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December 17, 1989: First Simpsons Episode

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1989 – The first full episode of the Simpsons airs on FOX TV network. 21 years and 1 movie later, the show still continues on strong. The cast stayed pretty much the same since 89. The Simpsons started on FOX as an animated short on the Tracy Ullman Show. It was on that show for 3 seasons when it was moved to their own prime time spot. The Simpsons is one of the longest running sitcoms and even has their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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PureBasic v.2.0 is released
Sam Sethi puts Blognation up for auction
Yahoo shuts down Jumpcut

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December 14, 1994: W3C Held First Meeting

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1994 – The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) held its first meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Albert Vezza and <a class="zem_slink" title="Tim Berners-Lee” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee” rel=”wikipedia”>Tim Berners-Lee founded the group to development and maintain international standards for the World Wide Web. Since then, the W3C has overseen the validation efforts in HTML and other formats.

Delta rolls out WiFi on flights
Microsoft releases Windows NT 4.0 SP2
Edward R. Murrow features the Whirlwind computer on See It Now

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December 11, 1967: The Concorde Supersonic Airliner

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1967 – The Concorde was a British and French venture. It wa the first supersonic airliner. The prototype (Concorde 001) was rolled out to 1100 present. British technology minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn coined it Concorde on that day. The last “e” would stand for excellence. The first flight would not happen until March 1969.

creditcards.com hacked
Google Chrome (Windows) exits Beta
Martin Luther King Jr. lectures on science and technology

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December 10, 1993: DOOM Released Unofficially

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1993 – 20 years ago, a Shareware copy was uploaded through a server at the University of Wisconsin (and although I was going to school there at the time, it wasn’t me – HONEST). The end result was the beginning of the first-person shooter. For those who do not want to read the Doom Bible, the story is about a Marine who assaults a senior officer, therefore was incarcerated on Mars at the Union Aerospace Corporation. His job was to overlook the teleportation device.However, the device goes haywire and a whole bunch of creatures come out of the portal. The player is told to secure until help arrives. Unfortunately, that means heading through the establishment and defending from the monsters that attack.

XBOX 360 hits Japan
Yahoo lays off 1,500 with a controversial severance package
IBM 7320 drum

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December 9, 2002: Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) Trial

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2002 – The trial of Jon Lech Johansen, better known as “DVD Jon,” begins with Johansen pleading not guilty. DVD Jon has been a pioneer in “Reverse engineering”. O.K, so that is a fancy way of saying “Pirating”, but without his efforts, advances might not have been made. He was acquitted on January 7, 2003.

Yahoo acquires del.icio.us (delicious.com)
Microsoft launches Windows 2.01 and Oxite
Bandai releases WonderSwan

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December 6th, 1768: Encyclopedia Britannica Published

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1768 – Encyclopedia Britannica began publishing the first print – otherwise known as “part I”. It was the brain child of Colin Macfarquhar, and Andrew Bell, and was a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot. The first volume would be completed Edinburgh, Scotland by 1771. The 3rd edition would become popular and also expand for the first time. Since then, the Britannica would be digitized and put on CD, then DVD format. Today’s current version has 400 editors and 1,000 contributors. The Encyclopedia also saw several pirate copies during it’s 242 year run.The Encyclopedia would move to the US in 1901. Today, Britannica is produced as a digital version.

IBM 2420
Playstation sells 300,000
Apple Shares fall
Opera v.5 is released
.XXX goes online

Richard Wexelblat - History of Programming Languages

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December 5, 1965: First Computer Science Degree: Richard Wexelblat

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1965 – Richard Wexelblat was the first candidate to complete his doctoral dissertation, hence giving him a degree in “Computer Science“. It was presented at the University of Pennsylvania – Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Richard went on to write the “History of Programming Languages” (ISBN:0-12-745040-8)

Today is the official birth of the Transistor
Amazon Crashes
HD Support for YouTube

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November 29, 1972: First Pong Machine

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1972 – Andy Cappa’s tavern in CA was the site for the first Pong game was wheeled into the establishment. The coin-operated game was put in by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell and game designer Al Alcorn. The duo decided that making their own game – rather than having 3rd parties do it – would help keep costs down. They then turned an old Roller rink and converted to a production line. Pong was the first successful video game system.

Microsoft is first mentioned in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen
Mercury-Atlas 5 carries the first chimpanzee into space
Microsoft starts talking to Yahoo again – this time on a search deal
Happy Birthday Leo Laporte

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