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.

Steve Wozniak

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March 1, 1976: Steve Wozniak Builds His First Computer

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March 1, 1976: Steve Wozniak

1976 – Steve Wozniak, an employee at Hewlett Packard (at the time), builds his first computer motherboard. He showed it off at the Homebrew club, where he was inspired. Steve Jobs meets up with Woz, where he convinces him to keep the design (not to sell it). They will then join up to create the Apple 1 computer.

Of course, that computer only sold 200, but it was the segway to the Apple II, one of the best selling computers of all time.Read more from the book: Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 1

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  • LISP Programmers Manual is released
  • Palm Inc gets it’s first IPO
  • MSNBC.com launches Newsvine

February 29: Atari Moved

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Happy Leap Day! We get to do this special episode once every four years, so here is your Leap Day in Tech History!

1996 – Atari moves it’s  offices from 1196 Borregas Avenue in Sunnyvale, CA to 455 South Mathilda Avenue in Sunnyvale,CA. The new location gives Atari 7,208 square feet. It was a Bank of America building, and still had the vault door. Jack Tramiel, Sam Tramiel, Leonard Tramiel, Garry Tramiel, Dave Schwartz, John Skruch, Donald A. Thomas, Jr., Scott Sanders, Max Fagan, and Gayle McKim occupied the offices.

Wikazine – Full show notes for February 29

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Thanks for listening. Day in Tech History will be taking a small sabbatical.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: You might be seeing content daily again. This is last year’s show rescheduled. Reality is the podcast is still relevant to 98% (minus events in 2015). I hope you enjoy the re-posts and keep the show in your feeds until new episodes come back.

Thanks to all the loyal listeners of Day in Tech History. I will be taking a break from this show and focusing on other podcasts. After 2100 episodes run daily, 7 days a week without fail, I need some time to reinvigorate myself and the show.

Thanks again.

Jeffrey Powers

Gottlieb Daimler Car

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July 23, 1886: First Car Ever

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Gottlieb Daimler Car

Back in 1886, Gottlieb Daimler gets into his new invention. It looks like a horse-drawn buggy, but it has a one cylinder 1.1 HP engine mounted in the back seat. The first car got up to 16 km/h
Seventeen years later, in 1903, Ford Motor company sells it’s first car. A Model A to Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago. It was a twin cylindar combustion engine.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 23

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  • IBM goes Open-Source
  • Palm launches the Tungston T2
  • Commodore unveils the Amiga 1000
Y2K

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July 20, 1999: Y2K Act Gives Government Protection

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July 20, 1999: Y2k bill signed into law

In a step to protect companies from any post Y2K problems, in 1999, President Bill Clinton signs a bill into law protecting companies from legal action.

Today I have signed into law H.R. 775, the “Y2K Act.” This is extraordinary, time-limited legislation designed to deal with an exceptional and unique circumstance of national significance—the Y2K computer problem.

In signing this legislation, I act in the belief and with the expectation that companies in the high technology sector and throughout the American economy are serious in their remediation efforts and that such efforts will continue. Many have worked hard to identify the potential for Y2K failures among their systems and products, taken reasonable measures to inform those who might be injured from Y2K failures of steps they could take to avoid the harm, and fixed those systems and products, where feasible. If nonetheless there are significant failures or disruptions as we enter the Year 2000, plaintiffs will turn to the courts seeking compensation. Responsible companies fear that they will spend millions or more defending Y2K suits, even if they bear little or no responsibility for the harm alleged. Frivolous litigation could burden our courts and delay relief for those with legitimate claims. Firms whose productivity is central to our economy could be distracted by the defense of unwarranted lawsuits.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 20

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July 16, 1995: Amazon Goes Online

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July 16, 1995: Amazon.com launches

Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. That was the first book Amazon sold on July 16th, 1995. The company ran from their garage in Bellevue, Washington. 3 SPARC machines was all they had and a cool little mechanism that rung a bell every time a book was sold. The business model was set to make profit in 5 years. It was a good thing, because that may have helped it survive the dot com bubble.

20 years later, Amazon is going strong. Purchases of companies like WOOT! and Zappos!, along with the introduction of Kindle e-reader and Amazon Prime, the company is one of the largest resellers of product on the web.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 16

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Other today in technology historical facts:

  • Happy Birthday Dan Bricklin and Orville Redenbacher
  • Michael Dell steps aside as CEO
  • Yahoo! Hires Marissa Mayer as CEO
Enigma machine

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July 15, 1928: Enigma Machine Introduced

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Enigma Machine
Enigma Machine

The Enigma machine was the first electronic cipher machines, producing encrypted messages. German engineer Arthur Scherbius created this device in 1928 to turn a message into a jumble of code. Therefore, if the message got in the wrong hands, it could not be read.Of course, though time, the encryption was broken by British intelligence. However, it proved that we could put a level of security to a simple text message. Something we continue to strive for even today.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 15

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  • Microsoft releases C#
  • iTunes 8.2.1 blocks Palm Pre
  • Nintendo launches the “Famicon”
  • “Gangnam Style” by Psy releases
  • Twitter Released
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July 14, 1995: Microsoft Announces Windows 95

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1995 – After 15 million lines and 3 years of programming,Microsoft announces Windows 95 (a.k.a. Chicago) was deemed “Golden“.That meant Microsoft could not make any more fixes or adjustments would be made until it’s release on August 24th. Of course, Microsoft Windows 95 was their first 32-bit operating system and considered a major game changer in the world of computers.

Geekazine Fact: Jeffrey Powers got his IT career as a support agent for Windows 95.

2011 – The US waited for this Swedish music streaming service, and on this day, we got it. Founded in 2006, Spotify announced after exhaustive negotiation with four major US record labels, they were given the green light to launch. It came with much praise from the online community. Since then, Spotify was integrated with Facebook, and launched their own apps and app finder.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 14

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  • 386BSD is released
  • A girl falls into a manhole while texting
  • PalmOne changes back to Palm
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