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January 2, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen BASIC for MITS

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1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a letter to the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS) stating they have BASIC language for the Intel 8080 processor and would like to incorporate on the Altair computer in exchange for royalty payments. MITS agrees and Micro-soft was born. Later it would become Microsoft.

Coleco sells Adam
Intel recalls 1.3 GHz chips
EMC purchases SourceLabs

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January 1, 1994: Happy Anniversary Bill and Melinda Gates

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 0101, aggregator, arpanet, bill and melinda, bill and melinda gates, bill and melinda gates foundation, business call, conversion, day in tech history, dod, Gates family, happy new year, internet protocol, january 1, kermit project, Melinda Gates, mozy, mozypro, network control protocol, Networking Resources, new decade, new year, Podcast, protocol internet, Protocols, secretary of defense, switches, TCP, tcp ip, technology history, transistion, transition, transmission control protocol, Transmission Protocols, twitter, walmart, wedding anniversary 0 Comments January 1, 2020

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Happy New Year!

1994 – It was a 6 year office romance that ended in marriage. Best part – where we hear marriages dissolve, this one has continued on for over 20 years. So we wish Bill and Melinda (French) Gates a happy and joyous wedding anniversary.

Since then the couple has been active in world poverty and education of children with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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ARPANET ditches TCP-IP
The Kermit project begins
DOD and Walmart implement RFID tags

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December 31: Technology Roundup

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On this day, we basically crunch numbers. This is where you will see companies let you know how much of their products are out there. How many copies of Windows have been sold, how many PC‘s were bought – how much shareware has been downloaded. These stats will drive how the next year is to be written. Then, they blank the numbers and start the crazy cycle all over again.The majority of the podcast will go over these statistics. But don’t worry – there is still a lot of other history to go through. But it’s still cool to know that in 1981, 250 million floppy disk drives were shipped to date…

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CROMEMCO is incorporated
AT&T Bell is broken up
The Last Calvin and Hobbes strip

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December 29, 2004: Commodore Acquired

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1229, aggregator, commodore, commodore computers, day in tech history, december 29, dutch manufacturer, Google, historical events, history, hydlide, iTunes, jamie thomas, media ventures, mozy, patents, Podcast, radio day, recording industry association of america, RIAA, RSS, stitcher, technology history, thomas edison, thomas thomas, tulip, twitter, wireless radio 0 Comments December 28, 2019

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2004 – Once Commodore dropped from the market in the 80’s, it pretty much started bouncing around the world from company to company. Ultimately it landed in the lap of KMOS – a Deleware company. However, on this day, Dutch Manufacturer Tulip sells the company to Yeahronimo Media Ventures for about US$32.7 million.

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Virtual Hydlide
Thomas Edison patents wireless radio

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December 28, 1995: 200 Sites Blocked by Compuserve

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1228, aggregator, beta, compuserve, day in tech history, explicit content, german government, historical events, IBM, iTunes, Linux, mozy, nintendo wii, Podcast, RSS, stitcher, technology history, transit system, twitter, wii 0 Comments December 27, 2019

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1995 – Compuserve blocks access to over 200 sites that have explicit content. They do it to avoid issue with the German Government. The sites would be blocked until Feb 13, 1996 when all but 5 sites were restored.

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IBM 1420 Bank Transit System is released
Windows 7 Beta 1
Nintendo Wii runs Linux

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December 26, 2007: Apple Hits $200 a share

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1226, aggregator, aitp, apple, ceo, day in tech history, egroups, fox, historical events, iTunes, klien, mozy, plane accident, Podcast, RSS, stitcher, stocks, Stuart Webb, technology history, twitter 0 Comments December 25, 2019

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2007 – With iTunes just signing a deal with FOX and their content for iTunes, stocks pushed upward to $200 a share. It was the first time Apple hit that barrier, and promptly dropped after. The company has been up and down, and in mid-2008 were at only $90 a share. However, after March 6th, 2008, the stock started to rise to the $400 / Share mark. Since then Apple climbed up to $700/share and then on June 9th, 2014 the stock was split 7-to-1. Currently, the stock is at $111 (technically $777 for those who purchased before the split).

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The National Machine Accountants Association is founded (later becomes AITP)
FM radio is patented

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December 25, 1998: Official Y2K Compliance

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1998 – during the last couple years of the 20th century, the race was on to fix an oversight in multiple computer systems. The problem was dubbed “Y2K” or the Millennium bug. Bottom line was that all computers worked on a 2 digit year system instead of 4. Because of this, once the clock rolled, computers would think it’s 1900 instead of 2000 and bigger issues would happen.For instance, if you were born in 1968, then you would be -68 years old in a computer calculating your birth date. If you had a bill due of $1,000 since 1998, then you might find yourself with a reverse interest, in turn causing financial institutions to go into turmoil.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton made a statement that the Social Security payment system was officially Y2K compliant.

By the way: Most people resolved the problem by not programming in a 4 digit year, but by shifting the thinking of the 2 digit year. Therefore, in 2012 (which some shifted to), they will have these issues all over again.

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Merry Christmas
Nintendo Wii with Linux installed
Compuserve blocks 200 sexually explicit sites
Netscape announces the AOL browser will be discontinued

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December 24: Watch out for Werewolves

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An interesting fact: Russian folklore believed that December 24th was the day people could be turned into Werewolves. Any child that is born on December 24th would be considered a werewolf. There are many ways to detect a werewolf – bristles under the tongue was one way to check.

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Fox-Linux 1.0 Released
Verizon awarded $33 million against Cybersquatters

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