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June 18, 2007: Terry Semel of Yahoo Step Down

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2007 – Terry Semel was under pressure by the board because of dissatisfaction of his compensation. Terry was brought in to create a partnership with Hollywood, which really didn’t happen. He handed the reigns over to Jerry Yang, who started promising revitalized talks with Microsoft. There are a few that even speculate that was when the buyout of Yahoo began. Jerry Yang stepped down in 200

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1999 – Palm announces the m100
2009 – Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay 1.92 million to the RIAA.
Microsoft announced the Surface Tablet

Head of the Statue of Liberty: Paris World's Fair, 1878

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June 17, 1885: Statue of Liberty is Delivered

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1885 – Arriving in over 200 crates, the Statue of Liberty is fully delivered to New York City. French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, along with Gustave Eiffel, created this statue for America to be a symbol of freedom and friendship between the US and France.

Yet, it almost didn’t get assembled due to an argument on who would pay for the pedestal at Ellis Island. President Cleveland finally dedicated the statue on October 28, 1886.

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Linus Torvolds announces he will leave Transmetta to work for the Open Source Development Labs
Flickr co-founders leave the company
Compaq announces the Armada line of computers

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June 16, 1997: NetPC Announced

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1997 – Several computer companies banded together to help create the NetPC. A disk-less computer that got all information, including install – from a corporate server or the Internet.

Basically, these would be similar to thin clients or “Dumb terminals” for work computers. No CD drive, no floppy disc and limited disk space. Cases were sealed so nobody could get inside to reconfigure the computer. Installs would be handled via the Internet, therefore, no personal software could be installed.

Microsoft and Intel unveiled the system at the PC Expo trade show. NetPC would work with Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, Acer, Gateway 2000, Mitac, Misubishi, NEC, Pionex, and Groupe Bull computer companies to make the first group of NetPC computers.

The sub-$1,000 computer was a great idea that would work better today than in 1997. IBM dropped out of the project before the first NetPCs came out. They decided to make something their customers would use.

Microsoft finally pulled the plug at the Windows Engineering Conference in 1998 when John Frederiksen, lead project manager for thin clients acknowledged the phase-out process.

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1657 – The first Pendulum Clock
1884 – Coney Island’s first gravity powered Roller Coaster
1988 – Intel releases the i386DX
1999 – Windows 98 SP1 is released
2008 – Google Docs gets PDF Support
2009 –iPhone OS 3.0

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June 14, 1938: Action Comics Introduced Superman

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1938 – It is one of the geekiest days for people like me. Creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster introduced one of the comic heros in Action Comics. Interesting enough, Superman was suppose to be a bad guy.

The first form of him appeared in “Science Fiction #3” in 1933. He looked more like Lex Luthor than the caped crusader. But with a little re-tooling, Superman made the comics and a piece of geek history.

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1938 – The First Superman comic
1985 – Apple lays off 1,200 employees
1997 – Tamapittchi, a cellular phone with a Tamagotchi built into it, is released in Japan
2006 – Google Maps for Enterprise
2009 – #CNNFail

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June 13, 1993: Interactive Television from Microsoft

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June 13, 1993: Microsoft and Time-Warner Create Interactive TV

1993 – Microsoft teamed up with Tele-communications and Time Warner to start the revolution known as “Interactive TV”. The ability to buy product right through the set during a show. iTV would give users a Digital Set Top Box in which they would use to browse, go back and watch video. It even connected to a telephone to let you know who is calling and possibly get SMS messages.

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1983 – Pioneer Crossed Neptune
1986 – Activision finalizes the merger with Infocom
2003 – 2.4.21 of LINUX kernal released
2003 – IE for Mac is shut down
2005 – Fedora Core 4 is released
2006 – Vincent Ferrari tries to cancel his AOL account, but the agent wouldn’t
2007 – Jeffrey Goodin is the first to be sentenced because of the CAN-SPAM act. He was posing as an AOL billing agent

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June 7, 1975: Sony Betamax is Released

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1975 – Sony releases the first home videocassette recorder in the US. Japan first saw the Betamax on May 10, 1975, which was not uncommon. The magnetic tape media was the first to be on the market, as VHS didn’t come around until 1976.

Many believed Betamax was the better of the two in quality. Many TV and professional recording companies used the format almost til the end of their lifetime. Of course, in 1984, the players were under major fire for copyright infringement from Universal. However, it was ruled that although they could record the content, it was not their responsibility if someone used it for illegal activity.

Sony finally stopped producing the player and tapes on August, 2002.

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Commodore Executive 64 is released
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders the breakup of Microsoft into two companies

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June 4, 1896: Ford Test Drives First Car

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Ford Quadricycle — June 4, 1896: Henry Ford tests the Quadricycle

1896 – Henry Ford gets ready to test drive the first Quadricycle (a.k.a. Car). Only one problem – They didn’t make the garage door big enough. Out comes the Ax – A couple chops and a wider door was created. The car ran 2 speed, but could not go in reverse.

It’s all in the book – the ford century

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Patent for DRAM
Nintendo introduced the Game Boy
Packard Bell and NEC merge

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June 3, 2009: Core i7 “Nehalem”

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2009 – Intel introduces the Nehalem Core i7 processor, code-named “Lynnfield”. The i7-950 and 975 models are 4-core processors with a speed of 3.06 GHz. The processor ran 64-bit instruction set and could take up to 24 GB of RAM at DDR3 800/1066. Price: $294.00