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November 6, 1995: Voodoo 3D Accelerator

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1995 – 3DFX releases the much anticipated Voodoo 3D acceleerator. QuakeGL becomes the first game using the Voodoo 3D. Hi-resolution rendering was it’s advantage. 3Dfx would continue to make the VooDoo until NVidia acquires the rights. 3Dfx would ultimately file for bankruptcy in 2002.

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Lizzybee.com becomes the 3 millionth domain name
The first Walkman Phone
Hewlett Packard files for IPO

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May 29, 1999: Five Million Domain Names Registered

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1999 – Believeinkids.com became the five-millionth domain name in the world. At the time, a domain name cost $70 for the first year, $35 a year thereafter.

The domain name was abandoned and is still available to this day.

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Vim 4.0 is released
IEEE 1394 officially becomes “Firewire”

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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November 6, 1995: Voodoo 3D Accelerator

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Lizzybee.com becomes the 3 millionth domain name
The first Walkman Phone
Hewlett Packard files for IPO

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May 29, 1999: Five Million Domain Names

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine apple, caption, ceo, comcast, Cox Communications, domain name, DVD, firewire, geek history, Google, history, IEEE 1394, initial public offering, IPO, mail service, millionth, mobile solution, Motley Fool, netflix, Podcast, Qwikster, Reed Hastings, stitcher, stock price, Streaming media, technology history, Ted Sarandos, Vim 0 Comments May 29, 2018

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1999 – Believeinkids.com became the five-millionth domain name in the world. At the time, a domain name cost $70 for the first year, $35 a year thereafter.

The domain name was abandoned and is still available to this day.

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Vim 4.0 is released
IEEE 1394 officially becomes “Firewire”

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March 9, 2008: The Zuckerberg, Lacy Incident

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, apple, apple ibm, day in tech history, domain name, Facebook, group sponsor, historical events, IBM, iTunes, Mark Zuckerberg, million, millionth, motorola, newscorp, Podcast, poweropen association, poweropen environment, powerpc platforms, RSS, sarah lacy, South by Southwest, sxsw, technology history, today in technology history, twitter, unix, Yahoo 0 Comments March 9, 2018

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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.

Wikazine – Full show notes for March 9

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

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May 29, 2002: Netflix Filed IPO

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2002– Netflix, the rental movie-by-mail service, initiated their Public offering. They sold 5,500,000 starting at $15 a share. They sold an additional 825,000 the next day. Of course, the Netflix stock has fluctuated over the years, including 2011, when CEO Reed Hastings tried to split their online and DVD rentals, then announced Qwikster – with hopes to sell that side of the company. Of course, he retracted that statement, but not before loosing 2/3 of stock price (was at $291 in 2011, now at $70 / share).

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Vim 4.0 is released
believeinkids.com became the 5 millionth domain name
IEEE 1394 officially becomes “Firewire”

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March 9, 1993: PowerOpen Environment

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1993 – The PowerOpen Association is formed to conform to the PowerOpen environment, which is an open standard for running forms of Unix on PowerPC platforms. Apple, IBM, Motorola are all in on this group.

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IBM 2260
Four-millionth domain name
Newscorp says no to counter offer on Yahoo
2008 – Sarah Lacy’s SXSW interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg