Day in Tech History

The Day in Technology History is a podcast detailing what happened in Tech. This is a daily podcast, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We look at stories of the Information Age, dates of artifacts, creation of Silicon Valley and the history of companies like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Commodore, Facebook, Twitter and more. It’s a Computer museum in a podcast.

Day in Tech History/ Google

June 28, 2011: Google Plus (Google+) Beta Announced

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2011 – Google announced a Beta version of their Social Network to rival Facebook – Google+ (Google Plus). It was invite-only beta, and those who got in experienced the G+ experience. Google introduced circles – where you can place your friends and family. Sparks was a hashtag-type service that was discontinued later in the year. The biggest part of Google+ is the hangout – ability to video chat with up to 9 others. Other options like instant upload let you organize and share quickly.

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1999 – HydraBBS software was released
Williamette – a.k.a. Pentium 4 – is announced
AMD files antitrust suit against Intel
Motorola introduces the 16 MHz 68020 processor

Day in Tech History/ Internet

June 27, 1995: Mosaic, Spyglass get IPO

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1995– A company founded by students in Illinois, Spyglass becomes a publicly traded company. Of course, their web browser – Mosaic – was the heart of their software. Spyglass was used in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 1.0. The company was ultimately acquired by OpenTV, a privately held internet TV company.

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Gillette makes the Erasermate – the first erasable pen
Atari is established
Bill Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft

Day in Tech History/ Geek

June 26: From Julian to Gregorian Calendar

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Could you imagine saying today’s date as 2456450.35446? Looks like a stardate, but it’s the Julian calendar calculation of today’s date. The Julian calendar was moved to the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar is 365.25 and was used by some countries until as late as last century. Julian date simply counted up from Universal Time on January 1, 4713 BCE.

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Microsoft retires support for MS-DOS
The First Barcode was scanned
IBM Blue Gene/P
Apple Mac G4 Computers were released

Day in Tech History/ Internet

June 25, 2009: Michael Jackson Passes, Social Media Goes Down

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2009 – Pop star Michael Jackson is rushed to the hospital. He first was in a coma, but then it was reported he passed away. This brought several social network sites down from the flood of reminiscence and questions. Google search had problems, too, as people would search on the pop star. Wikipedia was stressed due to continual edits to his Wiki page. A major change was made to MediaWiki after that incident to lock down certain pages when major events occur.

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Paul Allen places an offer of $30 thousand for 86-DOS
Geocities was hacked
AOL hits 30 million users

Day in Tech History/ Geek

June 24, 200: The First Presidential Webcast

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2000 – President William Jefferson Clinton was the first president to do a webcast. He announced the website that will also be able to search resources through the government.

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Symantec acquires Ghost software
Florida Judge grants Apple permission to continue lawsuit against Psystar
Who Framed Roger Rabbit releases

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June 23, 2003: Safari 1.0 Released to Public

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2003 – Steve Jobs releases the first version of the Safari web browser. He announced the browser on Jan 7, with Beta download to web developers. However, it wasn’t until June 23rd that Safari was released to the public.By Mac OSX 10.5.3, it was officially the browser of Apple Mac. A Windows version of Safari was released on June 11, 2007. Of course, Safari is the browser packaged with iPhone, and later iPad. There were a few controversies on Apple’s solution for viewing the Web. The biggest was a “Carpet Bomb” attack that could compromise people’s data if they didn’t know not to select the links.

Safari makes up for 14.09% of the browser market (behind IE, Chrome and Firefox [in that order]).

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Nintendo 64 is launched
The Typewriter is patented

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

June 22, 2000: .Net Technology Unveiled to Public

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2000 – Microsoft unveils the “.net” architecture to the public. Working with Microsoft products, the features would include a user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, network communications and more. Programmers could then integrate into their own code. Further Reading: .NET

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Dean Fox leaves Atari
IBM and NNSA announce Blue Gene/L
Kodak ends production of Kodachrome film

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

June 21, 1995: Microsoft to Netscape “Do Not Compete with IE”

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June 21, 1995: Microsoft Sends out a “Do not compete” request to Netscape

1995 – It’s the one event that brought major legal woes to the software giant. Microsoft representatives met with Netscape reps, requesting they do not compete the Netscape Navigator browser with Microsoft’sInternet Explorer. They would, in turn, get a seat on the board of directors. Co-creator Jim Clark turned down the offer, then took the matter to his lawyer. Joel Klein hears the issue and that starts the initial inquiries through the Department of Justice.Further Read: Microsoft on Antitrust

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Start of the Summer Solstice
Congress Robot Caucus
SSEM runs first program
Final Cut Pro 10 was released to very negative reviews

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