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December 28, 1995: 200 Sites Blocked by Compuserve

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1995 – Compuserve blocks access to over 200 sites that have explicit content. They do it to avoid issue with the German Government. The sites would be blocked until Feb 13, 1996 when all but 5 sites were restored.

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IBM 1420 Bank Transit System is released
Windows 7 Beta 1
Nintendo Wii runs Linux

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December 27, 2001: HotJobs Acquired by Yahoo

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2001 – Yahoo announces that they will acquire 98.6 percent of the outstanding stock to <a class="zem_slink" title="Yahoo! HotJobs” href=”http://HotJobs.yahoo.com” rel=”homepage”>HotJobs. They bought it for $10.50 / share for $436 million. They overbid Monster.com for the site. Ironically, Yahoo! ended up selling HotJobs to Monster on Feb 3, 2010 for $225 million.

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Charles Darwin embarks on his discovery mission on the HMS Beagle
<a class="zem_slink" title="Sun Microsystems” href=”http://www.sun.com/” rel=”homepage”>Sun Microsystems discontinues <a class="zem_slink" title="SunOS” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS” rel=”wikipedia”>SunOS v. 4.1.3 and 4.1.4
CERNET 2 is launched

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December 26, 2007: Apple Hits $200 a share

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2007 – With iTunes just signing a deal with FOX and their content for iTunes, stocks pushed upward to $200 a share. It was the first time Apple hit that barrier, and promptly dropped after. The company has been up and down, and in mid-2008 were at only $90 a share. However, after March 6th, 2008, the stock started to rise to the $400 / Share mark. Since then Apple climbed up to $700/share and then on June 9th, 2014 the stock was split 7-to-1. Currently, the stock is at $111 (technically $777 for those who purchased before the split).

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The National Machine Accountants Association is founded (later becomes AITP)
<a class="zem_slink" title="eGroups” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eGroups” rel=”wikipedia”>eGroups CEO Michael Klien and daughter were killed in a small plane accident
FM radio is patented

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December 20, 1996: Apple Buys NeXT

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1996 – Steve Jobs started Apple. When he left Apple, he started NeXT. When Apple started to fall, Steve Jobs came back. Of course, having 2 computer companies is not a good idea – So why not buy it out?That is what Apple did. In a $400 Million deal, they got a new OS and Steve Jobs. Of course, Jobs did not become CEO of Apple again – he reported to current CEO Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio.

NeXTstep OS would ultimately become Mac OS X.

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IBM 7040 and 7044 released
CIS wins $1 Billion from Spammers
Warner pulls music from YouTube

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December 6th, 1768: Encyclopedia Britannica Published

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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.

IBM 2420
Playstation sells 300,000
Apple Shares fall
Opera v.5 is released
.XXX goes online

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December 2, 1991: Apple Quicktime

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1991 – What was first a Multimedia add-on for System 6, Quicktime has spent 21 years being Apples’ proprietary player. The original version contained graphics, animation and Video codecs – What was refered to as “Road Pizza”. Since then Quicktime had developed on both Mac and Windows sides (starting in 1992). The current version is called Quicktime X but there are signs the technology is either moving a new direction or possibly retired.

The Virginia Internet Policy Act
AT&T pulls pay phones
Digg.com was not for sale

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November 25, 2002: Roxio Purchased Napster

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2002 – While in Bankruptcy since the following September, Roxio – along with the Private Media Group – came in and took over the $2.43 million dollar company. They took all logos and names and rebranded it “Napster 2.0”. This time, Napster was a pay site – merging technologies with Roxio Pressplay.The sale completed in 2003Ultimately, the company was purchased by Best Buy in 2008.

DVD Jon releases the crack to WMV9 codec
ICANN and the US Commerce Memorandum of Understanding
Playboy files suit against Rusty n Edie’s BBS

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November 23, 1889: First Commercial Jukebox

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1889 – Congratulations to the first commercial jukebox which was installed in San Francisco, CA. It was called the “Nickel-in-the-Slot”, and played wax cylinder records. Within 6 months it would earn $1,000. The word “Juke” – by the way – means ‘disorderly house’ – therefore this is a disorderly box of music.Put another nickel in – in the Nickelodean – All I want is having you – and Music, music, music.

Dr. Who first airs on the BBC in 1963
Nintendo releases the Gameboy color
Security hole in Gmail discovered

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