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January 15, 1990: The AT&T Reboot

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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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December 9, 2002: Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) Trial

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 1209, aggregator, day in tech history, del icio us, DVD, dvd jon, Geek, Jon, jon lech johansen, Los Angeles, Microsoft, microsoft launches windows, pioneer, Plea, Podcast, reverse engineering, RSS, technology history, twitter, Yahoo 0 Comments December 9, 2024

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2002 – The trial of Jon Lech Johansen, better known as “DVD Jon,” begins with Johansen pleading not guilty. DVD Jon has been a pioneer in “Reverse engineering”. O.K, so that is a fancy way of saying “Pirating”, but without his efforts, advances might not have been made. He was acquitted on January 7, 2003.

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Yahoo acquires del.icio.us (delicious.com)
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June 13, 1993: Interactive Television from Microsoft

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June 13, 1993: Microsoft and Time-Warner Create Interactive TV

1993 – Microsoft teamed up with Tele-communications and Time Warner to start the revolution known as “Interactive TV”. The ability to buy product right through the set during a show. iTV would give users a Digital Set Top Box in which they would use to browse, go back and watch video. It even connected to a telephone to let you know who is calling and possibly get SMS messages.

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1983 – Pioneer Crossed Neptune
1986 – Activision finalizes the merger with Infocom
2003 – 2.4.21 of LINUX kernal released
2003 – IE for Mac is shut down
2005 – Fedora Core 4 is released
2006 – Vincent Ferrari tries to cancel his AOL account, but the agent wouldn’t
2007 – Jeffrey Goodin is the first to be sentenced because of the CAN-SPAM act. He was posing as an AOL billing agent

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March 25, 1994: Microsoft Excel 4.0

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 0325, aggregator, AOL, chris pirillo, comcast, comdex, cross marketing, ebay, first computers, freedom, full force, g4 tech tv, g4 techtv, Geek, gold, kevin norton, Kevin Rose, leo laporte, march 25, pioneer, pioneers, privacy conference, screen savers, spring comdex, TechTV, Television 0 Comments March 24, 2019

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1994 – Microsoft released Excel 4.0. It included an Easter egg animation of the Excel logo crushing the numbers 1-2-3.

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January 15, 1990: AT&T Reboots

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 4ESS switch, aggregator, AT&T, Coveritlive, day in tech history, game age, game system, intel, inventor, iTunes, mozy, national medal of technology, patent, patents, pioneer, Podcast, ralph baer, Ralph H. Baer, Reboot, RSS, steve jobs, Switch, switches, technology history, tv game, twitter, video game, wikipedia 0 Comments January 14, 2019

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

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December 9, 2002: Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) Trial

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, day in tech history, del icio us, DVD, dvd jon, Geek, Jon, jon lech johansen, Los Angeles, Microsoft, microsoft launches windows, pioneer, Plea, Podcast, reverse engineering, RSS, technology history, twitter, Yahoo 0 Comments December 8, 2018

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Yahoo acquires del.icio.us (delicious.com)
Microsoft launches Windows 2.01 and Oxite
Bandai releases WonderSwan

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June 13, 1993: Interactive Television from Microsoft

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine activision, AOL, aol account, aol billing, day in tech history, fedora core 4, Geek, geek history, history, honey moon, infocom 2003, interactive television, iTunes, Kernal, Microsoft, neptune, pioneer, Podcast, RSS, set top box, sms messages, technology history, tele communications, time warner, tv caption, vincent ferrari 0 Comments June 13, 2018

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June 13, 1993: Microsoft and Time-Warner Create Interactive TV

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1983 – Pioneer Crossed Neptune
1986 – Activision finalizes the merger with Infocom
2003 – 2.4.21 of LINUX kernal released
2003 – IE for Mac is shut down
2005 – Fedora Core 4 is released
2006 – Vincent Ferrari tries to cancel his AOL account, but the agent wouldn’t
2007 – Jeffrey Goodin is the first to be sentenced because of the CAN-SPAM act. He was posing as an AOL billing agent

Day in Tech History/ Microsoft

March 25, 1994: Microsoft Excel 4.0

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine aggregator, AOL, chris pirillo, comcast, comdex, cross marketing, ebay, first computers, freedom, full force, g4 tech tv, g4 techtv, Geek, gold, kevin norton, Kevin Rose, leo laporte, march 25, pioneer, pioneers, privacy conference, screen savers, spring comdex, TechTV, Television 0 Comments March 25, 2018

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Microsoft

1994 – Microsoft released Excel 4.0. It included an easter egg animation of the Excel logo crushing the numbers 1-2-3.

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