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Day in Tech History / Internet
May 10, 2001 Trans Atlantic Cable TAT-14 Begins Service
2001 – TAT-14, the Transatlantic cable begins commercial service. A dual, bi-directional ring configuration using Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplex (DWDM) – Sixteen wavelengths of STM-64 per fiber pair. It carried 640 Gbps, and connectedGermany, the UK, Denmark, France, and the Netherlands with the US. Even though there have been a couple failures, TAT-14 is still in service. BFS preview is released Atari and MCA sign a joint venture Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe! Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS | More
May 8, 2006: E3 – Playstation 3 Announced
2006– At a press conference before E3, Sony announced the Playstation 3 gaming console. This would be for a November 17 release and would feature items like Bluetooth wireless controllers, Wi-Fi and HDMI video output, and more. The system also will contain a Blu-ray disc system and pre-installed HDD. JavE 6.0 is released Citirix XenServer 5.5 released Apple introduces the Powerbook 2400c Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe! Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS | More
Day in Tech History / Microsoft
May 6, 2004: Paint.Net Graphics Editor Released
2004 – A free raster graphics editor, Paint.NET was created and released by Rick Brewster as a school project at Washington State University. The software was released under the MIT License and was at first Open Source. After multiple cases of plagiarism, the software moved to Creative Commons, then in version 3.36 was turned to closed-source (but still free). The latest version of Paint.Net 4.0 uses NET framework 4.5.1. The Sierra Network is announced Paint.NET v.1 is released Sprint, Nextel and Clearwire announce WiMAX under the Clearwire name Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe! Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS...
Day in Tech History / Geek
by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine · Published May 2, 2019
1965 – The First Transatlantic Television Signal from "Early Bird" Intelsat I
1965 – Intelsat I, a.k.a. Early Bird, went into service. This geosynchronous satellite sent the first signal between nine different countries. A "One Hour TV Spectacular" was broadcast to Europe from the US, Canada, and Mexico. Intelsat I went up in space on April 6, 1965 and had only 240 voice circuits, so it could only transmit one TV channel at a time. Early Bird was one of three satellites that broadcast the first landing on the moon in 1969. Other Events in the Day in Technology History Excel launches for Macintosh Intel releases 3600MHz Pentium D processor First Microsoft mouse Podcast:...
Computer / Day in Tech History
May 1, 1964: First BASIC Program Written
1964– John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz run the first BASIC program at 4 AM in Dartmouth. The duo used a General Electric 225 mainframe computer and ran a simple compiler program. The duo created different programming languages since 1956, including Darsimco (Dartmouth Simplified Code), Dope (Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment). It wasn't until BASIC (Begginer's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) that became a success. The first code ran at 4 A.M on May 1st. BASIC was easy to learn, could go past mainframes (as Bill Gates and Paul Allen adapted it for personal computers in 1975), and also allowed for batch processing....
by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine · Published April 29, 2019 · Last modified April 6, 2019
April 30, 1993: World Wide Web Transferred to Public Domain
1993 – You may see www, but it's true meaning is World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee wrote WorldWideWeb during the 1990, while working for CERN. He did it on a NeXT Computer and developed it for the NeXTSTep platform (which Apple bought and turned into Mac OS X). But it was today that was most momentous, as the World Wide Web entered in the public domain. That meant anyone could access without license fees. Now a person could apply style sheets or post media on the web. The initial web browser was also the web editor. Other Events in the Day...
Day in Tech History / Google
April 29, 2004: Google Filed for IPO
2004 – Google files the S-1 form with SEC for their IPO. They said they wanted to raise US$2,718,281,828; a Mathematical algorithm based on the day they filed. The form can be found at SEC.gov The stock finally started trading on August 19, 2004 at $85 a share in a unique online auction. Other Events in the Day in Technology History Apple discontinues Macintosh XL Commodore declares bankruptcy Oracle finalizes their merger of BEA Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe! Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS | More