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January 28, 1999: Yahoo Aquired GeoCities

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First started as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI) GeoCities was one of the largest online user-created communities. At it’s height, GeoCities was the third-most visited website. Pages built by users to slice their piece of the Word Wide Web Pie.

Yahoo! saw this as a great addition to their web so on January 28, 1999 Yahoo! announced they were purchasing GeoCities for $3.6 billion dollars and $1 billion in stock options. Because of this news, GeoCities stock jumped up 42.25 points to $117/share. Yahoo! jumped up 31 points to $367/share.

GeoCities was closed by Yahoo! on October 26, 2009

Fun Fact: GeoCities still exists – in Japan.

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Tim McVey Day
Radio Shack chooses Compaq over IBM
Ann Marie Linscott uses Craigslist to hire a hitman

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January 25, 2003: DDOS – SQL Slammer Worm

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, Anti-Virus, buffer overflow bug, cto, database products, day in tech history, ddos, denial of service attack, desktop engine, engine database, iTunes, Java, Jini, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server, network architecture, Podcast, RSS, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Slammer, sql slammer worm, sun java, technology history, virus 0 Comments January 25, 2014

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2003 – 5:30 AM. SQL Slammer worm caused a DDOS, infecting 75,000 within ten minutes. Christopher J. Rouland, the CTO of ISS, named it Slammer. The worm exploited a buffer overflow bug in Microsoft‘s SQL Server and Desktop Engine database products.

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Version 2.2 of Linux
Jini Network Architecture
Judge reinstates how Microsoft can incorporate Sun Java

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January 24, 1996: RemoteAccess BBS Released to Public

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine andrew milner, Android, BBS, bbs software, beta team, blackberry, bulletin board system, clones, crude version, day in tech history, electronic calculator, fidonet, file database, ford motor company, gary mckinnon, internet protocol, iPhone, iTunes, jam message, jan 24, january 24, joaquim homrighausen, judicial review, microwave oven, mozy, multitasking, online forums, palm, party utilities, Podcast, protocol systems, ra, radio, Remote access, remoteaccess, stitcher, sync, technology history, tobias burchhardt 0 Comments January 24, 2014

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RemoteAccess BBS is a DOS Bulletin Board System. It’s software was written by Andrew Milner. RemoteAccess was released as shareware and did a crude version of Multitasking.

The final version of RA was released in 1996 (with a Y2K fix in 2000). At that time BBS were being switched to Internet protocol systems like online forums.

1994 – Apple released the Macintosh computer. Marketed as Mac, Steve Jobs brought it in with an Amazing Superbowl commercial behind it. The Macintosh 128K brought the graphical user interface and mouse into home and business computing.

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IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) a.k.a “the Poppa” is dedicated
Microwave Oven is patented
Gary McKinnon won right to judicial review
Apple introduces a floppy drive for the Lisa computer

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January 23, 1983: TV Series A-Team Debuts

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, Android, apple, Bandai, blackberry, commando unit, crack, day in tech history, Geek, integrated circuit, iPhone, iTunes, Los Angeles, macintosh, macintosh office, maximum security stockade, merger, military court, NBC, palm, Podcast, radio, RSS, SEGA, soldiers of fortune, sony, sony pocketstation, stitcher, sync, technology history, tv series, twitter 0 Comments January 23, 2014

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1983 – In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.If you have a problem…

if no one else can help…

and if you can find them…

maybe you can hire…

The A- Team

NBC ran the A-Team from January 23, 1983 to March 8, 1987. The movie came out June 11, 2010.

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Sega and Bandai announce a merger
Apple releases Macintosh Office
The integrated circuit is conceived

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January 21, 2000: Kevin Mitnick Uses the Internet

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 3 years, aggregator, AOL, chase, day in tech history, fbi, Federal Bureau of Investigation, historical events, IBM, inj, injunction, intel, iTunes, jan 21, kevin mitnick, Microsoft, motorola, personal library software, Podcast, prision, probation, processors, prohibition, RSS, serial numbers, software intel, sun microsystems, technology history 0 Comments January 21, 2014

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2000 – Kevin Mitnick, who was imprisoned for 5 Years in hacking IBM, Motorola and DEC; then a big chase with the FBI, was released from prision. He was still ordered to not log onto a computer.2003 – Kevin Mitnick finally logs back onto the Internet after the 3 year probation. He fought the prohibition from the Internet and got it reduced to 3 years. No word as to where he went on his first login.

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AOL acquires Personal Library Software
Intel stamping serial numbers on processors
Microsoft’s Injunction to package Java from Sun Microsystems.

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January 18, 1990: Chicago Raid of PHRACK, Knight Lightning

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 9/11, aggregator, bellsouth, Chicago, Clients, craig, day in tech history, Feed Readers, girls, hacker, hard drive, history, iTunes, knight lightning, Meteorology, Microsoft, MySpace, newscorp, office administration, patent infringement, phrack, Podcast, RSS, Stac Electronics, Tampa Bay Lightning, technology history, trs, twitter, warrant, Weather Phenomena, www 0 Comments January 18, 2014

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1990 – The Chicago Task raids the home of Craig Neidorf – A.K.A. Knight Lightning. The group, along with Bellsouth, are looking for information on an article published in the hacker rag “PHRACK – Control Office Administration of Enhanced 911 Service”. The article was written by “the Eavesdropper” and contained information that was obtained by documents stolen from Bellsouth.

The group doesn’t have a warrant, but when they show up the next day with one, Neidorf’s hard drive comes up missing. Craig will then be arrested for tampering.

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Stac Electronics sues Microsoft for Patent infringement
TRS 80 Model 12 is introduced
NewsCorp and MySpace are sued because 4 girls are sexually assulted

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January 16, 2009: Circuit City to Go out of Business

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, blockbuster, borland, burger king, circuit city, circuit city going out of business, Circuit City Stores, comp usa, CompUSA, day in tech history, Facebook, friend promotion, going out of business, herrings, historical events, iTunes, lotus, mozy, Podcast, renegade bbs, RSS, spence, stitcher, technology history, twitter, web assets 0 Comments January 16, 2014

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2009 – You can be #2, and still not be doing all that great. This was the case for Circuit City. A failed buyout opportunity from Blockbuster and they were at the same point as CompUSA a couple years prior. Therefore, officials announced they will be closing the remaining stores and selling all assets.Ironically enough, Circuit City’s website assets were acquired by SystemMax – the same company that holds Comp USA’s web assets.

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Burger King De-Friend promotion on Facebook
Patrick Spence hands the Renegade BBS to Jeff Herrings
Lotus v. Borland

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January 15, 1968: Ralph Baer Patents First Video Game

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, Coveritlive, day in tech history, game age, game system, intel, inventor, iTunes, mozy, national medal of technology, patent, patents, pioneer, Podcast, ralph baer, Ralph H. Baer, RSS, steve jobs, technology history, tv game, twitter, video game, wikipedia 0 Comments January 15, 2014

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1968 – Ralph Baer applies for a patent on a TV game system he designed. This, of course, sparks the Video Game age and Ralph becomes the inventor and Pioneer of the field. In 2006, he was honored with a National Medal of Technology for the advancement.

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Intel acquires Xircom
Wikipedia is launched
Coveritlive and Twitter goes down for Steve Jobs Keynote

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