1928 – Radio station WGY of General York. A play called “The Queen’s Messenger” had its audio broadcast over radio with the picture in sync over television at same time.

 

1940 – First Public Remote Computation is Demonstrated

The first public demonstrated of remote computation occurs during a meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Dartmouth College. Bell Laboratories researcher George Stibitz set up a terminal that allowed conference attendees to perform remote calculations over telephone lines with Bell Labs’ Complex Number Calculator in New York City. Stibitz had first tested the connection on September 9, an event memorialized by a plaque in front of McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College.

 

1985 – International Cometary Explorer Passes Through Comet

The International Cometary Explorer passes through the gas tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner, the first ever man-made object pass through the tail of a comet.

 

1998 – The US Congress released the contents of the Starr report on the Internet. The report led to the impeachment, but not the removal, of President Clinton. The websites that hosted the report were slammed with traffic.

 

2008 – TiVO Announce Phone DVR

TiVO and Research in Motion (RIM) announce they will collaborate to give people another option to record their favorite shows. Coming soon, you would be able to set your DVR and review schedules right from your Blackberry device. That way if you forget to set your recorder, you can call up the application and make the change. It was also the historic day that New York City’s Twin Towers were taken down by a terrorist attack.

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1948 – Microsoft Word Chief Architect Simonyi Born

Charles Simonyi, whose work as chief architect of Microsoft Word is born in Budapest, Hungary. After moving to the united states for study at the University of California, Berkeley, Simonyi took a job at the Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, developing the first WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word-processing editor. Later, at Microsoft, he integrated such theories into Word and Multiplan, the predecessor of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

1984 – First Genetic Fingerprinting Discovered

Alex Jeffreys of Leicester, England noticed and deduced that DNA is a unique item from person to person and could possibly be used to identify someone. Hence, Genetic Fingerprinting was born. Alex was originally working on a way to determine heredity of illnesses when he made this discovery.

1990 – The First Internet Search Engine

The first Internet search engine, Archie, is launched. It was used to index FTP archives to make finding files easier. However, as the technology for the World Wide Web was not invented until later in the year, it was not the first web search engine.

1991 – Paul Lindner posted to comp.unix.misc introducing “The Internet Gopher” a distributed information service. Before the World Wide Web, Gopher was the primary way to find and share documents online.

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, powered up on its quest to discoverr the secrets of particle physics, especially evidence of the Higgs Boson.

2013 – Apple announced two new phones, the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner, and the iPhone 5C a cheaper and colored version of the iPhone 5.

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1877 – Thomas Edison Says “Mary Had a Little Lamb”

How does the kid nursery rhyme play into technology? Well in 1877 these were the first words uttered out by Thomas Edison in making the first audio recording. Sometimes we take for granted audio – we have moved from Album to 8-Tracks, cassettes, CD’s, then finally MP3. But if it wasn’t for Thomas Edison’s work, we might not be at the high and easy levels of audio recording.

 

1960 – A long-distance phone link was tested using the Echo 1 satellite. William Victor placed a call from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Goldstone, California to William C. Jakes Jr. at the Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, bouncing off the satellite to make the connection.

 

1994 – Programmer Suggest Bundling Internet explorer in Windows 95

Microsoft Corp. decided to work to incorporate an Internet browser into upcoming Windows 95 operating system in an effort to catch up to the Internet bandwagon it had missed. On August 15, Windows 95 programmer Benjamin Slivka sent an e-mail to his coworkers suggesting a World Wide Web browser as a feature for Windows 95. Microsoft has faced legal challenges for the way it bundled the result of the project – Internet Explorer – with Windows software.

 

1998 – The Original iMac Goes on Sale

After three months of anticipation, the original iMac G3 goes on sale. The “Bondi Blue” iMac became well-known for its colorful case, which bucked the industry norm beige. However, it is also known for being the first commercially successful computer to eliminate the use of legacy ports and the floppy drive. Widely criticized at the time for not including the older technologies, by only featuring USB ports for peripheral connectivity, the iMac helped popularize the emerging standard, even on Windows PCs. And when was the last time anyone saw a beige PC?

I recall helping my uncle purchase one of the first iMacs at a CompUSA store on that first day. There were only 15 available and we were there early enough to grab one before they quickly sold out. Yes, I was totally jealous but at least I got to help set it up.

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1888 – Mr. George Gouraud introduced the Edison phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord,” one of the first recordings of music ever made.

 

1894 – The first wireless transmission of information using Morse code was demonstrated by Oliver Lodge during a meeting of the British Association at Oxford. A message was transmitted about 50 meters from the old Clarendon Laboratory to the lecture theater of the University Museum.

 

1940 – Atanasoff Finishes Paper Describing the Atanasoff Berry Computer

John Atanasoff finishes a paper describing the Atanasoff Berry Computer, or ABC, the computer he designed with Clifford Berry to solve simultaneous linear equations. Atanasoff was only able to claim credit for this paper and title of inventor of the electronic digital computer after a long court battle that ended in 1972. The case – initiated on charge by Honeywell Inc. that Sperry Rand. Corp. had enforced a fraudulent patent – involved lengthy testimonial by Atanasoff and ENIAC inventors Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, who held the patent under review. A judge’s ruling that Atanasoff was the true inventor led to invalidation of the ENIAC patent.

A working replica of the original ABC was completed in 1998 by staff and volunteers at Iowa State University at Ames.

Atanasoff died on June 15, 1995.

 

1989 – Sega launched the Genesis console in the US. It had been released in Japan the previous October as the ‘Mega Drive.’

 

2006 – Dell Laptops Catch Fire

Dell and Sony admit that flaws in Sony-manufactured batteries used in certain laptops could result in the batteries overheating, catching fire, or exploding. They recall over 4.1 million batteries, the largest computer-related recall in history. This came after several widely publicized reports in the preceding months where Dell laptops did catch fire. Still to this day, Dell’s reputation has never fully recovered from the incident.

 

2008 – Netflix goes Offline

Fifty-Five Netflix distribution centers go offline due to an “undisclosed error”. While they didn’t let us know what happened, they did say that it only affected the core of mail-based delivery operations. The problem took 3 days to fully resolve, although they were slowly shipping movies by that Wednesday.

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1888 – John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh, Scotland. He would grow up to invent the first working television system in the world.

1912 – The US Department of Commerce issued its first experimental radio license in compliance with the International Radio Convention and Radio Act of 1912. St. Joseph’s College received a license with serial number to operate kilowatt station 3XJ.

1973 – ICCP Is Founded

The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals was founded. The bearer of the standards for the computer industry, ICCP promoted high professional standards for the computer industry and offered a certification program in which engineers earned the designations of Certified Computing Professional or Associated Computing Professional.

1993 – Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting for SNES

Capcom releases Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting for the Super NES in the US. The street Fighter II arcade game started the fighting game boom of the 1990’s, which spawned off other many other fighting game franchises such as Mortal Kombat and Virtua Fighter. The Super NES version brought Street Fighter II into the home and … um … college dorms where certain people spent many hours smacking down their dorm mates.

I still have this game so if anyone is feeling saucy, the smack downs can resume at any time.

2004 – Adam Curry launched an RSS feed of audio recordings called “Daily Source Code” and podcasting became a thing.

2008 – Datallegro, XPrime and Microsoft

Datallegro – a warehouse application – had been sued by XPrime, where Cary Jardin (CEO of Datallegro) used to work. Datallegro was in mid acquisition by Microsoft at the time. The acquisition completed on Sept 16, 2008. The suit was analyzed by critics as “not relevant”. No word on how that suit ended.

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1877 – Thomas Edison sketched his idea for the phonograph, and may have even completed a model. The first working model wasn’t completed until December 6.

 

1960 – First Communication Satellite Launched

Echo 1, the world’s first communication satellite is launched. Technically, Echo 1 was passive reflector, as communication signals were bounced off it rather than retransmitted as modern satellites do today.

 

1977 – The space shuttle Enterprise carried out its first free flight test, when the orbiter was released from the back of a 747 in flight.

 

1981 – IBM Introduced Personal Computer

IBM introduces its Personal Computer (PC) also known as the IBM Model 5150, lending legitimacy to microprocessor-based computers. IBM’s first PC ran with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system. In 1983, Compaq Computer Corp. released the first clone of the IBM PC, a machine embodying an identical copy of the PC architecture – which IBM had made publicly available – and beginning the gradual decline of IBM’s share of the personal computer market.

The PC architecture, based on Intel’s x86 microprocessor family, continues to dominate desktop computing with over 85% of PCs using an x86-based CPU.

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1942 – Hedy Markey and composer George Antheil received a US patent for a frequency-hopping device. The technique has led to many advancement in wireless technology including Wi-Fi. Markey was better known under her stage name of Hedy Lamarr.

 

1950 – Apple Inventor Wozniak Born

Wozniak and jobs entered into business after Wozniak designed a single-board personal computer known as the Apple I. In 1976, with specifications in hand and an order for 100 machines at $500 each from the Byte Shop, he and Jobs began assembling computers in the basement of Steve Jobs’ parent garage.

While still studying at the University of California-Berkeley in 1972, Wozniak had shown his electronics skill as well as his sense of humor in building his blue box, a tone generator used to make free phone calls, which he sold in dormitories.

 

1965 – Shinji Mikami was born in Japan. He grew up to become a video game designer for Capcom, revolutionizing survival-horror games with his popular series, Resident Evil.

 

1993 – Red Hat Goes Public

Red Hat is Linux distribution and a vendor. They are on the S&P 500 company list for it. Founded in 1993, this company has provided a more professional type of open source software – giving pay support and Enterprise editions for IT pros. CEO Bon Young brought the company to this point. They filed for IPO in 1999. It turned out to be one of the largest Wall Street Gains in history. They put up 900,000 shares of common stock. Red Hat spiked at $136 a share, but is currently at $57.

 

1994 – Net Market founder Dan Kohn watched his friend buy a Sting CD online from Net Market using his credit card. This is sometimes considered the first ecommerce transaction.

 

2003 – Windows Gets Blasted

The Blaster worm, also known as MSBlast or Lovesan, begins to spread on the internet, infecting Windows XP and Windows 2000 computers. The primary symptom of the worm was the crashing of the RPC service, which would trigger the computer to shut itself down and reboot as shown in the graphic. Microsoft estimated the number of machines infected between 8 and 16 million. Damage caused by the worm was estimated at $320 million.

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1519 – Ferdinand Megellan set sail to find that pesky trade route that Columbus was looking for, and instead circumnavigated the globe. Well, at least his ship did.

 

1911 – Computer Inventor Rajchman Born

Jan Rajchman, who made many important contributions to electronic computing hardware, is born in England. After earning a degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Rajchman took a job with RCA, where he began work with Vladimir Zworykin on an electron multiplier. He is probably the inventor of the scintillation counter, a device widely used in physics research, and consulted at the Moore School (University of Pennsylvania) working with ENIAC inventors Eckert and Mauchly while there. One of his most interesting (though commercially impractical) inventions was the “Selectron” tube memory shown here, a device he invented for John Von Neumann’s IAS computer project at Princeton and used, for a brief time, on the Johnniac machine at RAND.

Rajchman became director of RCA’s Computer Laboratory until the company left the business, spent a year at UC Berkeley, and then became a private industry consultant.

Rajchman died April 1, 1989.

 

1966 – First Lunar Orbiter Launched

The first lunar orbiter, creatively named Lunar Orbiter I, is launched. Its primary mission is to photograph potential landing sites for future Apollo missions.

 

2004 – The iTunes Music Store library passed the mark of 1,000,000 songs available.

 

2015 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced a new company called Alphabet had been created to oversee a slimmed down Google as well as other companies Google owned like Calico, Nest and more. Sunder Pichai was named CEO of the new Google. Alphabet continued to be traded under the stock tickers GOOG and GOOGL.

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1859 – US Patent no. 25,076 was issued to Nathan Ames of Saugus, Mass for the first escalator-type moving staircase.

 

1927 – Computer Pioneer Marvin Minsky Born

Minsky has made many major contributions to computer science in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In 1987, Minsky wrote the landmark book The Society of Mind, which proposed that human consciousness and thought processes were decomposable into a series of mini-minds or agents, each of which performed specific functions. Minsky received a BA and PhD in mathematics at Harvard and Princeton. There he envisioned a “rat-in-a-maze” neural network simulator, which became the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator (SNARC) built with assistance from Dean Edmonds. His other inventions include mechanical hands and other robotic devices, the confocal scanning microscope, the Muse synthesizer for musical variations (with Ed Fredkin), and the first LOGO turtle (with Seymour Papert). His later work focused on understanding the connections between computers and commonsense reason.

 

1991 – The First E-mail From Space

Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-43, use an Apple Macintosh Portable computer to send what is considered the first e-mail from space. Using the AppleLink online service, Atlantis astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson sent the following message:

“Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first Applelink from space. Having a Great time, wish you were here, …send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista,baby,…we’ll be back!”

The AppleLink software on the Macintosh was specially configured to connect to NASA’s communication system which allowed the Shuttle to interface with Apple’s proprietary network from space. The Macintosh Portable itself only had very minor modifications to operate in space.

 

1995 – Netscape Communications staged an IPO. Shares opened at $28 and shot up to $75 per share in one day, becoming one of the indicators of the beginning of the dot-com boom.

 

1999 – AMD Athlon Processor Introduced

AMD introduces a new brand name to compete with Intel in 1999. The Athlon processor replaces the K7 and adds 3DNow! Technology. The processor was introduced with speeds of 500 MHz to 650 MHz . the prices went from $249 to $849. The Palm VIIx was $449 and the Vx was $399.

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1876 – Thomas Edison received a US patent for a mimeograph, which combined with an invention by A.B. Dick led to the first widely successful mimeograph machine.

 

1908 – For the first time in public, Wilbur Wright showed off the Wright Brothers’ flying machine at the racecourse in Le Mans, France. French doubts about the Wright Brothers’ claim to flight were put to rest for the time being.

 

1980 – Project Chess Gets Approval

The Project Chess team at IBM shows a prototype microcomputer to their corporate management. Management gives approval for the team to build an operational computer within a one year deadline to compete in the rapidly emerging personal computer market, one year and 4 days later, the IBM PC is introduced to the world and the rest is history.

 

1995 – Netscape Communication Goes Public

Netscape Communication Corp. goes public after generating revenues of $6.6 million in the previous 12 months. Shares jumped from $28 to $75 before closing at $58 the first day. Netscape was co-founded by Marc Andreessen who had earlier written the MOSAIC web browser while a student at the University of Illinois.

 

2007 – Barbara Morgan became the first educator to safely reach space on the US. Space Shuttle Endeavour.

 

2008 – $1000 Apple iPhone Application

Apple has always controlled it’s products – The Application store is no different. This might be a great case why. An application was put into the store – Called the $1000 app. It did cost $1000, which means after Apple’s 30%, the developer received $700 per purchase. The application simply showed a ruby. Apple took the app down quick, but not after the application was purchased 8 times. Keep in mind there ARE application that cost upwards to $1,000.

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