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March 14 – Rick Rolled: Never Gonna Give You Up hits Number 1
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1988 - It’s the song that found it’s rebirth and the term “Rick Rolled” became a urban saying. Of course, we are talking about Rick Astley and the song: Never Gonna Give You Up. It hit #1 on the charts. Of course, it’s internet fame has turned this into a whole new beast.
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- Microsoft releases XBox in Europe
- NEC announces they will be getting into the computer market
- Apple releases the Power Macintosh computer
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March 7: Monopoly Game First Created
First Monopoly Board
1933- Charles Darrow creates the game Monopoly, with designers Elizabeth Magie, Louis Thun, and Fred Thun. There were a few other board games before Monopoly, like “The Landlord game“, which Monopoly was loosely derived from. The board is based on Atlantic City and the playing pieces were models from items around Charles Darrow’s’ house. Parker Brothers would pick the game up in 1935 and turn it into a household name.
Since then, multiple variations of the board game have been introduced. Everything from Star Wars Monopoly to Bratz Jr Monopoly game. The game has gone through many revisions, and some families have made “unofficial rules” – such as what happens when you land on Free Parking.
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- Richard Wittman Jr. admits breaking into NASA
- Sony announces release of Linux development kit for Playstation 2
- Intel gives computers, internet to employees for free.
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February 29: Atari Moved
Atari
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1996 – Atari moves it’s offices from 1196 Borregas Avenue in Sunnyvale, CA to 455 South Mathilda Avenue in Sunnyvale,CA. The new location gives Atari 7,208 square feet. It was a Bank of America building, and still had the vault door. Jack Tramiel, Sam Tramiel, Leonard Tramiel, Garry Tramiel, Dave Schwartz, John Skruch, Donald A. Thomas, Jr., Scott Sanders, Max Fagan, and Gayle McKim occupied the offices.
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February 28: Right to Privacy
1966 (Feb 28) – With all these ways to listen in on a conversation, the FCC has to make a ruling to protect the rights of US citizens. They create the Right to Privacy act which bands evesdropping or direct and indirect use of radio – controlled devices.
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- M*A*S*H* broadcasts the final episode
- PeopleSoft reorganizes
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January 31: Corel Acquired WordPerfect
Corel WordPerfect
1996 - Corel not only gets WordPerfect form Novell, but also Quattro Pro for $180 million in stock and cash. Michael Cowpland (Founder of Corel) called WordPerfect the “Pepsi to Microsoft‘s Coke”. I guess that was not the case as OpenOffice (RC maybe?) surpassed WordPerfect users.
WordPerfect and Corel have been in flux since 2006, when Vector Capital purchased 72% of the company. Just this last year, they bought up the remaining stock and became privately held once again.
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January 24: RemoteAccess BBS Released to Public
RemoteAccess BBS
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 version of Multitasking.
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- IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) a.k.a “the Poppa” is dedicated
- Microwave Oven is patented
- Gary McKinnon won right to judicial review
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January 23: TV Series A-Team Debuts
the A-Team
1983 – In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
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NBC ran the A-Team from January 23, 1983 to March 8, 1987. The movie came out June 11, 2010.
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- Sega and Bandai announce a merger
- Apple releases Macintosh Office
- The integrated circuit is conceived
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December 27: Yahoo Acquires HotJobs
Yahoo
2001 - Yahoo announces that they will acquire 98.6 percent of the outstanding stock to HotJobs. They bought it for $10.50 / share for $436 million. They overbid Monster.com for the site. Ironically, Yahoo! ended up selling HotJobs to Monster on Feb 3, 2010 for $225 million.
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Other Historical Events in Technology
- Charles Darwin embarks on his discovery mission on the HMS Beagle
- Sun Microsystems discontinues SunOS v. 4.1.3 and 4.1.4
- CERNET 2 is launched
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November 15: 40 Years Ago, Intel Announced the 4004 Microprocessor in an Advertisement
Intel 4004 microprocessor
1971 – Intel announced the 4004 microprocessor in an ad in Electronic News Magazine. Intel called it a micro-programmable computer on a chip, this was the first single-chip processor. It was also concidered to be the precursor to the x86 processor. The 4004 was followed with the 8008, 8080 and 8085 processors. Federico Faggin was the chip lead designer. He holds 2 of the chip’s patents.
The 4004 could run 60,000 interactions per second (0.06 MIP). The clock rate on the chip was 108 KHz and was accompanied by the Intel RAM chip. It only cost $200. The chip made it’s debut on March 2, 1973 – More information on the Intel 4004
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Intel 4004 Advertisement in Electronic News
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- Corel Linux OS 1.0
- SURFnet and Internet2 Abilene connect via Gigabit ethernet
- Neopets are founded
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September 11: Twin Towers Goes Down, TiVO and RIM DVR on Phone
2008 - 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. We at the Day in Tech History commemorate the 10 year anniversary and take a moment of silence in the show to remember those who lost their lives.
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Other Historical Events in Technology
- Scott Fahlman’s original email on emoticons is found
- Operation Cybersnare
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