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March 10, 2002: Sony Clié Announced

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2003 – The Sony Clié PEG-NR70 and PEG-NR70V handheld computers were released. These were 66 MHz PDA units running the Motorola Dragonball SuperVZ processor with a 16-bit color screen and running Palm OS 4.1.

The devices would go on sale on April 13, 2002 for $600

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Richard D Kenadek is sentenced in the Davy Jones Locker BBS case
Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are launched into space
Google releases Android 1.1

Lacy and Zuckerberg at SXSW - via BrianSolis.com

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March 9, 2008: The Zuckerberg, Lacy Incident

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2008 – SXSW Interactive keynote, Mark Zuckerberg was being interviewed by journalist Sarah Lacy. There was a lot of anticipation for the event, but things went south quickly (no pun intended). During the interview, Lacy starts talking about these books Zuckerberg writes into but never formally asked him about it. She gets a little befuddled because Mark was not picking up the ball.

She verbally notes the stall, which Zuckerberg replies “You have to ask a question.” That brought the audience into the conversation with a standing ovation. Trying to continue, Lacy finally made a question out of this story with Mark giving a 2 minute answer and not divulging that he “burned those books”.

Lacy then went to the audience for affirmation of the book burning. However, she instead got the comment “Talk about something interesting!”

Sarah responded with “Try to do what I do for a living. It’s not as easy as it looks…” That brought the audience into the conversation.

After that, people took to Twitter, wondering why Lacy wasn’t asking questions.

Finally, they ended the keynote with Lacy saying “I’m sorry to torture you for an hour.” The comment was not well-received.

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IBM 2260
Four-millionth domain name
Newscorp says no to counter offer on Yahoo
PowerOpen Association

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March 7, 1996: Pluto Photos Released

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine Android, atlantic city, Atlantic City New Jersey, blackberry, Board game, board games, bratz, charles darrow, day in tech history, game monopoly, historical events, household name, iPhone, iTunes, landlord, magie, monopoly, monopoly board, monopoly game, nasa, parker brothers, playstation 2, Podcast, revisions, RSS, star wars monopoly, technology history, thun, twitter, unofficial rules, wittman 0 Comments March 7, 2018

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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.

Computer/ Day in Tech History

March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 launched

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1981 – The successor to the Sinclair ZX80, Britain’s most popular home computer – the Sinclair ZX81 was launched by Sinclair Research – a Timex Corporation. It was a popular computer mostly because of the price – £69.95 ($99) or £49.95 in kit form.

The cheap computer had only a fraction of components that an Apple II did. Yet the Apple II was around £699. The Sinclair ZX81 only had 1 kB RAM with option to upgrade to 16 kB. The graphics were only in monochrome and the Z80 CPU ran at 3.25 MHz – 8-bit. This was actually faster than the Apple II processor (1.08 MHz) and only outbested by the IBM PC (4.77 MHz at 16-bit). The TI99/4A procesor was a 3Mhz 16-bit chip.

You could get a tape drive and printer, bringing the system up to about £160 ($250). The computer was succeeded by the ZX Spectrum.

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WMS Industries acquires Atari
President Barak Obama appoints Vivek Kundra as CTO

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March 4, 2000: Sony Playstation 2

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2000 – The Playstation 2 was released in Japan to rival Sega’s Dreamcast system and Nintendo Game Cube. The Playstation 2 had an “Emotion Engine” processor at 294 MHz (later 299 MHz with 128 bit capabilities), 32 MB RAMBUS memory, Graphics synth at 147 MHz, USB 1.1, Ethernet connection and 2 memory card slots which could accept up to 8 MB cards.

The Sony Playstation 2 didn’t hit the US market until October, 2000. Some say PS2 caused Dreamcast to falter and eventually close down. Many believed this was because the PS2 was backwards compatible with games from the original Playstation.

Sony’s game console sat unopposed for 6 months after Dreamcast stopped production. That is, until Nintendo released the Game Cube and Microsoft released XBox.

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The first Cray-1 Supercomputer is shipped
The World Wide Web goes online (in primitave form)
Sony releases the Playstation 2 in Japan

Day in Tech History/ Geek

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.

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

Day in Tech History/ Geek

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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