August 11, 2003
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 trigge...
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2022-08-08 05:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostCharms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
-Alexander Pope
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IBM Presents Harvard the Mark I
August 7, 1944
IBM presents Harvard University their Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), an electro-mechanical computer devised by Howard H. Aiken and built by IBM. Harvard renamed the ASCC the Harvard Mark I. The Mark I was not ...
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August 3, 1993
Apple introduces the Newton MessagePad, one of the world’s first Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). The term PDA was first used by Apple CEO John Scully in 1992. While a commercial failure, the Newton platform set the bar for f...
2022-08-03 14:57:16 +0000 UTC View PostMarriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
-Joyce Brothers
2022-08-03 14:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Apple Lisa is Born
July 30, 1979
Apple begins work on the Lisa, which would become the world’s first commercial computer with a graphical user interface. Originally intended to sell for $2,000 and ship in 1981, the Lisa is delayed until 1983 and sells for $10,0...
2022-07-30 16:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostYou will never win if you never begin.
-Helen Rowland
2022-07-30 16:11:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch this video and learn how to do a cool transition. Then post your video and tag @thegreatlondini.com . I will duet the best one. I can't wait to see them. Happy filming.
2022-07-26 17:04:51 +0000 UTC View PostLaughter is the closest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge
2022-07-25 16:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Sirius and XM Merger Approved
July 25, 2008
The FCC approves the merger of the two satellite radio companies, Sirius and XM (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/).
2022-07-25 16:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope this week brings you, hope, prosperity and most of all love. Remember to go grab your tickets for our AMAZING EVENT in October. I'd love to meet all of you.
Leo
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2022-07-21 02:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-07-21 02:15:28 +0000 UTC View PostNothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Intel Founded
July 18, 1968
Robert Noyce, Andy Grove, and Gordon Moore incorporate Intel in Santa Clara, California to build microprocessors. Their first processor, the 4004, was released in 1971 for use in calculators. IBM’s choice of Intel’s 8088 processor for use in ...
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2022-07-14 14:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-Norman Cousins
First Mars Fly-By
July 14, 1965
NASA’s Mariner 4 becomes the first spacecraft to perform a successful fly-by of Mars and the first to send back photographs of another planet from deep space. The photographs are the first showing details of Mars’ surface inclu...
2022-07-14 14:24:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe secret of getting ahead is getting started.
-Mark Twain
2022-07-11 14:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post
July 11, 1979
The first American space station, Skylab, reenters the Earth’s atmosphere and burns up after plans for keeping it in orbit fail to materialize. Fragments of Skylab fell around Perth, Australia, killing one cow (2022-07-11 14:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
-Susan Sontag
2022-07-07 18:50:06 +0000 UTC View Post
July 7, 1936
Several US patents are issued for the Phillips-head screw and screwdriver to inventor Henry F. Phillips. Phillips founded the Phillips Screw Company to license his patents. One of the first customers was General Motors for i...
2022-07-07 18:48:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Independence is happiness.
-Susan B. Anthony
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
– Benjamin Franklin
2022-07-04 19:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
July 4, 1956
MIT’s Whirlwind, which had been completed five years earlier, becomes the first computer in the world to allow its users to enter commands through a keyboard. Previously, all input was accomplished through dials, switches, and/or p...
2022-07-04 19:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
July 3, 1969
UCLA issues a press release stating that it “will become the first station in a nationwide computer network which, for the first time, will link together computers of different makes and using different machine languages into one ...
2022-07-04 00:46:10 +0000 UTC View PostFreedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
-Daniel J. Boorstin
2022-07-04 00:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The First Mass-Produced Computer
July 2, 1953
IBM announced its 650 series of computers, the first mass-produced computer, and the dominant computer of the decade. The IBM 650 stored information on a rotating magnetic drum and received it on programmed punch card...
2022-07-02 14:24:46 +0000 UTC View PostExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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