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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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November 27, 1998: Sega Dreamcast Launched in Japan

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1998 – Sega releases their next generation console – the Dreamcast – in Japan. It didn’t get released in the US until Sept 9 1999, but it was one of the more successful console launches of it’s time.The Dreamcast had a 200 MHz processor with on-die 128-bit vector graphics engine. The graphics hardware is a PowerVR2 CLX2 chipset, sound was a Yamaha AICA Sound Processor and 16 MB 100 MHz RAM.

The Dreamcast was discontinued on Jan 31, 2001 as Sega announced they were getting out of the console market.

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E-Stamp stops selling postage

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October 10, 1980: Pac Man North American Release

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1980– The video game that changed it all debut in North America. The infamous yellow pie chart gobbling up little dots and avoiding ghosts for top scores was released to the Japanese arcades in May, but finally made it to North America in 1980.

Toru Iwatani developed the game with a nine-person team. The game was first called “Pakkuman”, inspired by the paku-paku phrase (which is what Pac-Man says whilst chomping Blinky (Oikake), Pinky (Machibuse), Inky (Kimagure), and Clyde (Otoboke).

The game had a major glitch at level 256, since it was never expected someone would get that far.

The 80’s era officially was in full swing. Pac Man fever was on the loose.

XP SP1 and SP1a support ends
The Metric system is born
Happy Tom Cruise Day.

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September 2, 1995: Sega Saturn Launched

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1995 – Sega launches the Saturn video game console in the US. The 32-bit Cartridge loading system contained the 2 x Hitachi SH-2 32-bit RISC (28.6 MHz). It was launched in Japan and Europe earlier in the year, but didn’t hit the US until this date.

You could get the system with Virtua Fighter for $399. Below is the teaser commercial for the game system.

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Ultima I released
The first Interface Message Processor is connected to the ARPANET
eBay stops an auction of a human kidney
Both the VHS (1983) and the CD-Video (1987) were introduced

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July 25, 2005: Violent Video Games Bill Goes into Law

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The sale of Video Games began to really heat up in 2005 as Illinois Governer Rod Blagojevich signs a bill into law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors. You could be fined up to $1,000 for selling games with adult ratings. Immediately, video game groups sued, claiming the law is a restriction on free speech.The law would be deemed unconstitutional and repealed by US District Judge Matthew Kennelly.

Ericsson purchases Nortel‘s CDMA and LTE assets
Sinclair Radionics is founded
Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2 Century is first aired

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July 9, 1982: Tron Movie and Video Game Released

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It was a movie that became a cult classic. Tron – The story of Kevin Flynn who tries to figure out if ENCOM stole his game ideas. While hacking into the mainframe, the company sets a trap where Flynn gets sucked into the video game.

The movie debuted in 1982 along with the video game by Bally. Tron starred Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan. It took 17 million to make the movie, it grossed 33 million in return. Tron’s sequel of sorts – called Legacy – was released on Dec 17, 2010. Unfortunately, it did not receive the same status as the original did.

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1997 – Gibert Amelio resigns from Apple
2008 – Secret Diary of Steve Jobs shuts down
2009 – Microsoft releases Silverlight 3

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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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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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May 7, 1967: Fox and Hounds – Ralph Baer Plays First Two-Player Game

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1967 – Video game developer Ralph Baer plays the first two-player video game. Fox and Hounds was a game where the fox (a red dot) was chased by the hounds (white dots). The controller were two knobs – horizontal and vertical. You would see how long you could avoid the hounds.

From his own website: 7 May 1967 – Played first two-player video game (I lost!)

This was part of a series of more complex video games including shooting games, handball and Ping Pong. Ultimately leading to the Magnavox Odyssey TV game system in 1972.

Baer passed away on December 8, 2014.

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Telstar II Satellite is launched
Microsoft lays off 3,000
Syria cuts off Internet and phones for 24 hours

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