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October 3: Captain Kangaroo, Mickey Mouse, Buffalo Wings Debut

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine abc, Bill Gates, buffalo new york, buffalo wings, captain kangaroo, cbs, cia, independent music, mickey mouse, mickey mouse club, music area, passion, patent, Podcast, tech, tech history, this day in tech history, Transistor 0 Comments October 3, 2018

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This is an especially Geeky day, for not only in 1955 was Captain Kangaroo and the Mickey Mouse Club debuting on CBS and ABC, but in 1964 the first Buffalo Wings were made in Buffalo, New York. Hence the name – buffalo wings. There are four different versions of how they came to be. I think we all need to take an evening off and enjoy a beer and wings with your friends.

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Patent for the Transistor
TASCC is opened
Bill Gates on Browsing extensions

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October 2, 1997: Worldcom outbid BT – Wins MCI Communications

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine alignleft, amp, apple, apple ibm, bankruptcy, born, british telecommunications, caption, chase, coup de grace, dollar merger, eyebrow, fi, Germany, gmail, Google, groucho marx, ibm alliance, jellyfish, launch, mci communications, mci worldcom, Microsoft, november 1, tech history, technology history, telecom provider 0 Comments October 2, 2018

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1997– MCI was under a bid to be purchased by British Telecommunications. Worldcom came in and outbid BT to snag up the company. What made this the coup de grace is it would make Worldcom the #2 telecom provider, under AT&T. The $37 Billion dollar merger would finalize on November 10th. Then, September 1998 – MCI Worldcom would officially launch. This all crumbled in 2002 when Worldcom filed for bankruptcy.

I was an employee of Worldcom and had been since its original namesake LDDS. At the time we were awestruck.

–Bill Bartholomew

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for October 1

Happy Eyebrow Day in honor of Groucho Marx. He was born in 1890
Google sued over GMail in Germany
Microsoft Jellyfish
The Apple/IBM alliance

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September 24, 1998: eBay filed IPO

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 3 years, aggregator, auction site, broadcom, compuserve, ebay, inception, IPO, nasdaq, patents, Podcast, technology history, this day in tech history, uss enterprise 0 Comments September 24, 2018

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1998– In 3 years since it’s inception, eBay grew to be a powerful auction site. Therefore, eBay decided to go public. They offered 9 million shares on NASDAQ starting at $18 a share. When all is said and done, they closed the day at $47.375.

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for September 24

Compuserve services start
USS Enterprise launched
Qualcom infringed on Broadcom patents
Myst released

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September 15, 2008: Best Buy Purchased Napster

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, best buy, day in tech history, Google, Microsoft, music downloads, music sharing software, mylo, napster, Podcast, registers, Rhapsody, sony, stake, technology history 0 Comments September 15, 2018

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2008– Napster has been trying to solidify their name since they went legit. They forged the way with music downloads in the 1990’s but struggled after.

Enter Best Buy. They saw the opportunity and laid down $121 Million for the company. Best Buy owned the service until 2011 when Napster merged with Rhapsody. Best Buy still has a minor stake in the music sharing software.

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for September 15

Sony releases Mylo.
Microsoft buys Visio
Google registers Google.com

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September 11, 2001: 911 Day, 2008: TiVO Announce Phone DVR

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 9/11, aggregator, blackberry, day in tech history, dvr, email, emoticons, favorite shows, moment of silence, New York City, Podcast, remembering 9 11, remembering 911 day, research in motion, rim, scott fahlman, september 11, september 11 2001, technology history, terrorist attack, TiVo, twin towers, year anniversary 0 Comments September 11, 2018

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Remembering 9-11 Day

2008 – TiVO and Research in Motion (RIM) announce they will collaborate to give people another option to record their favorite shows. Coming soon, you would be able to set your DVR and review schedules right from your Blackberry device. That way if you forget to set your recorder, you can call up the application and make the change.

It was also the historic day that New York City’s Twin Towers were taken down by a terrorist attack. We at the Day in Tech History commemorate the 10 year anniversary and take a moment of silence in the show to remember those who lost their lives.

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for September 11

Scott Fahlman’s original email on emoticons is found
Operation Cybersnare

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September 10, 1984: First Genetic Fingerprinting Discovered

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, alex jeffreys, day in tech history, death notices, discovery, dna, Fingerprint, gopher protocol, heredity, illnesses, leicester england, person to person, Podcast, technology history 0 Comments September 10, 2018

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1984 – Alex Jeffreys of Leicester, England noticed and deduced that DNA is a unique item from person to person and could possibly be used to identify someone. Hence, Genetic Fingerprinting was born. Alex was originally working on a way to determine heredity of illnesses when he made this discovery.

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The Gopher Protocol
The Segway ban
Arizona takes death notices offline

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September 9,1945: First Computer Bug Revealed

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, calculator, computer, computer system, computer world, day in tech history, devil, first computer bug, first person, grace hopper, hack, harvard mark, looney tunes, moth, mud, NBC, nbc news, playstation, Podcast, script kiddies, september 9, sony, technology history, trs 0 Comments September 9, 2018

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1945 – Grace Hopper is forever immortalized in the computer world as the first person to find a bug in a computer system. Litterally. The bug was a moth in between Relay #70 on Panel “F” of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.From there on end, “Bug” meant a problem in a computer system. I guess once the moth was removed, the word “Debug” was also added.BTW – The relay functioned properly after the moth was removed.

1947 – It sounds like that same relay finally failed 2 years later.

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for September 9

The first TRS-80 is sold
Sony releases the Playstation
9/9/99 (in 1999 that is)
Script Kiddies hack NBC News

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September 8, 2008: Real Launched RealDVD

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, BBS, brianna, controversy, current point, davy jones locker, day in tech history, dvds, hard drive, hotbed, injunction, launches, Podcast, realdvd, realtime updates, riaa sues 261, richard kenadek, technology history, vdns 0 Comments September 8, 2018

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2008 –Real launches a new program that will allow you to put your DVDs and other format movies onto the hard drive. It instantly became a hotbed of controversy as the software raised the question: can you legally copy the data to another media? The battle started in court and at this current point, RealDVD is on an injunction of sales.

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Realtime updates of VDNS
RIAA sues 261 including Brianna LaHara, a 13 yo girl
Richard Kenadek pleads not guilty on Davy Jones Locker BBS

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