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January 20, 1885: the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway Patent

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, amature, apple, BBS, blind mice, blind mouse, businessmen, carleen thomas, comcast, Geek, Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway, IBM, iTunes, january 20, LaMarcus Adna Thompson, lemmings, mac, macintosh, macintosh apple, macintosh office, Microsoft, microsoft market, oblivion, oppression, rendition, roller coaster, RSS, sledgehammer, super bowl, Super Bowl advertising, superbowl, superbowl commercial, Switchback Railway 0 Comments January 19, 2019

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1885 – Sounding like anything but a roller coaster, the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway was the first American designed amusement coaster designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson. Only 5 cents to ride, the Switchback was a simple coaster that took you about 600 feet to the next tower at six miles per hour. It had a height of 50 feet and a drop of 43 feet.

It opened on June 16, 1884 and eventually was replaced. But on this day, the roller coaster saw one of its first patents from this ride.

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Robert and Carleen Thomas (Amature Action BBS) were raided
Microsoft market value surpasses IBM for the first time to $26.78 Billion
Microsoft sells all shares of Comcast

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November 25, 2002: Roxio Purchased Napster

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, bankruptcy, BBS, best buy, BestBuy, crack, dollar company, dvd jon, Geek, icann, Intellectual property, iTunes, logos, memorandum of understanding, merging technologies, mozy, napster, napster 2, playboy, private media group, quot, Rhapsody, Roxio, roxio pressplay, Spotify, technology history 0 Comments November 24, 2018

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Napster

2002 – While in Bankruptcy since the following September, Roxio – along with the Private Media Group – came in and took over the $2.43 million dollar company. They took all logos and names and rebranded it “Napster 2.0”. This time, Napster was a pay site – merging technologies with Roxio Pressplay.The sale completed in 2003Ultimately, the company was purchased by Best Buy in 2008.

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DVD Jon releases the crack to WMV9 codec
ICANN and the US Commerce Memorandum of Understanding
Playboy files suit against Rusty n Edie’s BBS

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November 19, 1993: Don’t Post Bomb Instructions Online

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 4 months, aggregator, bankruptcy, BBS, bomb, bombs, computer, computer group, day in tech history, first amendment rights, freedom of information, freedom of speech, guns n roses, historical events, instances, international information retrieval, ionizer, micropolis, Podcast, technology history, wildcat 0 Comments November 18, 2018

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1993 – The Ionizer – Otherwise known as Michael Elanky, recieved 28 months in prison for posting bomb-making instructions on his BBS. There have been other instances of this throughout history, but Elansky was a member of the International Information Retrieval Guild, a computer group very much concerned with freedom of speech and freedom of information. Like the group with which he was affiliated, Michael felt strongly about our First Amendment rights.Therefore, he posted on his BBS – called the Warehouse – instructions on making bombs.

Michael was arrested back in July 1993 and couldn’t post the $500,000 bail. Therefore he spent 4 months in jail. The instructions were originally written by “Deth Vegetable”.

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Micropolis files for bankruptcy
Wildcat BBS sold to Snatronics Software
Guns N Roses announce their album will be on MySpace 1 week before release

Day in Tech History/ Geek

September 8, 2008: Real Launched RealDVD

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, BBS, brianna, controversy, current point, davy jones locker, day in tech history, dvds, hard drive, hotbed, injunction, launches, Podcast, realdvd, realtime updates, riaa sues 261, richard kenadek, technology history, vdns 0 Comments September 8, 2018

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2008 –Real launches a new program that will allow you to put your DVDs and other format movies onto the hard drive. It instantly became a hotbed of controversy as the software raised the question: can you legally copy the data to another media? The battle started in court and at this current point, RealDVD is on an injunction of sales.

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Realtime updates of VDNS
RIAA sues 261 including Brianna LaHara, a 13 yo girl
Richard Kenadek pleads not guilty on Davy Jones Locker BBS

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

July 4, 1996: Microsoft Hotmail Independence Day Launch

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, BBS, day in tech history, ebay, ebay baby, email service, first web, Geek, Google, hotmail, HTML, independence day, internet service provider, july 4, Microsoft, microsoft hotmail, Podcast, president of the internet, stiff competition, stitcher, storage, technology history, upper case, web based email, Webmail, Windows Live SkyDrive, Yahoo, Yahoo Mail 0 Comments July 4, 2018

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“Happy Independence Day. In return, we are going to give you a great new way to get email. It’s called “Hotmail“. Be free from your internet service provider!”

That was the call to action on 1996. Hotmail launched their email service as “HoTMaiL” (HTML is upper-case). It is the first web-based email that was later named MSN Hotmail, then Windows Live Hotmail.

Hotmail had many features since its start. Unlimited storage was one big feature. In 1997, Microsoft purchased Hotmail for $400 million, and changed the name to MSN Hotmail. They paired with the Microsoft Instant Messanger, then built items like the calendar, SkyDrive, and more.

After getting stiff competition from Google in 2004, Microsoft changed the service to Live Hotmail. The service continues on with many updates to compete with Google and Yahoo mail.

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Major BBS is released
Who is the President of the Internet
1 euro ebay baby goes home

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March 10, 2002: Sony Clié Announced

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2003 – The Sony Clié PEG-NR70 and PEG-NR70V handheld computers were released. These were 66 MHz PDA units running the Motorola Dragonball SuperVZ processor with a 16-bit color screen and running Palm OS 4.1.

The devices would go on sale on April 13, 2002 for $600

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Richard D Kenadek is sentenced in the Davy Jones Locker BBS case
Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are launched into space
Google releases Android 1.1

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March 10, 1988: Uncensored Bulletin Board System Launched

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1988– Ignatius T. Foobar launches one of the more interesting and long-lasting Bulletin board systems in the Uncensored BBS. Of course, his name was really Art Cancro, but Ignatius used an Altos 586 running Citadel/UX software. This BBS is still running to this day, even though dial-up access has been discontinued since 2001.

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Richard D Kenadek is sentenced in the Davy Jones Locker BBS case
Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are launched into space
Google releases Android 1.1

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January 24, 1996: RemoteAccess BBS Released to Public

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine andrew milner, Android, BBS, bbs software, beta team, blackberry, bulletin board system, clones, crude version, day in tech history, electronic calculator, fidonet, file database, ford motor company, gary mckinnon, internet protocol, iPhone, iTunes, jam message, jan 24, january 24, joaquim homrighausen, judicial review, microwave oven, mozy, multitasking, online forums, palm, party utilities, Podcast, protocol systems, ra, radio, Remote access, remoteaccess, stitcher, sync, technology history, tobias burchhardt 0 Comments January 24, 2014

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RemoteAccess BBS is a DOS Bulletin Board System. It’s software was written by Andrew Milner. RemoteAccess was released as shareware and did a crude version of Multitasking.

The final version of RA was released in 1996 (with a Y2K fix in 2000). At that time BBS were being switched to Internet protocol systems like online forums.

1994 – Apple released the Macintosh computer. Marketed as Mac, Steve Jobs brought it in with an Amazing Superbowl commercial behind it. The Macintosh 128K brought the graphical user interface and mouse into home and business computing.

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IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) a.k.a “the Poppa” is dedicated
Microwave Oven is patented
Gary McKinnon won right to judicial review
Apple introduces a floppy drive for the Lisa computer

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