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June 11, 1980: Steve Ballmer Joins Microsoft

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Steve Ballmer
June 11, 1980: Steve Ballmer is hired as Microsoft’s first Business Manager

1980 – Otherwise known as “The 24th Man” (to join Microsoft, that is), Steve Ballmer came on as Microsoft’s first Business Manager. He made only $50k and stock options. Of course 30 years later, Steve succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of the Redmond based software company.

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SATAN

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April 5, 1995: Security Administration Tool (SATAN) Released

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SATAN

1995– The program is called the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks. But you may call it SATAN. The Perl written program – Written by Dan Famer and Wietse Venema –  was released to help network admins find vulnerabilities in their remote systems. There was a lot of controversy over the tool and it’s release, since it was the first user friendly tool.SATAN was never updated since, and has been replaced with: Nessus and SAINT.

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Puffing Devil Steam Engine

Day in Tech History/ Geek

March 24, 1802: The Puffing Devil Steam Engine Patent

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Puffing Devil Steam Engine
Puffing Devil Steam Engine

1802 – A patent for the first steam engine was issued to Richard Trevithick and Andrew Viviane. The machine was called the “Puffing Devil” or “Puffer”. The engine could produce 145 psi to push the car forward.

Richard had two versions of the engine – one as a car and the other as a locomotive. The car was first demonstrated on December 24, 1801, unfortunately, the puffer engine suffered catastrophic failure as it overheated and caught fire.

Eventually in 1804, Trevithick’s patent gave way to the first locomotive where he pulled ten cars along a track. He continued his work until 1833 when he passed away.

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Steve Ballmer

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

June 11, 1980: Steve Ballmer Joins Microsoft

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Steve Ballmer
June 11, 1980: Steve Ballmer is hired as Microsoft’s first Business Manager

1980 – Otherwise known as “The 24th Man” (to join Microsoft, that is), Steve Ballmer came on as Microsoft’s first Business Manager. He made only $50k and stock options. Of course 30 years later, Steve succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of the Redmond based software company.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for June 11

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  • First Cameraphone picture
    First Cameraphone picture

    Speak and Spell debuts

  • Compaq purchases DEC for $9 million
  • The first cameraphone photo – Philippe Kahn taking a picture of his newborn daughter
  • Apple releases Safari for Windows
  • 1st generation iPhone gets put on the Obsolete list
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SATAN

Computer/ Day in Tech History

April 5, 1995: Security Administration Tool (SATAN) Released

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SATAN
April 5, 1995: Security Administrator tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN) released

1995– The program is called the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks. But you may call it SATAN. The Perl written program – Written by Dan Famer and Wietse Venema –  was released to help network admins find vulnerabilities in their remote systems. There was a lot of controversy over the tool and it’s release, since it was the first user friendly tool.SATAN was never updated since, and has been replaced with: Nessus and SAINT.

Wikazine – Full show notes for April 5

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  • AOL unveils Netscape Navagator v. 6
  • Honeywell MicroSystem 6/10
  • Apple releases Boot Camp for dual booting Mac

Book: Protecting Networks with SATAN

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Puffing Devil Steam Engine

Day in Tech History/ Geek

March 24, 1802: The Puffing Devil Steam Engine Patent

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Puffing Devil Steam Engine
Puffing Devil Steam Engine

1802 – A patent for the first steam engine was issued to Richard Trevithick and Andrew Viviane. The machine was called the “Puffing Devil” or “Puffer”. The engine could produce 145 psi to push the car forward.

Richard had two versions of the engine – one as a car and the other as a locomotive. The car was first demonstrated on December 24, 1801, unfortunately, the puffer engine suffered catastrophic failure as it overheated and caught fire.

Eventually in 1804, Trevithick’s patent gave way to the first locomotive where he pulled ten cars along a track. He continued his work until 1833 when he passed away.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 24

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Steve Ballmer

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

June 11, 1997: First Cameraphone Picture, 1980: Steve Ballmer Joins Microsoft

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Steve Ballmer
June 11, 1980: Steve Ballmer is hired as Microsoft’s first Business Manager

1997 –  Phillippe Kahn snaps the very first cameraphone picture. It was his newborn daughter from a jury-rigged camera into cell phone. After that, Kahn created Lightsurf to develop and market the process.

1980 – Otherwise known as “The 24th Man” (to join Microsoft, that is), Steve Ballmer came on as Microsoft’s first Business Manager. He made only $50k and stock options. Of course 30 years later, Steve succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of the Redmond based software company.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for June 11

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  • First Cameraphone picture
    First Cameraphone picture

    Speak and Spell debuts

  • Compaq purchases DEC for $9 million
  • The first cameraphone photo – Philippe Kahn taking a picture of his newborn daughter
  • Apple releases Safari for Windows
  • 1st generation iPhone gets put on the Obsolete list
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OS X

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March 24, 2001: Apple Released Mac OS X for Desktop

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OS X
March 24, 2001: Mac OSX

2001– The Server version of the Mac OS X software hit in 1999, but the desktop version was not released until 2001. A POSIX compliant core OS with the XNU kernal. The OS X (pronounced OS ten) was based from the OPENSTEP software, which came from Steve Jobs other company: NeXT (Apple purchased NeXT in 1996).

The first version of Mac OS X was code named “Cheetah” (the public beta was “Kodiak”). From there, we had Apple Macintosh OS X Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, and soon to be released Mountain Lion.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 24

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