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June 4, 1896: Ford Test Drives First Car

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Ford Quadricycle — June 4, 1896: Henry Ford tests the Quadricycle

1896 – Henry Ford gets ready to test drive the first Quadricycle (a.k.a. Car). Only one problem – They didn’t make the garage door big enough. Out comes the Ax – A couple chops and a wider door was created. The car ran 2 speed, but could not go in reverse.

It’s all in the book – the ford century

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Patent for DRAM
Nintendo introduced the Game Boy
Packard Bell and NEC merge

Commodore/ Day in Tech History

June 3, 2009: Core i7 “Nehalem”

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2009 – Intel introduces the Nehalem Core i7 processor, code-named “Lynnfield”. The i7-950 and 975 models are 4-core processors with a speed of 3.06 GHz. The processor ran 64-bit instruction set and could take up to 24 GB of RAM at DDR3 800/1066. Price: $294.00

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Nintendo sues Lewis Galoob over the Game Genie
AT&T offers Wi-Fi at Starbucks
Microsoft releases “Nehalem” Core i7

Apple/ Commodore/ Day in Tech History

April 16, 1977: Debut of Apple II, Commodore Pet

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1977 – Apple Computer shows off the Apple II home computer at the West Coast Computer Faire. The $1,298 Home machine featured a 6502 processor, 4kb RAM 16kb ROM and for the first time – A home computer with color graphics. Apple II was the most recognizable home and school computers in the 80s and 90s. I personally would play Ultima III and Ultima IV on an Apple II after school. The final Apple II rolled off the line on October 15, 1993.

Commodore also unveiled the PET 2001, which is a full-featured computer. It also had the 6502 processor, 4kb RAM, 14kb ROM and a cassette drive for $595. The Pet was replaced by the PET 2001-N in 1979.

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Nintendo sues for copyright infringement
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 releases
Ashton Kutcher Joins Twitter.

Day in Tech History/ Geek

February 14, 2005: YouTube is Founded

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Happy Valentines Day!

2005 – YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is established by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The website was registered on February 14th, and didn’t officially launch until November 2005. Google bought out YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 Billion. With an upload every 20 minutes and over 1 Billion views a day, YouTube has definitely grown to a video powerhouse.

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Texas Instruments makes the first “micro on a chip”
Lotus Symphony
Nintendo releases the Game Boy Advanced SP

Day in Tech History/ Geek

November 23, 1889: First Commercial Jukebox

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1889 – Congratulations to the first commercial jukebox which was installed in San Francisco, CA. It was called the “Nickel-in-the-Slot”, and played wax cylinder records. Within 6 months it would earn $1,000. The word “Juke” – by the way – means ‘disorderly house’ – therefore this is a disorderly box of music.Put another nickel in – in the Nickelodean – All I want is having you – and Music, music, music.

Dr. Who first airs on the BBC in 1963
Nintendo releases the Gameboy color
Security hole in Gmail discovered

Day in Tech History/ Internet

November 21, 2008: Justin.TV Online Suicide of Abraham Biggs

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2008 – Some watched in horror. Others watched thinking it was a joke. Still, Abraham Biggs was a troubled teen. He decided to end it all and do it in front of a live audience. He got on Justin.tv and told people he was taking sleeping pills. After a little while, he went to lie on his bed while the chat room continued on. Some posts encouraging him to continue were seen. Of course, in the end, Abraham Biggs could not be saved.

Justin.tv closed its doors in August 2014

The First ARPANET link is established
Toy Story is released to audiences. It is the first feature film created by computer animation
Nintendo releases the DS system

Day in Tech History/ Mozilla

September 23, 1999: Blogger Debuts

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1999 – Its considered the one of the earliest publishing tools, Blogger personal website publishing system by Pyra Labs was released. The software was co-founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. The Blogger code was re-written in 2002 and in 2003, Google purchased Pyra for an undisclosed sum.

2002 – Mozilla releases Phoenix 0.1, the first release of what will become Firefox. The browser will change names because of trademark issues with Phoenix technologies. The initial first release of Firefox, though will be released on Nov. 9, 2004

Yahoo Instant Messanger 9.0
Morse Code alphabet is invented
Nintendo Koppai is founded (later renamed to Nintendo)

Day in Tech History/ Twitter

July 15, 2006: Twitter Launches,1928: Enigma Machine Introduced

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2006 – Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass and Evan Williams launch this 140 character “What are you doing” social network. The group first started production in March of 2006, but it launched on the 15th. Currently, over 200 million users are on Twitter.

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

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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