Day in Tech History http://www.dayintechhistory.com History of Technology, history of Geek culture and more. Daily Podcast. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:30:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=Day in Tech History www.dayintechhistory.com - 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. Jeffrey Powers clean Jeffrey Powers geekazine@gmail.com geekazine@gmail.com (Jeffrey Powers) 2011 For the Tech History Geek in all of us history, technology, geek, tech, information, daily, Day in Tech History http://www.geekazine.com/images/DITH144.jpg http://www.dayintechhistory.com TV-G Madison, WI Daily February 22: AMD K6-III Sharptooth Processor http://www.dayintechhistory.com/dith/february-22-amd-k6-iii-sharptooth-processor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=february-22-amd-k6-iii-sharptooth-processor http://www.dayintechhistory.com/dith/february-22-amd-k6-iii-sharptooth-processor/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:30:17 +0000 Jeffrey Powers @geekazine http://www.dayintechhistory.com/?p=18640 AMD

AMD

1999 - AMD releases the AMD K6-III Processor in speeds of 400 and 450 MHz. It would feature a 64KB Level 1 cache and a 256KB Level 2 cache. The 3DNow! graphics instructions would be supported, along with Direct X 6.0. There were 21.3 million transistors on the 0.25 micron process wafer.

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Space Shuttle Columbia Crew

2003 – As the Space Shuttle Columbia was re-entering into Earth’s atmosphere, the shuttle disintegrated. It killed all 7 astronauts. After review, NASA discovered that a puncture on the wing had created a structural flaw – like when you have a ding on your windshield, if not repaired, it could completely comprimise the glass – and the ship fell apart.

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  • Empire Strikes Back – Special Edition
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MIR

1986 - The first piece of the Mir Space Station is launched. With 6 docking ports and labs for research, the Space Station was expected to push us into the stars. The term “Mir” is Russian for “Peace”.

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Photoshop

1990 – Thomas Knoll was a student at the University of Michigan when he decided to write a program for his Macintosh Plus. The program was a simple image viewer, but when his brother – John Knoll – caught wind, he suggested that Thomas turn it into an image editor. Thomas took 6 months to develop the first version of the photo editing program. They then took the idea to Adobe, who snapped the idea up. At that point, Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released.

20 years later, it became the premier image editing software for most. The first version only ran on Mac and because of the Monochromatic display, only created in black and white. There is not a day I go by without having to open up my version of Photoshop. I even used to do Photoshop contests – Here are some of the photoshops I did.

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Love in the Snow

1979 – for the first and only time in recorded history, it snowed in the Sahara Desert. It was in Southern Algeria and the storm only lasted a half hour. The snow melted off quickly.

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windows 2000

2000 – Microsoft released the next version of the Windows Operating system in Windows 2000. Also known at Windows NT 5.0, it was the beginning of merging the NT and 9x versions. Of course, the companion was Windows ME, which didn’t do too well. The end result streamlined the two OS into Windows XP.

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RemoteAccess BBS

1978 - The first computer bulletin board system was created in Chicago, Illinois by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess. The Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) came together in 30 days, where it was then launched. Even though it was already turned on for testing, today was the day CBBS went into production.

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YouTube

2005 - YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is established by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The website was registered on February 14th, and didn’t officially launch until November 2005. Google bought out YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 Billion. With an upload every 20 minutes and over 1 Billion views a day, YouTube has definitely grown to a video powerhouse.

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US Army photo of ENIAC

Happy Valentines Day!

1946 – J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly debut the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). 17,468 vacuum tubes at 100,000 pulses/second. It was part of a $400,000 contract from the U.S. Army.

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Atari

1996 - Atari Corporation announces the merger with Jugi Tandon Storage (JTS). Atari extended a bridge loan of $25 Million so JTS can still build drives. The company would still be known as JTS, but Atari would own 60% of the company.

While Atari was sold to Hasbro via THQ, JTS could not emerge from the debts. They ended up filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Feb 28, 1999.

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