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July 23, 1886: First Car Ever,1903: First Model A Seventeen Years Later

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Back in 1886, Gottlieb Daimler gets into his new invention. It looks like a horse-drawn buggy, but it has a one cylinder 1.1 HP engine mounted in the back seat. The first car got up to 16 km/h
Seventeen years later, in 1903, Ford Motor company sells it’s first car. A Model A to Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago. It was a twin cylindar combustion engine.

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IBM goes Open-Source
Palm launches the Tungston T2
Commodore unveils the Amiga 1000

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July 19, 2000: Apple PowerMac G4 Cube

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Apple released a series of new items in 2000, including a new “button less” mouse, iMovie2 and the iMac DV series with the PowerPC G3 processor. But they also introduced the PowerMac G4 Cube – a 450 or 500 MHz computer with Velocity Engine – A Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) which operates concurrently with existing integer and floating-point. Add with it 2 Firewire ports, 10/100BaseT Ethernet, Modem and 20 GB hard drive and you had a serious system at the time. The cube could not take cards because of it’s case sizes and the DVD drive was located on the top of the device. It was designed with a case that made it possible to eliminate the fan.

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Palm introduces the IIIe
The iPhone app “cannabis” is released
TWA introduces in-flight movies

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July 16, 1995: Amazon Goes Online, Happy Birthday Orville Redenbacker

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 17 years, aggregator, amazon, Amazon.com, amp, bellevue washington, business model, ceo, computer, computer models, creative analogies, dan bricklin, day in tech history, e reader, fundamental mechanisms, Geek, Google, happy birthday, iTunes, July, kindle fire, michael dell, orville redenbacher, orville redenbacker, Podcast, product on the web, resellers, RSS, sparc machines, stitcher, technology history, touch screen, twitter, woot, zappos 0 Comments July 16, 2018

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Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. That was the first book Amazon sold on July 16th, 1995. The company ran from their garage in Bellevue, Washington. 3 SPARC machines was all they had and a cool little mechanism that rung a bell every time a book was sold. The business model was set to make profit in 5 years. It was a good thing, because that may have helped it survive the dot com bubble.

17 years later, Amazon is going strong. Purchases of companies like WOOT! and Zappos!, along with the introduction of Kindle e-reader and Amazon Prime, the company is one of the largest resellers of product on the web.

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Happy Birthday Dan Bricklin and Orville Redenbacher
Michael Dell steps aside as CEO
Yahoo! Hires Marissa Mayer as CEO

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July 15, 2006: Twitter Launches,1928: Enigma Machine Introduced

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2006 – Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass and Evan Williams launch this 140 character “What are you doing” social network. The group first started production in March of 2006, but it launched on the 15th. Currently, over 200 million users are on Twitter.

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Microsoft releases C#
iTunes 8.2.1 blocks Palm Pre
Nintendo launches the “Famicon”
“Gangnam Style” by Psy releases

The Enigma machine was the first electronic cipher machines, producing encrypted messages. German engineer Arthur Scherbius created this device in 1928 to turn a message into a jumble of code. Therefore, if the message got in the wrong hands, it could not be read.Of course, though time, the encryption was broken by British intelligence. However, it proved that we could put a level of security to a simple text message. Something we continue to strive for even today.

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July 14, 2011: Spotify Comes to the US

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2011 – The US waited for this Swedish music streaming service, and on this day, we got it. Founded in 2006, Spotify announced after exhaustive negotiation with four major US record labels, they were given the green light to launch. It came with much praise from the online community. Since then, Spotify was integrated with Facebook, and launched their own apps and app finder.

Meanwhile, in 1995, after 15 million lines and 3 years of programming,Microsoft announces Windows 95 (a.k.a. Chicago) was deemed “Golden“.That meant Microsoft could not make any more fixes or adjustments would be made until it’s release on August 24th. Of course, Microsoft Windows 95 was their first 32-bit operating system and considered a major game changer in the world of computers.

Geekazine Fact: Jeffrey Powers got his IT career as a support agent for Windows 95.

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386BSD is released
A girl falls into a manhole while texting
PalmOne changes back to Palm

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July 12, 1960: Etch A Sketch Debuts

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It is the famous drawing tool that became a cult classic. A toy that is as collectable as the LEGO or Star Wars memorabilia. The Etch A Sketch was first brought out on shelves in 1960. Of course, since then it has taken its popularity to many levels. Some people create masterpieces, while others just play with the dials. I have an Etch A Sketch attached to a pencil, but its size is about the same as an iPad or other Tablet.

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IBM 3663 released
Atari is approved to merge with JTS
100 millionth iTunes song

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July 7, 1994: I3enc Released (a.k.a. MP3)

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July 7, 1994: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits released MP3 format

1994 – The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) released I3enc – otherwise known at MP3. This is also known as MPEG-3. The MP3 moniker did not get chosen until July 14, 1995 (it was .bit before .mp3). MP3 is still licensed to Fraunhofer Institute – therefore, you must pay a license fee to use the popular .mp3 format. There is an open source format .ogg vorbis.

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PSOne is released
TI-99/4a is demonstrated on the Mike Douglas Show
A Legal version of Scrabble hits Facebook

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July 1, 2011: HP TouchPad, 2000: Trillian, IM2 Released

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2011 – HP announced the TouchPad, their entry into the tablet market. Using the WebOS software they purchased from Palm back in 2010, the TouchPad introduced some new features, including the ability to sync with the upcoming Pre3 phone by touching the two together. However, the tablet was squashed in September by then CEO Leo Apetheker.

Since then, HP abandoned WebOS, making it open source. They have put out another tablet in early 2013 using the Android software.

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2000 – Remember the days of the Instant Messenger? Yahoo IM or Microsoft Messenger, ICQ, AIM and many more. In 2000, a company called Trillian tried to capitalize on the market by making a IM client that could connect to all of these instant messengers. Only problem is that Yahoo! and Microsoft didn’t want to allow this to happen. They tried to block the software. However, new patches were installed and Trillian was able to access the messengers again.

Trillian (www.trillian.im) is still in existance to this day. You can download for your Mac, PC, Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and more!

Funny thing, in 2004, Microsoft put out a multiple – IM software called IM2.

FORTRAN is released
BASIC ships
The first X-Ray photograph

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