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December 20, 1996: Apple Buys NeXT

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Apple Acquires NeXT

1996 – Steve Jobs started Apple. When he left Apple, he started NeXT. When Apple started to fall, Steve Jobs came back. Of course, having 2 computer companies is not a good idea – So why not buy it out?That is what Apple did. In a $400 Million deal, they got a new OS and Steve Jobs. Of course, Jobs did not become CEO of Apple again – he reported to current CEO Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio.

NeXTstep OS would ultimately become Mac OS X.

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  • IBM 7040 and 7044 released
  • CIS wins $1 Billion from Spammers
  • Warner pulls music from YouTube
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December 16, 1994: Large Hadron Collider Approved

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1994 – Although its only been in mainstream news for a couple years, the Large Hadron Collider has actually been around for many years now. On this day, for example, <a class="zem_slink" title="CERN” href=”http://www.CERN.ch” rel=”homepage”>CERN receives not only approval, but also the funding to build this massive device. Because of this, CERN hands the WebCore project to the French organization INRIA (the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique.)

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  • Kevin Mitnick charged with stealing $1 million from DEC
  • The Transistor is first demonstrated to a small audience
  • The Pepper Pad is released
  • Steve Jobs and Apple back out of <a class="zem_slink" title="MacWorld” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWorld” rel=”wikipedia”>MacWorld
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December 12: Apple Initial Public Offering

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1980 – Apple Computer goes up for their Initial Public Offering and makes a statement in the market. Using the symbol “<a class="zem_slink" title="NASDAQ: AAPL” href=”http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL” rel=”googlefinance”>AAPL“, Apple shares started at $22 – but sell out within minutes. By the end of the day, shares rose to $29. The market value became 1.8 Billion, which, in turn, made employees and investors pretty rich – Steve Jobs reports $217 Million, being the largest shareholder. It beat out Ford Motor when it went IPOV (IPO Viral).

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  • OSCAR I goes into orbit
  • Christopher Cockerell patents the Hovercraft
  • <a class="zem_slink" title="FidoNet” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet” rel=”wikipedia”>FidoNet #1 Hard drive failure
  • Gawker.com is hacked and full email, password information was up on the Pirate Bay
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December 6th, 1768: Encyclopedia Britannica Published

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1768 – Encyclopedia Britannica began publishing the first print – otherwise known as “part I”. It was the brain child of  Colin Macfarquhar, and Andrew Bell, and was a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot. The first volume would be completed Edinburgh, Scotland by 1771. The 3rd edition would become popular and also expand for the first time. Since then, the Britannica would be digitized and put on CD, then DVD format. Today’s current version has 400 editors and 1,000 contributors. The Encyclopedia also saw several pirate copies during it’s 242 year run.The Encyclopedia would move to the US in 1901. Today, Britannica is produced as a digital version.

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  • IBM 2420
  • Playstation sells 300,000
  • Apple Shares fall
  • Opera v.5 is released
  • .XXX goes online
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December 3, 1981: Disbanding of IBM Data Processing Division

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1981 – For many years, whenever something came out, it was “IBM’s Data Processing Division releases”… Well, on Dec 3rd 1981, IBM decided and announced that the Data Processing Division was going to be absorbed into the IBM National Accounts Division (NAD), and the National Marketing Division. The 2 divisions would then become part of the Information SystemsGroup. This would be effective January 1982.

The Data Processing Division was launched in 1956. IBM DPD had launched many 370 mainframe systems, as well as the 7090 – which we talk about it’s release on Dec 3rd 1968. For more information, see IBM on the IBM Data Pprocessing Division.

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December 2, 1991: Apple Quicktime

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1991 – What was first a Multimedia add-on for System 6, Quicktime has spent 21 years being Apples’ proprietary player. The original version contained graphics, animation and Video codecs – What was refered to as “Road Pizza”. Since then Quicktime had developed on both Mac and Windows sides (starting in 1992). The current version is called Quicktime X but there are signs the technology is either moving a new direction or possibly retired.

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  • The Virginia Internet Policy Act
  • AT&T pulls pay phones
  • Digg.com was not for sale
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November 18, 1985: Calvin and Hobbes

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1894 – The first Sunday Comics section is printed by the New York World.

1985 – 91 years later, Bill Watterson syndicates a comic about a boy and his stuffed Tiger. Calvin and Hobbes will bring laughter to millions for the next ten years. It reached through 2,400 newspapers (at it’s height) and spun off 18 books. Bill Watterson ended the comic on December 31st, 1995 and has left it retired since.

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  • A court says Microsoft is free to market BASIC
  • International Cryptography Framework (ICF).
  • DivX sues Yahoo over Google-Yahoo deal
  • Macy’s Department Store launches largest Internet shopping website to date.
  • Psystar loses their anti-trust case against Apple
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November 17, 2008: Jerry Yang Steps down as Yahoo! CEO

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2008 – After battle upon battle between Microsoft, Google and shareholders (including Carl Icahn), Jerry Yang finally announced to all he was stepping down as CEO of Yahoo! The previous days, Steve Ballmer said they are not going forward with any future purchase of Yahoo! Because of this, stock hit it’s lowest share price, $8. That, the failed Google affiliation (due to antitrust issues), and a very despondent group of investors, Jerry felt it best to step back in his roll.

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  • USB 3.0 Specification is released
  • Apple vs. Carl Sagan
  • Veronica is released
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