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December 29, 2004: Commodore Acquired

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2004 – Once Commodore dropped from the market in the 80’s, it pretty much started bouncing around the world from company to company. Ultimately it landed in the lap of KMOS – a Deleware company. However, on this day, Dutch Manufacturer Tulip sells the company to Yeahronimo Media Ventures for about US$32.7 million.

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Virtual Hydlide
<a class="zem_slink" title="Recording Industry Association of America" href="http://www.RIAA.com/” rel=”homepage”>RIAA loses on Jamie Thomas
Thomas Edison patents wireless radio

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December 28, 1995: 200 Sites Blocked by Compuserve

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1995 – Compuserve blocks access to over 200 sites that have explicit content. They do it to avoid issue with the German Government. The sites would be blocked until Feb 13, 1996 when all but 5 sites were restored.

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IBM 1420 Bank Transit System is released
Windows 7 Beta 1
Nintendo Wii runs Linux

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December 27, 2001: HotJobs Acquired by Yahoo

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2001 – Yahoo announces that they will acquire 98.6 percent of the outstanding stock to <a class="zem_slink" title="Yahoo! HotJobs” href=”http://HotJobs.yahoo.com” rel=”homepage”>HotJobs. They bought it for $10.50 / share for $436 million. They overbid Monster.com for the site. Ironically, Yahoo! ended up selling HotJobs to Monster on Feb 3, 2010 for $225 million.

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Charles Darwin embarks on his discovery mission on the HMS Beagle
<a class="zem_slink" title="Sun Microsystems” href=”http://www.sun.com/” rel=”homepage”>Sun Microsystems discontinues <a class="zem_slink" title="SunOS” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS” rel=”wikipedia”>SunOS v. 4.1.3 and 4.1.4
CERNET 2 is launched

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December 26, 2007: Apple Hits $200 a share

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2007 – With iTunes just signing a deal with FOX and their content for iTunes, stocks pushed upward to $200 a share. It was the first time Apple hit that barrier, and promptly dropped after. The company has been up and down, and in mid-2008 were at only $90 a share. However, after March 6th, 2008, the stock started to rise to the $400 / Share mark. Since then Apple climbed up to $700/share and then on June 9th, 2014 the stock was split 7-to-1. Currently, the stock is at $111 (technically $777 for those who purchased before the split).

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The National Machine Accountants Association is founded (later becomes AITP)
<a class="zem_slink" title="eGroups” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eGroups” rel=”wikipedia”>eGroups CEO Michael Klien and daughter were killed in a small plane accident
FM radio is patented

Day in Tech History/ Geek

December 24: Watch out for Werewolves

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An interesting fact: Russian folklore believed that December 24th was the day people could be turned into Werewolves. Any child that is born on December 24th would be considered a werewolf. There are many ways to detect a werewolf – bristles under the tongue was one way to check.

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Fox-Linux 1.0 Released
Verizon awarded $33 million against Cybersquatters

Large Hadron Collider Magnets by Alpinethread

Day in Tech History/ Science

December 16, 1994: Large Hadron Collider Approved

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1994 – Although its only been in mainstream news for a couple years, the Large Hadron Collider has actually been around for many years now. On this day, for example, <a class="zem_slink" title="CERN” href=”http://www.CERN.ch” rel=”homepage”>CERN receives not only approval, but also the funding to build this massive device. Because of this, CERN hands the WebCore project to the French organization INRIA (the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique.)

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Kevin Mitnick charged with stealing $1 million from DEC
The Transistor is first demonstrated to a small audience
The Pepper Pad is released
Steve Jobs and Apple back out of <a class="zem_slink" title="MacWorld” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWorld” rel=”wikipedia”>MacWorld

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December 15, 1983: AltaVista Launches

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1995 – At the turn of the Internet age, researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation, led by Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier and Michael Burrows, created a web crawler and indexer algorithm. The web program was launched on December 15th and called “AltaVista”. The name was chosen because of the surrounds of their company in Palo Alto, CA.

The original name was altavista.digital.com and used a multi-threaded crawler (Scooter). The back-end was running on advanced hardware, therefore it could gather information faster than any other web crawling software out there.

AltaVista was one of the top search engines out there until Google overtook them all. Ultimately, in 2003 AltaVista was purchased by Yahoo! who continued to run it until 2013 when it was shut down.

1983 – There is some debate whether this happened on Dec. 15h or 31st. If you were a citizen of Twin Falls, Idaho and up at 1 AM watching<a href="http://www.KMVT.com/”> KMVT channel 11, then you got a treat. You saw an ad that changed the Superbowl. You saw an ad that changed a computer company.That’s right. You were the first to see the famous 1984 Superbowl Advertisement for Apple Macintosh. The Chiat/Day advertising company pre-ran ads to make sure they would be acceptable for a big release. Therefore, 1 AM on Thursday, December 15th – chances of people catching the ad are slim.

Of course, the ad went on to be one of the most influential ads of the 20th century and turned Superbowl commercials into a hot commodity. Interesting note: Apple didn’t put a commercial in the 2012 Superbowl.

ISO C90 is released
Fortran 95 is released
Twitter rival <a class="zem_slink" title="Pownce” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce” rel=”wikipedia”>Pownce closes down after sale to Six Apart

Day in Tech History/ Geek

December 14, 1994: W3C Held First Meeting

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1994 – The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) held its first meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Albert Vezza and <a class="zem_slink" title="Tim Berners-Lee” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee” rel=”wikipedia”>Tim Berners-Lee founded the group to development and maintain international standards for the World Wide Web. Since then, the W3C has overseen the validation efforts in HTML and other formats.

Delta rolls out WiFi on flights
Microsoft releases Windows NT 4.0 SP2
Edward R. Murrow features the Whirlwind computer on See It Now

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