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June 16, 1977: Software Development Labs (Oracle) Incorporated

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1977 – Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates incorporate Software Development Laboratories (SDL). Of course, SDL’s big program was Oracle. It was a codename for a CIA funded project.

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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, 1951: UNIVAC I Unveiled

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1951 – It was the first commercial general-use computer. The UNIVAC I was unveiled in Washington DC. It was developed for the US census bureau. It stood 8 foot high and used magnetic tape at 10,000 characters a second.UNIVAC is an acronym for the Universal Automatic Computer. The computer itself was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31st, 1951. UNIVAC I was also used to predict the result of the 1952 Presidential election.

UNIVAC I cost around 1.2 million to build, which was a lot larger than their estimated price of $159,000. 46 units were built and delivered. 5,200 vacuum tubes were used to run UNIVAC I. It performed 1,905 operations per second.

Want more info on UNIVAC? Check out A Few Good Men From Univac (History of Computing) on Amazon

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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, 2014: Honey Moon, 1993: Interactive Television from Microsoft

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

2014 – Watch the sky tonight as you will see not only a full moon, but what is called the “Honey Moon”. What is so special about this moon – it will be the last full moon on a Friday the 13th until 2049.

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.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for June 11

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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, 1968: Legoland Park Opens

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1968, 45 years ago, the first Legoland Park opened in Denmark – called Legoland Billund. This park was right across the street from the Lego factory. It featured expansive cityscapes modeled in Lego bricks. 625,000 will visit the park within the first year.

The rich story of LEGO is a Pixar Video I talked about on Dorkazine

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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, 2003: Palm Acquires Handspring

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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

2003 – Palm board of directors announce they have unanimously approved an agreement for Pam to purchase Handspring – one of its rivals in the PDA market. The deal is all stock realted where Handspring stockholders would get .09 cents of a share of Palm and no shares of PalmSource (Palm shares were at $13.89 and Handspring were at $1.27). The deal would be worth $169 million.

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

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June 3, 1984: Commodore TED-16, Plus/4

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1984 – Commodore adds to their line of computers. The Plus/4 – originally called the 264 – was released for $300. The Commodore 16 or TED-16 looked like a Commodore 64 with 16KB of RAM. It was called the “Learning Machine” and sold for $100

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Nintendo sues Lewis Galoob over the Game Genie
AT&T offers Wi-Fi at Starbucks
Microsoft releases “Nehalem” Core i7

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June 2, 1997: PointCast Re-Organized

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1997 – If anyone remembers the Windows 95 days, you may have had Pointcast playing as the screensaver. It was a push notification site that would send you content. Pretty innovative for it’s time, yet, time ended up getting the best of it. Creator and CEO Chris Hassett stepped down and Pointcast was re-organized.Ultimately, AOL purchased the company and incorporated it into their systems.

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IBM PS/2 Model 70
The CIH Computer Virus surfaces
Safari Carpet Bomb attack

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May 31, 1943: Construction on ENIAC Begins

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1943– The building of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) begins at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The Army financed the project during World War II, which cost almost $500,000. John Mauchly was the chief consultant and John Presper Eckert was the chief engineer.ENIAC was code named “Project PX”. The consent to build was signed on June 5. ENIAC was completed on February 14, 1946. This was a modular computer, designed in “panels”. You could build to suit. Of course, this machine was so big, it took up whole rooms. It ran hot, too – using Octal based radio tubes. ENIAC could be programmed to perform complex sequences of operations, including loops, branches, and subroutines.

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Apple restructures, removes Steve Jobs
Microsoft Office XP is released
Swedish Police raid the Pirate Bay

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