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This Day in Tech history.
Apple Sues over QuickTime
December 6, 1994
Apple sues the San Francisco Canyon Company alleging they helped Intel and Microsoft steal code developed under contract for QuickTime for Windows.
Apple first released QuickTime for the Macintosh in December 1991 and then co...
2021-12-06 17:29:47 +0000 UTC View PostParents Guide to dealing with the School if your child is being bullied
Experts say there are many effective ways to handle bullying at school, so long as parents, teachers and administrators work together to create a safe and inclusive environment and confront problems when they arise.
"Preventing bullying is first and foremost an adult responsibility, “Parents need to pay attention to bullying as a possible cause if their children's behavior changes from ...
2021-12-04 15:39:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Segway Unveiled
December 3, 2001
Inventor Dean Kamen unveils the Segway self-balancing, battery-powered vehicle on the TV show Good Morning America. The Segway uses computers and motors in its base to keep itself upright while the user is riding it. Us...
2021-12-03 23:09:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
November 1, 1999
The domain name business.com sells for $7.5 million. At the time, it was the most expensive domain name sold in history...
2021-12-01 16:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Barnes and Noble Releases Nook
November 30, 2009
Book retailer Barnes and Noble releases their first Nook e-reader to compete with the highly successful Amazon Kindle, released two years earlier. (h...
2021-12-01 03:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Atari Introduces Pong
November 29, 1972
Atari introduces their first product, Pong, which would become the world’s first commercially successful video game. The popularity of Pong sparked the beginning of the video game industry with Atari being the leader in both arc...
2021-12-01 03:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostMovement Rules
Here is an updated list of our movement rules. Please take the time to read them.
Thanks
2021-11-30 17:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Polaroid Instant Camera Goes on Sale
November 28, 1948
Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, 57 units of the first commercial instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, go on sale at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston. Producing...
2021-11-29 01:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
AOL Buys Netscape
November 24, 1998
AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $4.2 billion. At the time it was considered a move by AOL and Netscape to merge forces to better compete with Microsoft in the brow...
2021-11-24 17:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
World of Warcraft Released
November 23, 2004
Blizzard Entertainment releases the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is currently the most popular online game in history. (2021-11-24 04:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This Day in Tech History.
Toy Story Changes the Movies
November 22, 1995
Walt Disney Pictures releases the Pixar Animation Studios production Toy Story, the first major motion picture that is created completely by computer-generated animation. A breakthrough film, Toy Story set the standard for al...
2021-11-23 01:38:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Computer Mouse Patented
November 17, 1970
Douglas Engelbart receives US patent 3,541,541 for his “X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System”, more commonly known as the compu...
2021-11-17 15:33:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Steve Jobs Writes a Letter
November 16, 1982
Steve Jobs writes a letter to McIntosh Labs asking for rights to use “Macintosh” as the brand name of Apple’s still-in-development computer. McIntosh Labs makes high-end stereo equipment, and while Jef Raskin, creator o...
2021-11-16 17:02:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis day in Tech History.
Ethernet is Born
November 11, 1973
As invented by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, an Ethernet network functions for the first time. From its humble beginnings as a research project at Xerox PARC, Ethernet has developed into the de facto standard for business and home netwo...
2021-11-12 14:31:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
The Day the Music Was Reborn
November 10, 2001
Apple ships the first iPod, the device that changed the course of both the music and technology industries. Of course, at the time, most “experts” could only focus on the fact that other devices cost less and may have...
2021-11-10 17:09:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
A Firefox Rises Out of the Ashes
November 9, 2004
The Mozilla Foundation releases version 1.0 of the Firefox web browser. Firefox is significant in Internet history because it represented the first serious alternative to the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in s...
2021-11-09 14:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
He Put the “X” in X-Rays
November 8, 1895
German Physics Professor Wilhelm Röntgen stumbles upon what he would later describe as “X-rays” while experimenting with electrical discharge tubes. Curious as to what was causing a faint green glow on a nearby fluorescent ...
2021-11-09 00:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Pets.com Put to Sleep
November 7, 2000
After only 2 years in business, Pets.com shuts down operations. Cited as one of the biggest failures of the dot-com bubble, Pets.com was able to gain significant brand recognition through its extensive marketing campaign and sock puppe...
2021-11-08 03:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostFan made
Here is a hand drawing one of our fans made for me.
2021-11-07 23:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostSetting up Two-Factor Authentication on Discord.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/219576828-Setting-up-Two-Factor-Authentication
2021-11-05 14:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This Day in Tech History.
Android Introduced
November 5, 2007
Google introduces the Android platform, its mobile operating system for cell phones based on a modified version of the Linux operating system. The first Android-based phone would ship in September of 2008. (2021-11-05 14:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The Great LonDini Takes On Cameo
That’s right, Leo is now on Cameo. You can get a personalized video message for your family, friends, or yourself.
2021-11-03 08:18:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Morris Worm Tunnels Through Internet
November 2, 1988
Robert Morris of Cornell University launches a self-replicating worm as part of a research project designed to determine the size of the early Internet. It was intended to count the number...
2021-11-02 14:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
First Transistor Radio Goes on Sale
November 1, 1954
The Industrial Development Engineering Associates company begins selling the Regency TR-1, the world’s first commercial transistor radio. Texas Instruments designed and developed the transistor techno...
2021-11-01 13:59:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History
DMCA Signed into Law
October 28, 1998
US President Bill Clinton signs into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The law is intended to criminalize the production and dissemination of technology designed to circumvent digital copyright protection (known as Digita...
2021-10-28 14:49:13 +0000 UTC View PostMaking of the Masks
Wanted to show these pictures, so you all can seeing the detail that goes in the painting of the masks.