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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

Day in Tech History/ Internet

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

Day in Tech History/ Geek

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

Day in Tech History/ Geek

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

Day in Tech History/ Software

May 11, 2011: Google Chromebook Introduced

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2011 – Eric Schmidt shows off the new Google Chrome OS but with an added feature as he introduced Google Chromebook – a personal computer with the Google Chrome OS built-in. The device loads straight to the browser where you can install applications for functionality on your Chromebook. The first Chromebook would begin selling on June 15, 2011.

Since then, Google has released the Pixelbook, Pixelbook 2, and the newest Pixel Slate – their tablet offering.

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Sega begins shipping the Saturn system
AOL launches free webmail
Verizon sells part of Alltel to AT&T

Day in Tech History/ Gaming

May 8, 2006: E3 – Playstation 3 Announced

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2006– At a press conference before E3, Sony announced the Playstation 3 gaming console. This would be for a November 17 release and would feature items like Bluetooth wireless controllers, Wi-Fi and HDMI video output, and more. The system also will contain a Blu-ray disc system and pre-installed HDD.

JavE 6.0 is released
Citirix XenServer 5.5 released
Apple introduces the Powerbook 2400c

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

May 6, 2004: Paint.Net Graphics Editor Released

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Paint.Net

2004 – A free raster graphics editor, Paint.NET was created and released by Rick Brewster as a school project at Washington State University. The software was released under the MIT License and was at first Open Source. After multiple cases of plagiarism, the software moved to Creative Commons, then in version 3.36 was turned to closed-source (but still free).

The latest version of Paint.Net 4.0 uses NET framework 4.5.1.

The Sierra Network is announced
Paint.NET v.1 is released
Sprint, Nextel and Clearwire announce WiMAX under the Clearwire name

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