distribution that was designed to take up as little drive space as possible. John Andrews – DSL’s developer – Never allowed the ISO to go past 50 MB in size. You would be able to […]
April 14, 1996: JenniCam Debuts
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1996– Nineteen year old Jennifer Kaye Ringley takes several webcams and places them within her house. For the next seven years, she would livestream her life to all on the Internet. Since Ringley was raised a nudist, she would appear on the video without clothes on. The site was […]
April 13, 1965: Moore’s Law
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1965– You may have heard about Moore’s Law. This states that every 18 months, a processor will double in speed. The law’s name is coined after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore. He said: It can’t continue forever. The nature of the exponential is that you push them out and eventually […]
April 12, 1976: Apple’s 3rd Co-Founder Ronald Wayne
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 1976– What a position Ronald Wayne was in. He was the 3rd co-founder of Apple Computer on April 1 with 10% share. However, after two weeks Wayne sells his share for $800 back to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The reason why was because if the company was to […]
April 11, 2009: Susan Boyle’s YouTube Moment
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2009– Susan Boyle takes the Stage at “Britian’s Got Talent”. A person that most would write-off at first glance, sings “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables. Once she was done, the 48 year-old Scot got a standing ovation. The next day, her audition was posted and became one […]
