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April 13, 1965: Moore’s Law

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1965– You may have heard about Moore’s Law. This states that every 18 months, a processor will double in speed. The law’s name is coined after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore. He said:

It can’t continue forever. The nature of the exponential is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens.

The law started with the Integrated circuit. It has continued to this day – especially since we switched ideas and, instead of speeding up, we double the amount of processors.

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Apple discontinues the Power Mac G4
Atari signs agreement with Williams Electronics
Metallica sues Napster

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April 3, 1973: First Cell Phone Call

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1973 – Martin Cooper made the first handheld cellular phone call in public. Walking down the streets of New York, Cooper – the General Manager of Motorola’s communication system division – talked on the phone. It’s not the first cellular call since car phones have been around before then. The phone is also known as the “Brick” cell phone.

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Atari declares today Pac Man Day
The first Telnet specification
IBM introduces the PC Convertable

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March 31, 2008: DNS Addressing Flaw

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2008 – Dan Kaminsky announced he has been in contact with Microsoft over a flaw in the DNS naming system. At this time, there were no other details as to keep this issue as secret as possible while they try to fix the problem.

On March 27, Kaminsky discovered that within the Conficker virus, the hosts had a detectable signature when scanned remotely. This was known as DNS Cache poisoning. Over 568,000 computers were infected because of this. The patch was released on July 8th, 2008.

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Construction of Harvard Mark I
Atari gets a Cease and Desist letter in manufacturing Tetris.
Microsoft Bob for Windows is released

Mark Zuckerberg's first Interview after Facebook IPO

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March 13, 2013: Zuckerberg Calls President Obama

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2014 – Mark Zuckerberg told the press he called President Barak Obama to bring his concerns to the table. The Facebook post talked about trust on the Internet, keeping it a shared space and how we should work together to create a secure environment.

“I’ve called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform.”

The NSA stated they do not use their technical abilities to impersonate US company websites. The refuted all reports.

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Apple and Bandai demonstrate the Pippin Atmark Multimedia computer
JTS sells Atari to HIACXI
Jerry Jalava gets the first prothstetic thumb drive

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March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 launched

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1981 – The successor to the Sinclair ZX80, Britain’s most popular home computer – the Sinclair ZX81 was launched by Sinclair Research – a Timex Corporation. It was a popular computer mostly because of the price – £69.95 ($99) or £49.95 in kit form.

The cheap computer had only a fraction of components that an Apple II did. Yet the Apple II was around £699. The Sinclair ZX81 only had 1 kB RAM with option to upgrade to 16 kB. The graphics were only in monochrome and the Z80 CPU ran at 3.25 MHz – 8-bit. This was actually faster than the Apple II processor (1.08 MHz) and only outbested by the IBM PC (4.77 MHz at 16-bit). The TI99/4A procesor was a 3Mhz 16-bit chip.

You could get a tape drive and printer, bringing the system up to about £160 ($250). The computer was succeeded by the ZX Spectrum.

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WMS Industries acquires Atari
President Barak Obama appoints Vivek Kundra as CTO

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February 28, 1966: Right to Privacy

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February 28, 1966: FCC creates Right to Privacy[/caption]

During non-leap years, this Day in Tech History episode will be for the 28th and 29th.

1966 (Feb 28) – With all these ways to listen in on a conversation, the FCC has to make a ruling to protect the rights of US citizens. They create the Right to Privacy act which bands evesdropping or direct and indirect use of radio – controlled devices.

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M*A*S*H* broadcasts the final episode
PeopleSoft reorganizes

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February 23, 1896: Tootsie Roll Introduced

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February 23, 1896 – Tootsie Roll is introduced in US[/caption]

1896 – A little Geeky knowledge for ya – The Tootsie roll is introduced. Austrian immigrant Leo Hishfield took the idea to a New York store and sold the idea. The name comes from her 5 year old daughter, whom everyone called “Tootsie”. It became the first “Penny candy” and was even a War time ration since it could withstand severe weather conditions.

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Texas Instruments recalls the TI-99/4a for a short in the system
JTS Corp sells Atari to HIACXI, who is owned by Hasbro
Comcast OnDemand is launched

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February 13, 1996: Jugi Tandon Storage (JTS) Merged with Atari

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February 13, 1996: JTS merges with Atari[/caption]

1996 – Atari Corporation announces the merger with Jugi Tandon Storage (JTS). Atari extended a bridge loan of $25 Million so JTS can still build drives. The company would still be known as JTS, but Atari would own 60% of the company.While Atari was sold to Hasbro via THQ, JTS could not emerge from the debts. They ended up filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Feb 28, 1999.

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The Last Peanuts Comic Strip is released one day after Creator Charles Schultz passes
Apollo Computer is formed
Rush Limbaugh gets service call from Steve Jobs

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