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February 20, 1986: Launch of Mir Space Station

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1986 – The first piece of the Mir Space Station is launched. With 6 docking ports and labs for research, the Space Station was expected to push us into the stars. The term “Mir” is Russian for “Peace”.

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Compaq Presario 2100 is introduced
Napster‘s 1 billion dollar bribe to the RIAA
Google found Atlantis?

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February 18, 1979: Sahara Desert Gets Snow

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1979 – for the first and only time in recorded history, it snowed in the Sahara Desert. It was in Southern Algeria and the storm only lasted a half hour. The snow melted off quickly.

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Corel ships WordPerfect Suite for DOS.
JavaScript v 2.0 is released
White House website recovery.gov is launched

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February 16, 1978: First Bulletin Board System (aka CBBS)

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1978 – The first computer bulletin board system was created in Chicago, Illinois by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess. The Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) came together in 30 days, where it was then launched. Even though it was already turned on for testing, today was the day CBBS went into production.

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Inauguration of 911
First known Malware for Mac OS X
Lance Armstrongs’ bike is stolen.

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February 14, 2005: YouTube is Founded

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Happy Valentines Day!

2005 – YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is established by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The website was registered on February 14th, and didn’t officially launch until November 2005. Google bought out YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 Billion. With an upload every 20 minutes and over 1 Billion views a day, YouTube has definitely grown to a video powerhouse.

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Texas Instruments makes the first “micro on a chip”
Lotus Symphony
Nintendo releases the Game Boy Advanced SP

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February 13, 1996: Jugi Tandon Storage (JTS) Merged with Atari

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February 13, 1996: JTS merges with Atari[/caption]

1996 – Atari Corporation announces the merger with Jugi Tandon Storage (JTS). Atari extended a bridge loan of $25 Million so JTS can still build drives. The company would still be known as JTS, but Atari would own 60% of the company.While Atari was sold to Hasbro via THQ, JTS could not emerge from the debts. They ended up filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Feb 28, 1999.

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The Last Peanuts Comic Strip is released one day after Creator Charles Schultz passes
Apollo Computer is formed
Rush Limbaugh gets service call from Steve Jobs

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February 12, 2001: Anna Kournikova Virus Hits Internet

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2001– Jan de Wit – a.k.a. “OnTheFly” sends out an email stating that it is a picture of the famous tennis player. Of course it turned out to be a a Worm that takes down tens of thousands of computers. Most companies will shut off their email to the world just to prevent from getting it. De Wit would then be arrested two days later and sentenced to 150 hours community service.

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Packard Bell employee opens fire
Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 source code is leaked

February 11 - AT&T asks for an injunction against Samsung

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February 11, 2012: Apple Tries to Ban Samsung, JOSS Taken Down

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2012 – Apple began the lawsuits in the US of Samsung made Galaxy Nexus citing patent violations back in April 15, 2011. This would span across the Nexus S, Epic 4G, Galaxy S 4G and Galaxy Tab. A lawsuit that has gone back and forth between the two companies. The patents in question were for data tapping, a Siri search method, a slide-to-unlock patent and a word completion patent. On this day, Apple officially asks for a preliminary injunction for Samsung sales in the US .

1966 – The Johnniac Open Shop System (JOSS) was taken down by the RAND Corporation. JOSS was set up to relive bottlenecks in programming batches, but more and newer work pretty much took the JOSS to the limit and ultimately became a bottleneck. Therefore, JOSS was taken offline indefinitely.JOSS began operation in 1953.

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Digital Computers discontinues the Rainbow
CRUX Linux 0.5.3 Released
Starbucks announces they will switch from T-Mobile to AT&T at their stores.

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February 9, 1977: Atari – My First Computer Keyboard

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1977 – The “My First Computer” was an add-on to the Atari 2600. This device would turn the game console into a full computer. For $90 you could get 8K of RAM (expandable to 32K), 16K ROM and 8K BASIC.

The My First Computer was to tap into the Video Console System (VCS) in which over 10 million have been sold. The keyboard would attach to the top of the console – using the cartridge slot. The rubber chicklet keypad would allow you to type using the QWERTY style.