Jeffrey Powers @geekazine

About Jeffrey Powers @geekazine

http://www.geekazine.com

I love tech history. I enjoy how we evolved from computers that fill a room to computers we wear on our bodies. I have put a full archive of tech history together at Wikazine. You can also talk history at Google +. I am also a podcaster and V-caster at Geekazine and a Podcast Coach at How to Record Podcasts. You can also sign up for a Helpout

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Day in Tech History

January 10, 2000: The (AOL) Time Warner Acquisition

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AOL – Time Warner

This is an interesting parallelism:1990 – Time Inc. acquires Warner Communications for $14.1 Billion.

2000 – AOL purchases Time Warner for $165 Billion in stock. The merger would finally complete on Jan 11 2001 when the Federal Trade Commission approves the merger.

AOL and Time Warner continue a relationship until 2009 when the two companies finally split.

Wikazine – Full show notes for January 10

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Apple releases the Macintosh Plus
Microsoft settles with Caldera
A court rules against Rambus due to their “Spoliation” of documents

Day in Tech History/ Geek

January 9, 1992: Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

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1992 – Technically a Smartphone is a Personal Digital Assistant. You can thank John Scully, CEO of Apple on that term. He coined it in reference to Apple joining the market by years end. Older known Personal Digital Assistants included Newton (Apple), Palm III (Palm), Handspring, Jordana, iPaq and more.Wikazine – Full show notes for January 9

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Mac OS X is unveiled
Ask.com reorganizes – CEO Jim Lanzone steps down
Verizon finishes acquisition of Alltel for $27.5 Billion

Computer/ Day in Tech History

January 8, 1889: Hollerith Tabulating Machine Patent

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1889 – Herman Hollerith obtains a patent for his Tabulating machine. It’s a punch card system that will be used in compiling consensus statistics beginning in 1890.Wikazine – Full show notes for January 8

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the DOJ drops the IBM anti-trust case
Night Trap will get re-released when the video game industry puts out the new rating system.
Netgear is founded
Palm Pre is announced

Day in Tech History/ Geek

January 7, 1982: Commodore 64 Introduced

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, amazon, apple, commodore 64, commodore international, day in tech history, historical events, ivan sutherland, jan 7, kb rom, Microsoft, microsoft basic, Podcast, Rhapsody, technology history 0 Comments January 7, 2014

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1982 – the Commodore 64 was introduced by Commodore international. If featured a 6510 processor, 64KB RAM, 20 KB ROM, Microsoft BASIC and was yours for $600. Add the Ulimax, with 2KB for another $149.

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Ivan Sutherland introduces the Sketchpad
Apple announces Rhapsody
Amazon.com goes down for 8 hours

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January 6, 1980: GPS week zero

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1980 – The first Global Positioning System (GPS) week zero starts. In the GPS system, dates are express as a number for the week of the year and one for the day of the week – For instance, we are in Cycle 1, Week 0541 and Day 02. GPS will recycle every 1,024 weeks (19.6 years).

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Jack Tramiel steps down as president of Commodore
Apple introduces the Lisa and Apple IIe
Liskula Cohen sues Google over Blogger remarks

Apple/ Day in Tech History/ Geek

January 5: CES and MacWorld

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CES-Logo

For the next week, you’ll hear a lot about “At CES” or “At MacWorld“. This is because Macworld and Consumer Electronics shows both competed during this week. Of course it wasn’t until 2009 where Macworld had to retool it’s date because Apple pulled completely out of the event.

For example, today 1985, Atari introduced the Atari XE and ST lines of computers. The Atari 520ST was dubbed the “Jackintosh” because the Atari was as powerful as a Mac at half the price.

Wikazine – Full show notes for January 5

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v 2.0 of Perl is released
Steve Jobs accepts CEO position at Apple
Steve Jobs announces he has a “Hormonal Imbalance”

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January 4, 1972: HP-35 Scientific Calculator

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1972 – HP introduces the HP-35 – which was the first handheld scientific calculator. It was named after the fact it had 35 buttons. The unit weighed 9 oz and cost $395. However, this would ultimately be dubbed “The slide-rule killer”

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The Dancing Baby Debuts
Business Software Alliance offers amnesty to pirates
Spam King Stanford Wallace and FTC agreement

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January 3, 2009: Bitcoin Introduced, 1983: Computer – Machine of the Year

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2009 – Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the virtual currency Bitcoin. Using Cryptocurrencies along with public-key encryption, the currency is recorded on the transaction log.

1983 – Instead of naming a person of the year for 1982, Time magazine decides to give the dubious honor to the Personal computer. It was interesting that it happened so early in the computers’ existence. Nonetheless, the computer was praised for it’s symbol to 1982. Now think of how that has changed in the last 28 years.

TIME‘s Man of the Year started in 1927, to put Charles Lindbergh on the cover. Lindbergh refused an article based on his trans-Atlantic flight and Time wanted to find a way to put him on the cover.

Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/108949#ixzz2GsyHUwiL
–brought to you by mental_floss!

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Matsushita acquires MCA
Yahoo! stock hits $475.00
Apple introduces iLife

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