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June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

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June 6, 2011 Steve Jobs gave his last keynote for Apple

2005 – Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then showed off the Mac OS X running on aPentium 4 CPU. The reasoning was that PowerPC chips took too much power to run and also ran hotter than an Intel chip.

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TI 99/8 is introduced
The first Internet connection
Palm releases the Palm Pre

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June 5, 1983: Coleco Adam Computer

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1983 – Coleco announced at the Consumer Electronics Show the Coleco Adam. It was their first attempt at a computer hybrid system – gaming and desktop computing. The $725 price tag didn’t hurt, either.

With a Zilog Z80 processor and 80 kB RAM with 16 kB video RAM, the Adam could do what you needed. Also available was a printer, tape drive, and spots for 3 expansion cards.

Unfortunately, the computer didn’t do as well as the company wanted. They expected a half-million sold by December, but didn’t reach that goal. Ultimately, the Coleco Adam was discontinued in 1985.

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Apple II goes on sale
Bob Hope was declared dead on the Internet – which was not true
Jeff Moss joined the Homeland Security Advisory Council

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June 1, 1979: the 8088 Microprocessor

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1979 – Intel released the successor to the 8086 processor in the Intel 8088 chip. With a clock rate of either 4.77 MHz or 8 MHz, this 16-bit chip had an external bus of 8 bits and 29,000 transistors. It was used in IBM PC and PC-XT computers during the 80’s.

Descendants to the 8088 are the 80188, 80186, and what would become the 386, 486 and Pentium chips.

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Steve Jobs becomes the major apple shareholder with 1.5 million
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Google Launches Google+ Local

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May 29, 1999: Five Million Domain Names Registered

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1999 – Believeinkids.com became the five-millionth domain name in the world. At the time, a domain name cost $70 for the first year, $35 a year thereafter.

The domain name was abandoned and is still available to this day.

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Vim 4.0 is released
IEEE 1394 officially becomes “Firewire”

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May 28, 2014: Apple Music Acquires Beats

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2014 – Rumors flew high on this one, so when it happened, many people were not surprised. Apple announced they were going to acquire Beats Music and Electronics in a $3 billion deal. As part of the acquisition, co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine would join Apple.

Beats subscription service would continue to work as part of the service would be integrated with iTunes. Currently, Beats has a 20 million song library, and is available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone for a $9.99 subscription.

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Steve Jobs is removed as General Manager of Macintosh Division
Yahoo! completes Acquisition of Geocities
3DO gaming filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Time Warner separates from AOL.
The first graphene-based circuits to break the gigahertz barrier

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May 22, 1973: Ethernet is Proposed

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1973 – Robert Metcalfe writes a thirteen-page memo describing a new type of data transmission method. His memo was entitled “Ether Acquisition”, which would connect Hawaii’s ALOHA Network.

Alto Ethernet was born on paper, but didn’t see operation until November 11, 1973 when it was implemented.

Metcalfe was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996 for his work on inventing Ethernet. He was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Robert Metcalfe describes a new device called the Laser Printer
Adobe ships Illustrator 7.0
Apple splits Newton into it’s own division
SpaceX Launched and docks with Space Station

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May 19, 1999: Star Wars Episode I Released

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1999 – Sixteen years after “Return of the Jedi”, George Lucas finally moves his vision forward with “Star Wars: Episode I – the Phantom Menace”. The story of young Anakin Skywalker and how Obi-Wan Kenobi brought him in, trained him, and ultimately lost him to the dark side.

Episode I grossed over $924.3 million worldwide and became one of the highest-grossing films of 1999. The 2nd set trilogy would continue with Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

The movie was received with warm reviews. The general consensus was the character development lacked while the scenes, characters, and landscapes were breathtaking. Even Roger Ebert gave it three-and-a-half stars.

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Star Wars Episode I
Apple opens the first Apple Stores
Intel debuts the pineview Atom chip

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May 15, 1940: Speedee McDonalds Opens

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1940 – The first Corporate McDonalds restaurant opened in San Bernardino, CA by Richard and Maurice McDonald. “Speedee” was the mascot back then – a hamburger-chef that was poised upon the McDonalds sign. The “Golden Arches” dawned on the sides of the restaurant.

In 1955, Ray Kroc took notice and partnered up with the brothers. They created the corporate version of McDonalds at that time. He opened the 9th store in Des Plaines, IL and eventually took the headquarters there.

The original McDonalds was demolished in 1976.

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The Love Bug strikes
Carl Icahn officially launches a Proxy fight against Yahoo
CBS Acquired CNet
Supposed Coca-Cola recipe sold on eBay for $15 million

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