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.

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January 19, 2012: MegaUpload Taken Down, 1983: Apple Lisa Introduced

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MegaUpload

2012 – Federal prosecutors shut down the file-sharing site MegaUpload.com. People that visited the site saw a FBI Anti-piracy takedown notice. The seized website mentions MegaUpload was accused of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal copyright infringement.

2013 – Kim Dot Com starts the website “Mega”

1983 – at an introductory price of $9995, Apple introduces the Lisa computer – the first computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). The computer featured a 5 MHz 68000 microprocessor, 1 MB RAM, 12″ monochrome monitor, dual 5.25″ 860 KB floppy drives, a 5 MB hard drive and more. Lisa cost Apple Computer US$50 million to develop. The software for it cost Apple Computer US$100 million to develop.“Lisa” is an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture.

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I Love Lucy gave birth on TV
First IBM PC virus was “the Brain”
New York sets up 911 to accept photos from cell phones.

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January 18, 1990: Chicago Raid of PHRACK, Knight Lightning

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1990 – The Chicago Task raids the home of Craig Neidorf – A.K.A. Knight Lightning. The group, along with Bellsouth, are looking for information on an article published in the hacker rag “PHRACK – Control Office Administration of Enhanced 911 Service”. The article was written by “the Eavesdropper” and contained information that was obtained by documents stolen from Bellsouth.

The group doesn’t have a warrant, but when they show up the next day with one, Neidorf’s hard drive comes up missing. Craig will then be arrested for tampering.

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Stac Electronics sues Microsoft for Patent infringement
TRS 80 Model 12 is introduced
NewsCorp and MySpace are sued because 4 girls are sexually assulted

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January 17, 1882: Carbon Microphone for Telephone

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1882 – Thomas Edison created more tech history when he was granted a patent for the carbon microphone for the telephone. The carbon was in between two cups and attached to the mouthpiece. The diaphragm would change pressure, causing the carbon to be pushed upon. That would send electric current to the other end – which would transpose it back to audio.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

The infamous “Apple Ad” shows up in movie theatres
IBM charged with the Sherman Antitrust Act
Apple reaches an “out of court” settlement with NeXT
Co-Founder Jerry Yang Steps down from Yahoo!
In protest to SOPA, many websites blacked out their web pages.

Day in Tech History/ Geek

January 16, 2009: Circuit City to Go out of Business

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2009 – You can be #2, and still not be doing all that great. This was the case for Circuit City. A failed buyout opportunity from Blockbuster and they were at the same point as CompUSA a couple years prior. Therefore, officials announced they will be closing the remaining stores and selling all assets.Ironically enough, Circuit City’s website assets were acquired by SystemMax – the same company that holds Comp USA’s web assets.

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Burger King De-Friend promotion on Facebook
Patrick Spence hands the Renegade BBS to Jeff Herrings
Lotus v. Borland

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January 15, 1968: Ralph Baer Patents First Video Game

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1968 – Ralph Baer applies for a patent on a TV game system he designed. This, of course, sparks the Video Game age and Ralph becomes the inventor and Pioneer of the field. In 2006, he was honored with a National Medal of Technology for the advancement.

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Intel acquires Xircom
Wikipedia is launched
Coveritlive and Twitter goes down for Steve Jobs Keynote

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January 14, 1914: First Assembly Line Ford Model T Car

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1914 – Although the Model T has been around since 1908, the first Ford Model T that was made on an assembly line was completed. This, of course, brought a new wave to the Auto and manufacturing industries. Ford has since been a leader in cars in the US.Interesting side-note: Henry Ford was on the cover of Time Magazine on Jan 14, 1935.

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Intel 2.4 GHz processor
IBM Data 360
Nortel files Chapter 11

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January 13,1984: Jack Tramiel resigns from Commodore

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1984 – Two days after the announcement of the 264 and 364 computers, CEO Jack Tramiel resigned from Commodore. There was a lot of battling within the board of directors. 6 months after Tramiel left, he started another company called “Trammel” and hired away a few of the key Commodore employees. The company was one of those that bought – then sold – Atari.

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Carol Bartz accepts the CEO position at Yahoo
Iomega acquires SyQuest
Microsoft SQL Server is announced

Apple/ Day in Tech History

January 12, 1996: Apple’s 68 Million Dollar Loss

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1996 – Apple had been declining in the last few years. With Michael Spindler at the helm and a host of problems with the failed Lisa project, the company had been dealing with loss after loss. The $68 Million first quarter loss was a wake up call for Apple to change guard. On Feb 2nd, Gil Amelio would replace Michael Spindler as CEO, who in turn would bring Steve Jobs back into the mix and ultimately loose that position to the former CEO.

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Sinclair 16/32 bit Quantum Leap
(fictional) Activation of HAL 9000
UNIX is introduced
ICANN opens up registraton for new top-level domains. Registration fee is $185,000

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