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October 28, 1955: Bill Gates Birthday

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1955 – William Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates has a son. William Gates III was born in Seattle, WA. Bill Gates, of course, went on to start Microsoft. Bill was CEO of Microsoft until he retired in 2008. In 2000, he started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Interestingly enough, 30 years later in 1985, Bill Gates put Microsoft up for IPO. That’s a birthday present…

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Apple unveils MessagePad2000
Digital Millennium Copyright Act goes into Law
Palm merges Handspring – forms PalmOne

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September 24, 1998: eBay filed IPO

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1998– In 3 years since it’s inception, eBay grew to be a powerful auction site. Therefore, eBay decided to go public. They offered 9 million shares on NASDAQ starting at $18 a share. When all is said and done, they closed the day at $47.375.

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for September 24

Compuserve services start
USS Enterprise launched
Qualcom infringed on Broadcom patents
Myst released

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August 11, 1993: Red Hat Goes Public

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Red Hat is a Linux distribution and a vendor. They are on the S&P 500 company list for it. Founded in 1993, this company has provided a more professional type of open source software – giving pay support and Enterprise editions for IT pros. CEO Bob Young brought the company to this point. They filed for IPO in 1999. It turned out to be one of the largest Wall Street Gains in history. They put up 900,000 shares of common stock. Red Hat spiked at $136 a share, but is currently at $57

Also, Palm released the Palm VIIx and Vx handheld computers. VIIx was $449 and the Vx was $399.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for August 11

BD-ROM is Finalized
Yahoo and Alibaba.com
Hypercard is Introduced by Apple.

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June 27, 2008: Bill Gates Steps Down

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2008 – Microsoft CEO Bill Gates officially steps down from office. He hands the reigns over to Steve Ballmer, and stays on as Chairman of the Board.

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Gillette makes the Erasermate – the first erasable pen
Atari is established

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May 29, 1999: Five Million Domain Names

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1999 – Believeinkids.com became the five-millionth domain name in the world. At the time, a domain name cost $70 for the first year, $35 a year thereafter.

The domain name was abandoned and is still available to this day.

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Vim 4.0 is released
IEEE 1394 officially becomes “Firewire”

Mark Zuckerberg's first Interview after Facebook IPO

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March 13, 2013: Zuckerberg Calls President Obama

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2014 – Mark Zuckerberg told the press he called President Barak Obama to bring his concerns to the table. The Facebook post talked about trust on the Internet, keeping it a shared space and how we should work together to create a secure environment.

“I’ve called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform.”

The NSA stated they do not use their technical abilities to impersonate US company websites. The refuted all reports.

Post by Mark Zuckerberg.

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Apple and Bandai demonstrate the Pippin Atmark Multimedia computer
JTS sells Atari to HIACXI
Jerry Jalava gets the first prothstetic thumb drive

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March 1, 1990: The Raid of Steve Jackson Games

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1990 – The secret service and Austin TX police raided Steve Jackson Games, along with the home of Loyd Blankenship, writer of GURPS Cyberpunk. Four computers, two laser printers and all of the companies’ hardware was seized. This was a part of a nationwide data piracy investigation.

It was a very sketchy reason for why the roleplaying and gaming company got raided this hard. This also brought on a six month battle to get back their hardware, which they finally were able to retrieve all but one hard drive. Finally, on October 21, 1990, Steve Jackson Games got to look at the warrant and reason why they were raided.

It turned out Blankenship was doing research for his book. He visited and talked alot about questionable topics at his home and at his work – Steve Jackson Games.

This incident sparked the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation – a nonprofit dedicated to the constitutional rights of computer users.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 1

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LISP Programmers Manual is released
Palm Inc gets it’s first IPO
MSNBC.com launches Newsvine

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June 27, 1995: Mosaic, Spyglass get IPO

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1995– A company founded by students in Illinois, Spyglass becomes a publicly traded company. Of course, their web browser – Mosaic – was the heart of their software. Spyglass was used in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 1.0. The company was ultimately acquired by OpenTV, a privately held internet TV company.

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