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December 18, 1926: Photon is Coined

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1926 – The term “Photon” is coined. Of course a photon is the basic “unit” of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Newton Lewis is the one who coins the term.

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May 22, 1973: Ethernet is Proposed

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1973 – Robert Metcalfe writes a thirteen-page memo describing a new type of data transmission method. His memo was entitled “Ether Acquisition”, which would connect Hawaii’s ALOHA Network.

Alto Ethernet was born on paper, but didn’t see operation until November 11, 1973 when it was implemented.

Metcalfe was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996 for his work on inventing Ethernet. He was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.

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March 6, 1986: First Computer Sting Operation

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 0306, Adhesive, aggregator, apple, attributes, dirt, Food coloring, goo, hewlett packard, historical events, history, interesting facts, james wright, michelangelo virus, Microsoft, Newton, newton protest, pet hair, peter hodgson, plastic egg, polymer, protest march, silly putty, thinking putty, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War II 0 Comments March 5, 2019

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EDITOR NOTE: I received documentation that shows this event actually happened on March 5th. This will be corrected on Wikazine.com and changed for next year.

1986 – Fremont, California police set up a BBS called “Phoenix Fortress” in order to do one thing – catch cyber criminals. Sgt. Dan Pasquale was the online contact with the handle “Revenger”. He continued to stay in contact with hundreds of of hackers and pirates in seven states through the BBS until they collected enough information to make an arrest.

Stolen credit card numbers, long distance codes, selling weapons, hacking information and more were divulged through this BBS. A lot of the arrests were misdemeanors and many arrests were made against teens – ranging from 15 to 19 years old.

Those who were convicted lost their computer equipment. The original warrants were issued on Feb 26th, so some arrests may have been made in the first few days of March.

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February 27, 1998: Apple Discontinued Newton

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February 27, 1998: Apple Newton is discontinued[/caption]

1998 – After Steve Jobs takes the role of Acting CEO (After the firing of Gil Amelio) he decides to trim some of the product fat. In result, the Apple Newton – it’s attempt at a PDA – was officially discontinued after 5 years. But not all was lost off this, for the mobile applications got shifted into their other Mac OS technologies. Cyberdog and OpenDOC were two other Apple programs that were discontinued after Jobs took the helm again.

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December 18, 1926: Photon is Coined

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, Bristol, ceo, coins, dan hesse, day in tech history, electromagnetic radiation, Erwin Schrödinger, Newton, Photon, Physical Review Letters, Podcast, Quantum computer, Quantum mechanics, sprint, technology history, University of Calgary, University of Geneva 0 Comments December 17, 2018

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1926 – The term “Photon” is coined. Of course a photon is the basic “unit” of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Newton Lewis is the one who coins the term.

HTML 4.0 is published
.au goes back to auDA
Dan Hesse becomes CEO of Sprint.

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May 22, 1973: Ethernet is Proposed

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine adobe, ALOHAnet, apple, arcades, Computing, docks with space station, Ethernet, game, geek history, Google, history, illustrator 7, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, laser printer, man, man machine, movie theater, ms pac man, namco, Newton, north america, pac-man, Podcast, popular games, Released, Robert Metcalfe, ships, spin offs, stitcher, Technology, technology history, Tokyo, Tōru Iwatani, video game, Xerox Alto 0 Comments May 22, 2018

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Alto Ethernet was born on paper, but didn’t see operation until November 11, 1973 when it was implemented.

Metcalfe was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996 for his work on inventing Ethernet. He was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Robert Metcalfe describes a new device called the Laser Printer
Adobe ships Illustrator 7.0
Apple splits Newton into it’s own division
SpaceX Launched and docks with Space Station

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March 6, 1986: First Computer Sting Operation

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine Adhesive, aggregator, apple, attributes, dirt, Food coloring, goo, hewlett packard, historical events, history, interesting facts, james wright, michelangelo virus, Microsoft, Newton, newton protest, pet hair, peter hodgson, plastic egg, polymer, protest march, silly putty, thinking putty, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War II 1 Comment March 6, 2018

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EDITOR NOTE: I received documentation that shows this event actually happened on March 5th. This will be corrected on Wikazine.com and changed for next year.

Those who were convicted lost their computer equipment. The original warrants were issued on Feb 26th, so some arrests may have been made in the first few days of March.

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Apple vs. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
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The Bring Newton Back Protest

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May 22, 1980: First Pac-Man Video Game Installed

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1980 – The first Pac-Man machine was installed. Namco installed the first Pac-Man machine in a movie theater in Tokyo. Created by Toru Iwatani, the game has been one of the most popular in Arcades around the world. Of course, Pac-Man was one of the most popular games in history and created many spin-offs including Ms. Pac-Man. Pac-Man was released in North America October of that year.

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