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December 24: Watch out for Werewolves

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, bristles, christmas, christmas eve, cybersquatters, day in tech history, dec 24, december 24th, Fabulous Creatures, Folklore, fox, interesting fact, Linux, linux day, Literature, Podcast, russian folklore, stitcher, Tales, technology history, tongue, twitter, Vampire, Verizon, Werewolf, Werewolves 0 Comments December 23, 2018

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An interesting fact: Russian folklore believed that December 24th was the day people could be turned into Werewolves. Any child that is born on December 24th would be considered a werewolf. There are many ways to detect a werewolf – bristles under the tongue was one way to check.

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Fox-Linux 1.0 Released
Verizon awarded $33 million against Cybersquatters

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December 23, 2008: Santa Claus via Google Earth

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, Benjamin Franklin, Companies, day in tech history, earth, Geek, Google, Google Earth, IPO, Orient Express, Podcast, religion, Santa Claus, Search Engines, Searching, spyglass, st nicholas, stitcher, technology history, turkey, university of illinois 0 Comments December 22, 2018

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2008 – Santa Claus is spotted on Google Earth. Of course the story of St. Nicholas is an interesting one that doesn’t really involve religion. But now we know where he resides, thanks to Google! Of course, watching Santa’s route is big for children, who know they should be going to sleep before he gets there. Otherwise, coal will be in their stockings…

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Priceline.com IPO
Netscape, Spyglass and the University of Illinois
Benjamin Franklin Shocked a Turkey

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December 19, 1974: Do it Yourself Altair Kit

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, altair, altair 8800, Altair BASIC, Bill Gates, computer, home computer setup, micro instrumentation and telemetry systems, Microsoft, MITS, patents, popular mechanics magazine, RIAA, samuel clemens, stitcher, suspenders, switches, technology history, Telemetry Systems, turning point 0 Comments December 18, 2018

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1974 – Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) puts out the first ever “Do it yourself” Altair 8800. You would get it through Popular Mechanics Magazine, then assemble it yourself. This is a turning point in home computer setup. The price for an Altair 8800 kit – $397 – and it included Microsoft Altair BASIC.

DirectX 9 is released
RIAA switches from suing users to ISP
Samuel Clemens patents suspenders

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December 17, 1989: First Simpsons Episode

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, auction yahoo, Blognation, day in tech history, december 17, episode airs, fox, Fox Broadcasting Company, fox tv network, historical events, hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, longest running sitcoms, Podcast, prime time, purebasic, Sam Sethi, sethi, Simpson, technology history, time spot, Tracy Ullman Show, walk of fame, Yahoo 0 Comments December 16, 2018

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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.

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

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, albert vezza, cambridge massachusetts, day in tech history, delta, edward r murrow, first meeting, flights, historical events, IBM, institute of technology, massachusetts institute of technology, massachusetts institute of technology mit, Microsoft, microsoft releases windows, MIT, Podcast, technology history, tim berners lee, twitter, validation efforts, w3c, whirlwind computer, wide web consortium, world wide web, world wide web consortium 0 Comments December 13, 2018

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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 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

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, Air France, anthony wedgwood benn, beta, British Aircraft Corporation, british technology, concorde, concorde jet, credit+cards, day in tech history, first flight, France, free button, Google, Google Chrome, historical events, luther king jr, martin luther king, martin luther king jr, minister anthony, Podcast, prototype, science and technology, supersonic airliner, technology history, technology minister, twitter, United States, wedgwood 0 Comments December 10, 2018

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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

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aerospace corporation, aggregator, creatures, day in tech history, Doom, doom bible, end result, first person shooter, historical events, IBM, japan yahoo, job, monsters, Online Communities, Podcast, severance package, shareware copy, Social Networking, technology history, teleportation device, twitter, Union Aerospace Corporation, university of wisconsin, xbox, xbox 360, Yahoo 0 Comments December 9, 2018

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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

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, day in tech history, del icio us, DVD, dvd jon, Geek, Jon, jon lech johansen, Los Angeles, Microsoft, microsoft launches windows, pioneer, Plea, Podcast, reverse engineering, RSS, technology history, twitter, Yahoo 0 Comments December 8, 2018

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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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