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March 18, 2002: First sponsored top-level Domain .AERO Begins Registration

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aeronautics, aggregator, airports, apple, apple store, aviation, day, day in tech history, derivative, first resolution, Geek, IBM, initial trial, iTunes, los angeles airport, mozy, Podcast, RSS, satan, security tool, stitcher, store march, technology history, top level domain, twitter 0 Comments March 18, 2016

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2002– The .aero domain, or domain on aviation, begins registering. The first resolution of the .aero domain would happen on Sept 2nd. Of course, aero is a derivative of Aeronautics and is the first sponsored top-level domain. Three letter codes were airports (example: LAX.aero = Los Angeles airport). The initial trial of .aero was under a 5 year contract that continued to extended until 2019.

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CRT iMac is removed from Apple Store
SATAN Security tool released

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March 14, 1988: Rick Rolled – Never Gonna Give You Up hits Number 1

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine Android, apple, beast, blackberry, celebration, computer market, day in tech history, europe, ford motor company, historical events, internet fame, iPhone, iTunes, macintosh, Microsoft, national pi day, nec, number 1, PI Day, Podcast, power macintosh computer, rebirth, Rick, rick astley, RickRoll, RSS, sync, technology history, twitter, xbox 0 Comments March 14, 2016

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Happy National Pi Day – The celebration of 3.14

1988 – It’s the song that found it’s rebirth and the term “Rick Rolled” became a urban saying. Of course, we are talking about Rick Astley and the song: Never Gonna Give You Up. It hit #1 on the charts. Of course, it’s internet fame has turned this into a whole new beast.

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Microsoft releases XBox in Europe
NEC announces they will be getting into the computer market
Apple releases the Power Macintosh computer

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March 12, 1986: First CeBit Conference

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, AOL, asia australia, cebit, cebit conference, centrum, Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik, chip technology, day in tech history, Geek, Hanover, hanover fair, hanover germany, hulu, important conference, information technology, launches, Office, open source, Podcast, technology history, televisions, turkey, United States 0 Comments March 12, 2016

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1986– It’s full name is Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik (Centre of Office and Information technology). CeBit actually was started in the 70’s with the Hanover fair. However, the two separated in 1986 when it was decided that together, the two were not doing too well. Since then, CeBit has grown to be a very important conference for all IT.CeBit expanded in 1999, and the sponsor brought the show to Asia, Australia, Turkey, and the US. CeBit runs 5 days in Hanover, Germany.

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V-Chip technology becomes mandatory in televisions
AOL buys Bebo
2007 – Hulu launches in the US

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March 9, 1993: PowerOpen Environment

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, apple, apple ibm, day in tech history, domain name, Facebook, group sponsor, historical events, IBM, iTunes, Mark Zuckerberg, million, millionth, motorola, newscorp, Podcast, poweropen association, poweropen environment, powerpc platforms, RSS, sarah lacy, sxsw, technology history, today in technology history, twitter, unix, Yahoo 0 Comments March 9, 2016

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1993 – The PowerOpen Association is formed to conform to the PowerOpen environment, which is an open standard for running forms of Unix on PowerPC platforms. Apple, IBM, Motorola are all in on this group.

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IBM 2260
Four-millionth domain name
Newscorp says no to counter offer on Yahoo
2008 – Sarah Lacy’s SXSW interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

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March 7, 1933: Monopoly Game First Created

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine Android, atlantic city, Atlantic City New Jersey, blackberry, Board game, board games, bratz, charles darrow, day in tech history, game monopoly, historical events, household name, iPhone, iTunes, landlord, magie, monopoly, monopoly board, monopoly game, nasa, parker brothers, playstation 2, Podcast, revisions, RSS, star wars monopoly, technology history, thun, twitter, unofficial rules, wittman 0 Comments March 7, 2016

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1933– Charles Darrow creates the game Monopoly, with designers Elizabeth Magie, Louis Thun, and Fred Thun. There were a few other board games before Monopoly, like “The Landlord game“, which Monopoly was loosely derived from. The board is based on Atlantic City and the playing pieces were models from items around Charles Darrow’s’ house. Parker Brothers would pick the game up in 1935 and turn it into a household name.Since then, multiple variations of the board game have been introduced. Everything from Star Wars Monopoly to Bratz Jr Monopoly game. The game has gone through many revisions, and some families have made “unofficial rules” – such as what happens when you land on Free Parking.

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Richard Wittman Jr. admits breaking into NASA
Sony announces release of Linux development kit for Playstation 2
Intel gives computers, internet to employees for free.

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March 6, 1950: Silly Putty Introduced to Public

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine Adhesive, aggregator, apple, attributes, dirt, Food coloring, goo, hewlett packard, historical events, history, interesting facts, james wright, michelangelo virus, Microsoft, Newton, newton protest, pet hair, peter hodgson, plastic egg, polymer, protest march, silly putty, thinking putty, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War II 0 Comments March 6, 2016

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1950– Silly Putty – the stretchable goo that picks up print off a newspaper – is introduced. Peter Hodgson first introduced James Wright’s idea by packaging one ounces into a plastic egg. Interesting facts about Silly Putty – It has some adhesive attributes, which can make it a great way to pick up dirt and pet hair. Silly Putty bounces like a ball and will break when given a sharp blow. Silly Putty is also known as Thinking Putty and is made of Silocone Polymer. It was originally created to be a rubber substitute for use in World War II.

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Apple vs. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
The Michelangelo Virus
The Bring Newton Back Protest

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March 5, 1975: Homebrew Computer Club is Established

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1975 – Gordon French and Fred Moore put together the first Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, CA. The group was put together to discuss the Altair home kit, as well as talk about building computers in general. Of course, the most important meeting was Steve Wozniak who brought the first Apple computer, meeting Steve Jobs.

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WMS Industries acquires Atari
President Barak Obama appoints Vivek Kundra as CTO

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July 13, 1923: HollywoodLand Sign is Dedicated

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine blogging, bob geldof, day in tech history, DVD, hollywood, John F. Kennedy Stadium, live aid, London, Microsoft, Midge Ure, netflix, philadelphia, Podcast, Qwikster, RSS, technology history, United States, wembly stadium 0 Comments July 13, 2015

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1923 – HollywoodLand Sign is dedicated to the people in Los Angeles CA. The sign was shortened to Hollywood where it stands overlooking LA.

2011 – CEO Reed Hastings announced a bombshell that, in turn, brought on Netflix’s single worst year ever. He announced that they were splitting Netflix streaming from DVD rentals. With that, the price would be doubled – $8 for 2 DVD rental plan and $8 for streaming. If you were an existing customer, you would be grandfathered in until September. This news caused their stock to fall, which continued when Hastings announced the DVD division was to be rebranded as Qwikster, and sold (which, of course, didn’t happen).

1985: Live Aid was first held. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine releif. Over 175,000 people attended what was called the global jukebox. The concert was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was one of the first and largest shows broadcast on satellite in 1985.

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Microsoft is found to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act
Staten Island girl falls into a manhole after IMing on her phone

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