December 12: Apple Initial Public Offering
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1980 – Apple Computer goes up for their Initial Public Offering and makes a statement in the market. Using the symbol “Steve Jobs reports $217 Million, being the largest shareholder. It beat out Ford Motor when it went IPOV (IPO Viral).
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- OSCAR I goes into orbit
- Christopher Cockerell patents the Hovercraft
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December 11, 1967: The Concorde Supersonic Airliner
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Concorde Jet 1967 – The Concorde was a British and French venture. It wa the first supersonic airliner. The prototype (Concorde 001) was rolled out to 1100 present. British technology minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn coined it Concorde on that day. The last “e” would stand for excellence. The first flight would not happen until March 1969.
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- creditcards.com hacked
- Google Chrome (Windows) exits Beta
- Martin Luther King Jr. lectures on science and technology
December 10, 1993: DOOM Released Unofficially
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Doom Unofficially Released 1993 – 20 years ago, a Shareware copy was uploaded through a server at the University of Wisconsin (and although I was going to school there at the time, it wasn’t me – HONEST). The end result was the beginning of the first-person shooter. For those who do not want to read the Doom Bible, the story is about a Marine who assaults a senior officer, therefore was incarcerated on Mars at the Union Aerospace Corporation. His job was to overlook the teleportation device.However, the device goes haywire and a whole bunch of creatures come out of the portal. The player is told to secure until help arrives. Unfortunately, that means heading through the establishment and defending from the monsters that attack.
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December 9, 2002: Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) Trial
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Jon Lech Johansen 2002 – The trial of Jon Lech Johansen, better known as “DVD Jon,” begins with Johansen pleading not guilty. DVD Jon has been a pioneer in “Reverse engineering”. O.K, so that is a fancy way of saying “Pirating”, but without his efforts, advances might not have been made. He was acquitted on January 7, 2003.
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- Yahoo acquires del.icio.us (delicious.com)
- Microsoft launches Windows 2.01 and Oxite
- Bandai releases WonderSwan
December 8, 2004: IBM sells PC Division to Lenovo
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Lenovo 2004 – It was an interesting day in the Tech community when we heard the news. IBM was getting out of the desktop and laptop markets and focus on server and infrastructure. They started by selling all their assets to Lenovo – China’s largest computer manufacturer. Lenovo wasn’t a household name in the US, but this pretty much changed that overnight.The deal was for $650 million in cash and $600 million in stock. Lenovo would also acquire $500 million in IBM liabilities, which would put the total to $1.75 billion. In return, Lenovo would instantly become the 3rd largest PC vendor with $12 billion in revenue, not to mention major markets in both China and the U.S.
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- RCA demonstrates Split Screen technology for the first time.
- Patent for Coaxial cable
- Atari sues Coleco, Coleco sues back.
December 7, 1978: Microsoft Staff Picture
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Microsoft Crew 1978 – It is one of the most infamous pictures in tech today. This is the Microsoft crew. Can you guess which one is Bill Gates?
The picture was updated in 2008 when the group (except Bob Wallace, who passed away in 2002) got back together for Bill Gates last few days at Microsoft (below).
The staff picture includes: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen (2nd row) Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg (who helped launch Cabbage Patch Kids), Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin, (3rd row) Steve Wood, Bob Wallace (passed away in 2002) and Jim Lane.
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- Star Trek: The Motion Picture is released
- Mozilla Thunderbird is released
- Bittorrent has acquired uTorrent
Microsoft Re-take in 2008 
December 6th, 1768: Encyclopedia Britannica Published
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Encyclopaedia Britannica 1768 – Encyclopedia Britannica began publishing the first print – otherwise known as “part I”. It was the brain child of Colin Macfarquhar, and Andrew Bell, and was a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot. The first volume would be completed Edinburgh, Scotland by 1771. The 3rd edition would become popular and also expand for the first time. Since then, the Britannica would be digitized and put on CD, then DVD format. Today’s current version has 400 editors and 1,000 contributors. The Encyclopedia also saw several pirate copies during it’s 242 year run.The Encyclopedia would move to the US in 1901. Today, Britannica is produced as a digital version.
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- IBM 2420
- Playstation sells 300,000
- Apple Shares fall
- Opera v.5 is released
- .XXX goes online
December 5, 1965: First Computer Science Degree: Richard Wexelblat
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Richard Wexelblat – History of Programming Languages 1965 – Richard Wexelblat was the first candidate to complete his doctoral dissertation, hence giving him a degree in “Computer Science“. It was presented at the University of Pennsylvania – Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Richard went on to write the “History of Programming Languages” (ISBN:0-12-745040-8)
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- Today is the official birth of the Transistor
- Amazon Crashes
- HD Support for YouTube
