January 28: Radio Shack Chooses Compaq over IBM

1998 – Radio Shack said in an interesting move that they partnered with Compaq over IBM in PC sales throughout [...]

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January 27: Magnavox Odyssey Production Begins

1972 - Magnavox begins the production of the Odyssey Video game system. The final release date was not until May. [...]

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January 26: Lotus 1-2-3 Released

1983 – The Lotus Development Corporation releases Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM computers. Mitchell Kapor, founder and friend of the developers [...]

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January 25: SQL Slammer Worm DDOS

2003 – 5:30 AM. SQL Slammer worm caused a DDOS, infecting 75,000 within ten minutes. Christopher J. Rouland, the CTO [...]

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Random Quote in Tech History

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. -Bill Gates

January 24: RemoteAccess BBS Released to Public

RemoteAccess BBS is a DOS Bulletin Board System. It’s software was written by Andrew Milner. RemoteAccess was released as shareware and did a crude [...]

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January 23: TV Series A-Team Debuts

1983 – In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they [...]

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January 22: Apple Macintosh 1984 Superbowl Advertisement

1984 – Apple created the opportunity of a lifetime with the Macintosh. It was the first mouse-driven computer and Graphical [...]

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January 21: Kevin Mitnick Uses the Internet

2000 - Kevin Mitnick, who was imprisoned for 5 Years in hacking IBM, Motorola and DEC; then a big chase with the FBI, was [...]

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January 20: Apple Lemmings Ad

1985 - When you hear “Apple Superbowl commercial“, you instantly think a woman running down a hall with a sledgehammer [...]

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