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May 1, 2011: Twitter Breaks Bin Laden Death, 1964: First BASIC Program Written

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2011 – The first tweets on the raid came from Sohaib Athar, a.k.a. @ReallyVirtual. At the time he didn’t know what he was tweeting about, just there was a helicopter hovering over Abbottabad at 1AM. Shortly after, Twitter went a buzz because inside that bunker was Osama Bin Laden. However, it was determined the first tweet actually came from @keithurbahn (aka Keith Urbahn, Chief of Staff for Donald Rumsfeld).

So I’m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn.

— Keith Urbahn (@keithurbahn) May 2, 2011

This caused Twitter to explode and soon after, 14.8 million tweets were posted even before President Obama could take the podium to address the nation.

1964– John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz run the first BASIC program at 4 AM in Darthmouth. The duo used a General Electric 225 mainframe computer and ran a simple compiler program.

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AMD is founded
Tamagotchi is released in the US
Lenovo takes over IBM desktop and notebook divisions for $655 million in cash and $600 million in stock.

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March 31, 1993: Term “Spam” Coined

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1993 – There is a bug in the Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation (ARMM) program on a Usenet. It ends out sending 200 copies of a message to news.admin.policy. Joel Furr, a user of the newsgroup, says this is “Spam”. Hence, the term “Spam” is coined.

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Construction of Harvard Mark I
Atari gets a Cease and Desist letter in manufacturing Tetris.
Microsoft Bob for Windows is released

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March 30, 1951: UNIVAC I – First American Commercial Computer

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1951 – John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert unveil the first commercial computer, the UNIVersal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC I). The computer was manufactured under the company name of Sperry Rand Corporation for the United States Census Bureau. The UNIVAC will remain in operation through 1963.Univac I was not only the first American commercial computer, but also the first computer designed to computer large numbers. The first contracts for these computers were government agencies, like the Census Bureau and US Air Force. It took almost a year to finally ship the first Univac computer.

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Quantum sells to Maxtor
Intel launches Nehalem
Microsoft ends Encarta

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March 29, 1983: Radio Shack Introduces TRS-80 Model 100

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1983– Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 Model 100. It is the first portable computer featuring a 2.4 MHz processor for $799. The portable machine weighed 3.9 lbs.The model-100 was first made and sold as the Kyotronic 85. Tandy Corporation took this small computer over, and sold through Radio Shack.Over 6,000,000 units were sold worldwide.

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Melissa macro virus was first reported
Netfinity A-100 appliance server
Skype for iPhone

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March 28, 2000: BeOS Version 5 Maui Launched

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2000 – BeOS version 5 was launched. Code named “Maui”, this OS is often cloned for the GUI desktop for GNOME. BeOS went to ver. 5.1 before it was acquired by Palm. There is an Open Source version called “Haiku”.

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Kodak releases the DC40 camera
Yahoo launches Yahoo! Photos
Windows XP 64 is released

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March 27, 1996: Link Exchange is Created

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March 27, 1996: Link Exchange is created

1996– Tony Hsieh and Sanjay Madin found themselves in a very exciting spot. As the web was starting to grow, they put together a business plan for a powerful advertising cooperative. The result – LinkExchange was born. Of course, LinkExchange was then bought out by Microsoft for $265 million and the rest is history.

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TorrentSpy Shuts down
120 MHz Pentium Processor is released
Microsoft Excel 4.0 is released

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March 25, 2004: Comcast G4 Acquired TechTV

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2004 – I remember watching TechTV from the ZDNet Days. Even watched a live show back in the days when Spring Comdex was in Chicago. When it changed to TechTV, we got some great social tech pioneers like Leo Laporte, Kevin Norton, Chris Pirillo and Kevin Rose, among others. When Comcast purchased the channel, they merged it with their own channel – G4. By May, G4 Tech TV was running in full force. Ultimately the name got changed to G4 and the pioneer shows like Call for Help and Screen Savers were ended.

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AOL and eBay cross marketing agreement
Excel 4.0 is released
The first Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference

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March 21, 1994: Novell Acquires Corel WordPerfect, Quattro Pro

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March 21, 1994: Novell purchases Quattro Pro and WordPerfect

1994– Novell purchases Quattro Pro (spreadsheet program) and WordPerfect (Word document editor) for $145 million. However, the company ended up selling both software programs to Corel in 1996. Corel continues to update and sell WordPerfect Office x6 – with Quattro Pro in the Professional edition.

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The first Twitter post – Just setting up my twttr
Hfury
Apple TV begins Shipping

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