Day in Tech History
The Day in Technology History: Daily rundown of events in science, tech and geek. Find out what was released, happened in history: chronological order. This Podcast is produced 7 days a week.For the Tech History Geek in all of us. http://www.dayintechhistory.com
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September 27, 1996: Hacker Kevin Mitnick Indicted
1996- Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick is indicted on 25 charges ...
1996- Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick is indicted on 25 charges for a 2 and a half year hacking spree. Police believed Mitnick had stolen Millions of dollars in software from different corporations. Mitnick faced up to 200 years in prison if found guilty.
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September 26, 1914: FTC Established
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is formed to ...
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is formed to regulate business in the US. President Wilson issued this to "Trust bust". The FTC is controlled by a 5 member panel that serve in 7 year terms. They govern all fair trade practices. -
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September 25, 2006: iWoz (From Computer Geek to Cult Icon) Book
2006 - The book iWoz: from Computer Geek to Cult ...
2006 - The book iWoz: from Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple and had Fun Doing it. (**WHEW!**) came out. It was a book that was written to dispel some of the rumors and misconceptions on many different i...
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September 24, 1998: eBay filed IPO
1998- In 3 years since it's inception, eBay grew to ...
1998- In 3 years since it's inception, eBay grew to be a powerful auction site. Therefore, eBay decided to go public. They offered 9 million shares on NASDAQ starting at $18 a share. When all is said and done, they closed the day at $47.375. -
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September 23, 1999: Blogger Turns 15, 2002: Phoenix 0.9 Released
1999 - Its considered the one of the earliest publishing ...
1999 - Its considered the one of the earliest publishing tools, Blogger personal website publishing system by Pyra Labs was released. The software was co-founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. The Blogger code was re-written in 2002 and in 2003,
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September 22, 1999: eBay Auction of $10 Million in Marijuana
1999 - an ebay user (litterally) puts 500 pounds of ...
1999 - an ebay user (litterally) puts 500 pounds of Marijuana on the auction block. The auction itself hits up to 10 million dollars. eBay finds out and pulls down the auction, but it does say something for the power of illegal drugs over the internet.
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September 21, 1994: Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 released
1994 - Microsoft releases the second version of the Windows ...
1994 - Microsoft releases the second version of the Windows NT OS - Windows NT 3.5 in two flavors; NT Workstation and NT Server. This replaced NT 3.1 and was the first Windows NT version to have a Server and Workstation version. NT 3.
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September 20, 1954: FORTRAN Code Run for First Time
1954 - Fortran is a blend from the IBM Mathematical ...
1954 - Fortran is a blend from the IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System that started as the assembly language for the IBM 704. A general-purpose, procedural programming language that is suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. -
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September 19, 2011: Netflix Qwikster,1995: AT&T Acquired NCR
2011 - Netflix CEO Reed Hastings made one of the ...
2011 - Netflix CEO Reed Hastings made one of the biggest blunders of 2011 when he announced not only was the DVD section of Netflix getting a new name, but also that section was up for sale. Qwikster brought a lot of attention rapidly for two reasons -...
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September 18,1989: NeXTstepOS, 1990: NeXTstation Computers
1989 - 4 years after resigning from Apple, Steve Jobs ...
1989 - 4 years after resigning from Apple, Steve Jobs and his newest company NeXT finally release the NeXTstepOS. It is a Unix based system, with some aspects of BSD and using the Mach kernal. This is the OS that will eventually merge into Apple when J...
