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March 5, 1975: Homebrew Computer Club is Established

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1975 – Gordon French and Fred Moore put together the first Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, CA. The group was put together to discuss the Altair home kit, as well as talk about building computers in general. Of course, the most important meeting was Steve Wozniak who brought the first Apple computer, meeting Steve Jobs.

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

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March 4, 1956: IBM Purchased Ferrite Core Memory Patent

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, core memory, cray 1, ferrite cores, historical events, IBM, iTunes, japan march, magnetic core memory, million, million dollars, patent issue, playstation, playstation 2, RSS, sony, stitcher, supercomputer, twitter, wang, wang laboratories, world wide web 0 Comments March 4, 2016

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1956 – An Wang patented Ferrite Core Memory on May 17, 1955. However, IBM used Ferrite cores in their systems and the patent issue started an interesting legal battle. One that ended in IBM purchasing the patent outright for “Several million dollars”. Wang took the funds to build up Wang Laboratories.

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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

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March 1, 1976: Steve Wozniak Builds His First Computer

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, apple, apple 1, apple confidential, Apple II, computer club, computer motherboard, definitive history, first computer, hewlett packard, history of the world, homebrew club, IPO, iTunes, lisp programmers, march 1, msnbc, newsvine, Palm Inc., RSS, segway, selling computers, Steve Job, steve jobs, steve wozniak, technology history, Wheels of Zeus, woz 0 Comments March 1, 2016

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1976 – Steve Wozniak, an employee at Hewlett Packard (at the time), builds his first computer motherboard. He showed it off at the Homebrew club, where he was inspired. Steve Jobs meets up with Woz, where he convinces him to keep the design (not to sell it). They will then join up to create the Apple 1 computer.

Of course, that computer only sold 200, but it was the segway to the Apple II, one of the best selling computers of all time.Read more from the book: Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company

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

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July 23, 1886: First Car Ever

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1903 ford, aggregator, amiga 1000, back seat, Chicago, combustion engine, commodore, cylindar, day in tech history, first car, first model, ford motor, ford motor company, gottlieb daimler, horse drawn buggy, hp, hp engine, IBM, iTunes, new invention, open source, palm, pfenning, Podcast, RSS, seventeen years, stitcher, technology history, tungston t2, twitter 0 Comments July 23, 2015

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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 16, 1995: Amazon Goes Online

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, 2015

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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.

20 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, 1928: Enigma Machine Introduced

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine alan turing, arthur, Arthur Scherbius, Biz Stone, british intelligence, cipher, day in tech history, encrypted messages, encryption, Enigma machine, evan williams, german engineer, iTunes, Jack Dorsey, jumble, launches, nintendo, noah, noah glass, palm, Podcast, scherbius, social network, technology history, text message, twitter, wrong hands 0 Comments July 15, 2015

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

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July 14, 1995: Microsoft Announces Windows 95

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 3 years, apps, bit operating system, Chicago, course microsoft windows, day in tech history, Facebook, game, iTunes, july 14, manhole, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, microsoft windows 95, negotiation, palm, Palm Inc., Podcast, product ships, programming microsoft, record labels, RSS, source code, Spotify, stitcher, streaming service, swedish music, technology history, twitter, Windows 8, windows 95, world of computers 0 Comments July 14, 2015

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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.

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.

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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 1, 2000: Trillian, IM2 Released

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine AOL Instant Messenger, blackberry, day in tech history, existance, fortran, funny thing, icq, Instant messaging, instant messanger, instant messenger, instant messengers, iPhone, iTunes, july 1, leo, mac pc, messanger icq aim, messenger icq, Microsoft, microsoft messanger, microsoft messenger, new features, new patches, photograph, Podcast, RSS, stitcher, sync, tablet market, technology history, Trillian, webos, x ray, Yahoo, Yahoo Messenger 0 Comments July 1, 2015

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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.

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FORTRAN is released
BASIC ships
The first X-Ray photograph

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