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January 20, 1885: the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway Patent

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1885 – Sounding like anything but a roller coaster, the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway was the first American designed amusement coaster designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson. Only 5 cents to ride, the Switchback was a simple coaster that took you about 600 feet to the next tower at six miles per hour. It had a height of 50 feet and a drop of 43 feet.

It opened on June 16, 1884 and eventually was replaced. But on this day, the roller coaster saw one of its first patents from this ride.

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Robert and Carleen Thomas (Amature Action BBS) were raided
Microsoft market value surpasses IBM for the first time to $26.78 Billion
Microsoft sells all shares of Comcast

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December 15, 1983: AltaVista Launches

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 20th century, advertisement, advertising company, aggregator, apple macintosh, c90, channel 11, chiat day advertising, citizen, computer, computer company, day in tech history, historical events, Idaho, KMVT, mac, macintosh, Podcast, pownce, Super Bowl advertising, Super Bowl XVIII, superbowl, superbowl ad, technology history, Twin Falls, twin falls idaho, twitter 0 Comments December 14, 2018

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1995 – At the turn of the Internet age, researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation, led by Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier and Michael Burrows, created a web crawler and indexer algorithm. The web program was launched on December 15th and called “AltaVista”. The name was chosen because of the surrounds of their company in Palo Alto, CA.

The original name was altavista.digital.com and used a multi-threaded crawler (Scooter). The back-end was running on advanced hardware, therefore it could gather information faster than any other web crawling software out there.

AltaVista was one of the top search engines out there until Google overtook them all. Ultimately, in 2003 AltaVista was purchased by Yahoo! who continued to run it until 2013 when it was shut down.

1983 – There is some debate whether this happened on Dec. 15h or 31st. If you were a citizen of Twin Falls, Idaho and up at 1 AM watching KMVT channel 11, then you got a treat. You saw an ad that changed the Superbowl. You saw an ad that changed a computer company.That’s right. You were the first to see the famous 1984 Superbowl Advertisement for Apple Macintosh. The Chiat/Day advertising company pre-ran ads to make sure they would be acceptable for a big release. Therefore, 1 AM on Thursday, December 15th – chances of people catching the ad are slim.

Of course, the ad went on to be one of the most influential ads of the 20th century and turned Superbowl commercials into a hot commodity. Interesting note: Apple didn’t put a commercial in the 2012 Superbowl.

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ISO C90 is released
Fortran 95 is released
Twitter rival Pownce closes down after sale to Six Apart

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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.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 19

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

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July 3, 1991: Apple, IBM Create Pact on Power PC Mac

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, amigaos, AOL, apple, apple ibm, architecture processor, day in tech history, enterprise systems, first automobile, historical events, IBM, john sculley, Karl Benz, mac, nintendo wii, pact, performance optimization with enhanced risc, Podcast, power pc chip, powerpc, risc, risc architecture, sony playstation, sony playstation nintendo, steve jobs, steve jobs interview, technology history, use computers, Windows, windows machines, xbox 360 0 Comments July 3, 2018

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1991 – IBM’s Jim Cannavino met with John Sculley of Apple. They worked out a deal and signed a sharing agreement. It would allow Mac to integrate with IBM enterprise systems. It would also allow Apple to use the PowerPC with their RISC based Mac to work together.Power PC stands for Performance Optimization with Enhanced RISC. It is also known as PPC. The RISC architecture processor was first meant for personal computers, yet embedded machines adopted them for use. Computers such as the AmigaOS 4, POSIX, BeOS all used PowerPC. Even Windows machines used PowerPC for their NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 OS.

Power PC came in 32 and 64 bit versions. Sony Playstation, Nintendo Wii and XBox 360 all have PowerPC inside.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 3

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1886 – Karl Benz drives the first automobile
2000 -AOL completes Mapquest Acquisition
2009 – McAffee anitvirus wipes out some Windows Machines
2012 – A lost Steve Jobs interview was discovered and posted to iTunes

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May 6, 2004: Paint.Net Graphics Editor

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1mb, apple, cd drive, computer, Creative Commons, first computer, floppy drive, Google, Hertz, iMac, iMac G3, imac g3 computer, imac mouse, l2 cache, mac, mac keyboard, mac line, Mac OS, mac os 8, MIT License, NET framework, paint, raster graphics editor, return, Rick Brewster, school project, sierra network, software, speakers, sprint nextel, steve jobs, stitcher, The Sierra Network, USB, usb ports, Washington State University, WiMAX 0 Comments May 6, 2018

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Paint.Net

2004 – A free raster graphics editor, Paint.NET was created and released by Rick Brewster as a school project at Washington State University. The software was released under the MIT License and was at first Open Source. After multiple cases of plagiarism, the software moved to Creative Commons, then in version 3.36 was turned to closed-source (but still free).

The latest version of Paint.Net 4.0 uses NET framework 4.5.1.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for May 6

The Sierra Network is announced
Paint.NET v.1 is released
Sprint, Nextel and Clearwire announce WiMAX under the Clearwire name

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May 4, 2008: Microsoft Pulls Yahoo Offer

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine AOL, apple macs, Arts, attempt, carl icahn, carol bartz, college roomies from hell, glitch, jerry yang, launches, mac, Microsoft, penny arcade, player, Player versus player, Player vs Player, pvp, self publishing, service microsoft, stitcher, virus hits, web comics, Website, world wide web, Yahoo 0 Comments May 4, 2018

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2008 – After months of bid negotiations and Yahoo’s Jerry Yang saying “No”, Microsoft decided to take their $50 billion dollar offer off the table. Although Microsoft pulled the offer, it was not the last time we would hear about it. Carl Icahn would lead a charge to try and re-instate selling or have Yang off the Yahoo board.

On February 1st, 2008, Microsoft offered $45 billion ($31 / share) to purchase Yahoo! Ultimately, in 2009 Carol Bartz sold Yahoo search technology to Microsoft in a 10-year agreement, which (in an updated agreement on April 2015) may be terminated on October 1st, 2015.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for May 4

“I Love You” virus hits computers
AOL repairs glitch so Apple Macs can use the service

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March 11, 2007: The Move of Daylight Savings Time

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, apple, apple macintosh, Benjamin Franklin, cebit, day in tech history, Daylight Savings Time, digital audio player, digital mp3, digital music player, docking station, eiger, eiger labs, Energy Policy Act of 2005, favorite songs, historical events, Information systems, iTunes, mac, mac iicx, macintosh, march 11, MP3, mp3 player, mpman, Multimedia, Podcast, Portable media player, rechargable battery, rio pmp300, solid state, south korean company, technology history 0 Comments March 11, 2018

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2007 – The Energy Policy Act of 2005 ammended Daylight savings time 3 weeks . The theory was to move clocks forward 1 hour 3 weeks earlier than usual and Fall back in the first week of November (instead of last week in October). From a previous study, it was concluded this change would save households 1% of energy each day of DST.

The history of Daylight Savings Time dates back to Benjamin Franklin. He noticed people had their shutters closed to keep out the morning sun, then burned more candles in the evening. Through time he convinced others to change the times so people would get up earlier and enjoy the summer sunlight.

With more energy efficient devices, some have debated that Daylight Savings Time is not needed anymore. However, reports state that when we spring forward, our energy bill reduces 2-4%.

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Apple Macintosh discontinues the Mac IIcx
HP acquires TrueLogica
iTunes 8.1 is released
iPad2 Released

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May 6, 1998: iMac G3 Introduced

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1998 – Steve Jobs, just fresh out of his return to Apple, announces one of the many changes in the Mac line. The iMac G3 computer. The iMac was the first computer to offer USB ports as a standard. The “All in one” computer had a front loading CD drive – but no floppy drive, built in speakers and came in 13 different colors. The iMac mouse was a disc shaped device with one button. A standard Mac keyboard was also included.

The G3 came with a Power PC 233 to 333 MHz. The L2 cache could run at 512 or 1MB and came loaded with Mac OS 8.1. The price was given of $1,299 and Jobs expected this computer to be out within 90 days, although it didn’t officially start shipping until August 15th.

The G3 was discontinued on March 18, 2003.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for May 6

The Sierra Network is announced
Paint.NET v.1 is released
Sprint, Nextel and Clearwire announce WiMAX under the Clearwire name

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