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June 23, 1983: First successful test of the Domain Name System (DNS)

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1983 – Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel run the first successful test of the distributed Domain Name System (DNS). This automated process was to take over failing Arpanet and CSnet protocols because those relied on address books.

DNS uses a hierarchical distributed naming system for the Internet or any private network. It associates the domain names with numerical IP addresses.

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Nintendo 64 is launched
The Typewriter is patented

Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM)

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June 21, 1948: Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine Runs First Program

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1948 – What was first expected to be a practical use computer, the SSEM, or Small-Scale Experimental Machine became the first stored-program computer. Basically, it stores program instructions into it’s electronic memory. This 32-bit word length, cathode-ray tube computer was designed to only run subtraction and negation through hardware. Other functions could be run, but only through software.

The first program was run on this day. It was written by Professor Tom Kilbum. The seventeen-instruction stored-program took 52 minutes to run. The program was tasked to find the highest proper factor of 2¹⁸ (262,144).

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Start of the Summer Solstice
Congress Robot Caucus
SSEM runs first program
Final Cut Pro 10 was released to very negative reviews
Google and Nest Acquire Dropcam

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June 11, 1980: Steve Ballmer Joins Microsoft

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1980 – Otherwise known as “The 24th Man” (to join Microsoft, that is), Steve Ballmer came on as Microsoft’s first Business Manager. He made only $50k and stock options. Of course 30 years later, Steve succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of the Redmond based software company.

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Speak and Spell debuts

Compaq purchases DEC for $9 million

The first cameraphone photo – Philippe Kahn taking a picture of his newborn daughter

Apple releases Safari for Windows

1st generation iPhone gets put on the Obsolete list

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1973: The First Cell Phone Call Made

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1973 – Martin Cooper made the first handheld cellular phone call in public. Walking down the streets of New York, Cooper – the General Manager of Motorola’s communication system division – talked on the phone. It’s not the first cellular call since car phones have been around before then. The phone is also known as the “Brick” cell phone.

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Atari declares today Pac Man Day
The first Telnet specification
IBM introduces the PC Convertable

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January 24, 1948: IBM Dedicated Poppa in New York City

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1948 – At IBM world headquarters, IBM dedicated the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC). The machine – otherwise known as Poppa – was the first computer to combine electronic computation with stored instruction. The 13,500 vacuum tube computer contained 21,000 relays.

The 1,800 square foot computer room had a large glass window so the public could see the building of Poppa. IBM created a raised floor for this computer so cables could run underneath and would not be tripped on. This was all in promotion to compete with the ENIAC computer.

The first calculations were of the positions of the Moon and planets. This would eventually be used by NASA to plot the course of the 1969 Apollo flight.

The SSEC was decommissioned in 1952.

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Walt Disney purchases Pixar
Microwave Oven is patented
Gary McKinnon won right to judicial review
Apple introduces a floppy drive for the Lisa computer

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January 17, 2012: Jerry Yang Resignes from Yahoo!

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2012 – Yahoo! had some turbulent times from 2007 when founder Jerry Yang was CEO. Of course the big debacle being the Microsoft bid, which took over 9 months to settle with Carl Icahn being a major instigator.

Add to that the 2007 incident of the arrest of Shi Tao and Yahoo’s stance. Tao was arrested for divulging trade secrets and Yang put out a statement saying “We have to comply with Chinese Law”.

During this whole time, Yahoo shares were declining. Yang was replaced in 2009 by Carol Bartz, but remained on the board until 2012 when Yang fully resigned from all positions in the company.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

The infamous “Apple Ad” shows up in movie theatres
IBM charged with the Sherman Antitrust Act
Apple reaches an “out of court” settlement with NeXT
In protest to SOPA, many websites blacked out their web pages.

SAGE - Semi-Automatic Ground Environment

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January 16, 1956: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment – SAGE Disclosed to Public

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1956 – The U.S. Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) was disclosed to the public. SAGE is a computer that connected hundreds of radar stations in the US and Canada as a one-stop monitoring of the sky. SAGE was commissioned and developed by MIT.

The project started in 1950 and SAGE became fully operational on June 26, 1958 (DC-01). By 1980, many SAGE sites were fully dismantled as other airborne detection systems took its place.

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Burger King De-Friend promotion on Facebook
Patrick Spence hands the Renegade BBS to Jeff Herrings
Lotus v. Borland

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January 15, 1990: AT&T Reboots

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1990 – AT&T suffers the oddest outage nationwide. A switch in New York crashed, then rebooted. This caused the other switches linked to the New York switch to also reboot. The cascade continued on until all 114 switches were rebooting on 6 second intervals.

The continued failure lasted for 9 hours, leaving 60,000 customers without long distance calling. The problem was resolved when engineers found a bug in the latest update dealing with 4ESS long distance switches. They applied a patch which stopped the crash-reboot cycle.

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Intel acquires Xircom
Wikipedia is launched
Coveritlive and Twitter goes down for Steve Jobs Keynote

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