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May 31, 2019

June 1, 1979: the 8088 Microprocessor

1979 – Intel released the successor to the 8086 processor in the Intel 8088 chip. With a clock rate of either 4.77 MHz or 8 MHz, this 16-bit chip had an external bus of 8 bits and 29,000 transistors. It was used in IBM PC and PC-XT computers during the 80’s. Descendants to the 8088 are the 80188, 80186, and what would become the 386, 486 and Pentium chips. Steve Jobs becomes the major apple shareholder with 1.5 million MN city makes Google remove Street view pictures The first batch of Scotch Whiskey is made by Friar John Cor Google Launches Google+...

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May 30, 2019

May 31, 2006: The Pirate Bay Raided, Swedish Political Party Increased

2006 – Swedish police raid the host of the Pirate Bay BitTorrent. On the same day, the Pirate Bay political party increased their numbers by 500, with an additional 930 joining the following day. The site stayed down for 3 days, but came back to double the traffic due to the media coverage. Apple restructures, removes Steve Jobs Microsoft Office XP is released Swedish Police raid the Pirate Bay Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe! Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS | More

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May 29, 2019

May 30, 1987: Compact Disc Video (CD-V) Format Released

1987 – North American Phillips Company introduced the compact disc video format. Using the same technology as LaserVision, the “CD’s with Pictures” would be gold in color and the same size as an audio CD. They could hold up to 800 MB – which would allow for a full length movie in SD, or a video music album. The CD-V didn’t last that long, dissolving by 1991. TurboLinux OS 7 released Windows NT 3.51 released (adding Power PC support) The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first paper in the US Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe! Apple Podcasts | Android...

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May 28, 2019

May 29, 1999: Five Million Domain Names Registered

1999 – Believeinkids.com became the five-millionth domain name in the world. At the time, a domain name cost $70 for the first year, $35 a year thereafter. The domain name was abandoned and is still available to this day. Vim 4.0 is released IEEE 1394 officially becomes “Firewire” Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe! Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS | More

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May 27, 2019

May 28, 2014: Apple Music Acquires Beats

2014 – Rumors flew high on this one, so when it happened, many people were not surprised. Apple announced they were going to acquire Beats Music and Electronics in a $3 billion deal. As part of the acquisition, co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine would join Apple. Beats subscription service would continue to work as part of the service would be integrated with iTunes. Currently, Beats has a 20 million song library, and is available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone for a $9.99 subscription. Steve Jobs is removed as General Manager of Macintosh Division Yahoo! completes Acquisition of Geocities 3DO...

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May 26, 2019

May 27, 2003: WordPress CMS Released

2003 – Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little created a Fork of B2/cafelog. From there, WordPress was born. Since its release, WordPress has taken over Content Management Systems (CMS) with its ease of use and plethora of programmers that have made plugins, themes and other tweaks to the system since. The current version is 3.5.1 which has been downloaded over 18 million times. Other Events in the Day in Technology History Wang introduces: Wang Personal computer Batman Debuts in Detective comics #27 Google gives away 4,000 Android phones at Google I/O Digital currency Liberty Reserve is shut down Podcast: Play in new...

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May 25, 2019

May 26, 1998: AMD K6-2 Processor

1998 – At the beginnings of the AMD / Intel battle, AMD brought out a processor to dual with Pentium II. The AMD K6-2 processor was a Super Socket 7 pin structure, which also was compatible with older Socket 7 motherboards. With 9.3 million transistors, the K6-2 had a CPU clock rate of 266 to 550 MHz. Of course, these were single-core processors and had front side bus of either 66 or 100 MHz. The K6-2 also featured the MMX and 3DNow! instruction set. The K6-2+ was added to keep up with Pentium III processors. The processor line only lasted...

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May 24, 2019

May 25, 1999: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000

1999 – A program first developed by Brigham young University for Data General minicomputers, WordPerfect was the word processing application for anyone using a computer in the 80’s and 90’s. I remember writing reports and papers using this software growing up, along with Quattro Pro for bookkeeping and printing daily reports at work. However, in 1994, WordPerfect started to gain some major competition when computers turned to GUI, and DOS was getting put on the back burner. Corel, the owners of WordPerfect since 1996, wanted to ramp up production of not only the word processor, but also their other products in...

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Category: Day in Tech History

June 1, 1979: the 8088 Microprocessor

May 31, 2006: The Pirate Bay Raided, Swedish Political Party Increased

May 30, 1987: Compact Disc Video (CD-V) Format Released

May 29, 1999: Five Million Domain Names Registered

May 28, 2014: Apple Music Acquires Beats

May 27, 2003: WordPress CMS Released

May 26, 1998: AMD K6-2 Processor

May 25, 1999: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000

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