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/ Google

April 29, 2004: Google Filed for IPO

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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 auction.

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Other Events in the Day in Technology History

Apple discontinues Macintosh XL
Commodore declares bankruptcy
Oracle finalizes their merger of BEA

Apple/ Day in Tech History

April 28, 2003: Apple Launched iTunes Music Store

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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 vendor in the US in 2008.

With 28 million songs, over 1 million podcasts, 40,000 music videos, 3,000 shows and even the Beatles library, iTunes music store continues to dominate the market. Of course things exploded in 2007 when Steve Jobs put apps into the iTunes store. Apple just celebrated the 40 billion app mark and 25 billion song mark.

Today, Apple iTunes commands 63% of digital downloads.

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3DO sells to Samsung for $20 Million
Sanford Wallace – the SPAM king – was sued by MySpace
Intel removes processor ID tracking technology

AOL/ Day in Tech History

April 27, 1998: Koko Gorilla Gets On AOL Chat

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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.

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Xerox introduces the 8010 Star Information System.
Captain Midnight hijacks an HBO satellite
Giants Pitcher Brian Wilson’s Twitter is shut down due to posts that could give advantage

Day in Tech History/ Geek

April 26, 1983: TRS-80 Model 4

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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 64 KB and 5.25 disk drives. The first TRS-80 was released in 1977.

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IBM 7030 – the Stretch Supercomputer
Last release of the Nemesis
AOL purchases Flea-Flicker

Day in Tech History/ Gaming

April 25, 1980: Activision Formed

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Activision is Founded — April 25, 1980: Activision Fantastic Four comes together

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 stayed behind until April 25th when Activision came out. Richard Muchmore was the venture capitalist and Jim Levy rounded the group as Activision’s CEO.

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Sun Microsystems announces project JXTA
XP x64 OS
Yahoo begins the national TV ad campaign

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April 24, 1984: Apple IIc Introduced

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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 plug in cards. It was deemed an appliance computer, which meant was ready to go when you pulled it out of the box.

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Other Events in the Day in Technology History

IBM PC first announced (but wouldn’t be released until Aug 12th)
Amiga 3000 announced
Cnet / Yahoo deal
Google Drive is released

Day in Tech History/ Geek

April 23, 1964: Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) Decommissioned

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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.

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Internet Explorer 2.0 is released for Mac 7.0.1
Carnegie Mellon warns users of the CIH virus
Ubuntu 9.04 is released

Day in Tech History/ Internet

April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser

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1993 – The National Center for Supercomputing Applications releases version 1.0 (RTM) of the Mosaic Web Browser. It was the first browser with a Graphical user interface for content. Marc Andreesen and Jim Clark were the lead developers. The browser would take the internet by storm and continue to lead until 1998 when IE and Netscape came on the scene.

Mosaic was originally released in Beta (0.1) on January 23, 1993 – as a post in the newsgroup indicate**

Here is the official RTM thread

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Juno launches Juno free e-mail
Connectix stops shipping the Virtual Game Station for Mac
eBay sues Craigslist over “Diluting of Share”Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.infosystems

**Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 07:21:17 -0800

From: ma…@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)

By the power vested in me by nobody in particular, alpha/beta version
0.5 of NCSA’s Motif-based networked information systems and World
WidWeb browser, X Mosaic, is hereby released:

location removed

This release of X Mosaic is known to compile on the following
platforms:

SGI (IRIX 4.0.2)
IBM (AIX 3.2)
Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.2 with stock X11R4 and Motif 1.1).

Binaries for these platforms are available on ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
/Web/xmosaic/binaries-0.5. More binaries will be supplied as I am
able to find other Motif-configured platforms to use (DEC MIPS
probably within the next half hour).

Although this is alpha/beta software, I’m looking more for feedback on design and functionality than bug reports right now — down the road
the bulk of the program will be rewritten in C++ anyway, so don’t
take the current code too seriously. But bug reports are welcome too.
New releases will probably come out about every 7-14 days until 1.0
arrives.

A list of current and future capabilities of X Mosaic follows this
message.

Cheers,
Marc

—
Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
ma…@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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