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June 8, 2001: NetZero and Juno Merge to United Online

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2001 – To compete with AOL, Internet Service Providers NetZero and Juno Online Services announce they will merge to become United Online. The company would eventually acquire other assets to keep afloat, including the purchase of the FTD group in 2008.

Of course, NetZero had changed their business model to a Wireless plan in 2012 and operates a broadband and dial up service nation-wide.

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Intel introduces the 8086 processor
Yahoo acquires Viaweb
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June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

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2005 – Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then showed off the Mac OS X running on aPentium 4 CPU. The reasoning was that PowerPC chips took too much power to run and also ran hotter than an Intel chip.

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TI 99/8 is introduced
The first Internet connection
Palm releases the Palm Pre

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March 29, 1989: Pixar’s Tin Toy Wins Academy Award

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1982 – The first completely computer animated video wins an Academy Award for best animated short film. “Tin Toy” by Pixar (now a division of Disney) was an animated short film about a toy named Tinny – a one man band – who was being played by an infant named Billy. The short film lasted 5 minutes and cost $300,000 to make.

The short film also won awards at the Seattle International Film Festival, World Animation Celebration, and National Film Registry.

A sequel was in the works, but Tinny was not a popular toy for the kids. Therefore, the film was not made as Pixar concentrated on the movie “Toy Story”.

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Melissa macro virus was first reported
Netfinity A-100 appliance server
Skype for iPhone

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March 14, 1994: Apple Power Macintosh

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1994 – Apple computer released a new line of MacIntosh computers in the Power Macintosh 6100. With a 60-66 MHz PowerPC 601 RISC processor – the first time Apple used this processor line – up to 32 MB of RAM, and options such as a composite and S-Video input/output, along with full 48 kHz 16-bit DAT resolution sound processing, this was the computer for the mulitmedia professional. The basic Power Macintosh 6100 was priced at $2,209

Apple also introduced the Power Macintosh 7100 for $3,379 and the 8100 with a 68LC040 emulation ROM for $4,869

It was codename: Piltdown Man

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Microsoft releases XBox in Europe
NEC announces they will be getting into the computer market
Apple releases the Power Macintosh computer

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March 7, 1996: Pluto Photos Released

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1996 – Even though Pluto was first seen in 1930, we didn’t have the ability to take a decent picture of the furthest planet… er… dwarf planet… er… (dang you Neil deGrasse Tyson!!!). The Hubble telescope finally was powerful enough to take photos of Pluto’s surface. They spent over 6 days taking snapshots and learning all about this distant neighbor.

Astronomers found that Pluto had a complex surface, just like Earth. Many basins and craters were discovered during that six day photo session.

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Richard Wittman Jr. admits breaking into NASA
Sony announces release of Linux development kit for Playstation 2
Intel gives computers, internet to employees for free.

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February 28, 1983: Goodbye MASH (and Feb 29th)

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1983 – The last episode of M*A*S*H – Goodbye, Farewell and Amen aired to a record 125 million viewers (estimate). It became the most watched television episode in the US – where it stays today. Some even speculate this will never get bumped off due to Over the Top Television options like Hulu Plus and Netflix where people can choose to watch it later.

Still, the number of viewers was almost half the US population in 1999.

Feb 29, 2012 – The Raspberry Pi was released after 3 years of R&D.

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PeopleSoft reorganizes

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June 30, 1986: Paperboy Incident with Atari

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1986 – Mark Caesar and Robin Hallingstad sued Atari Games for $1 million dollars. Apparently, the boys (ages 14 and 16) submitted a game idea called “Paperboy” to Atari back in 1983. Paperboy is a popular game where the kid on a bike had to throw papers on the stoops of houses and avoid cars, cats, rc cars and guys with jackhammers. It had one sequel (Paperboy II) and was recreated for many of the game systems. In 2009, it was adapted for the iPhone and iPod

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IBM unbundles software from Hardware
President Bill Clinton e-signs the first bill into law
Global Gaming Factory X announces they will be buying the Pirate Bay

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June 29, 2007: Apple Releases 1st Gen iPhone (EDGE)

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2007 – Apple stores open for the hundreds of people standing in line to get the 1st generation iPhone (aka iPhone EDGE). It was the first Smartphone with a multi-touch interface. 4 GB and 8 GB models on AT&T’s network running EDGE. Jobs later stated he didn’t put 3G into the phone because it took way too much battery life to run. The phone had an ARM1176JZF at 620 MHz and 128 MB of RAM.

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