Windows XP Released
October 25, 2001
Microsoft releases the operating system Windows XP, the successor to both Windows 2000 and Windows ME. Designed to unify the Windows NT line and Windows 95 line of operating systems, Windows XP was not replaced by Microsoft until January...
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Last Flight of the Concorde
October 24, 2003
The Concorde supersonic jet makes its last commercial flight. While being able to cross the Atlantic in about 3.5 hours, low passenger numbers and rising maintenance costs made operating the Concorde unprofitable for British Airw...
2021-10-24 15:03:46 +0000 UTC View Post
NES Hits North America
October 18, 1985
Nintendo releases the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in New York and limited other North American markets. An immediate hit, Nintendo released the game nationwide in February 1986. Along with the NES, Nintendo released eighteen ...
2021-10-19 00:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostThank you to everyone who has enjoyed our Weekly Patreon Training on our Discord server. The training is on every Monday in two sessions, 9:00 pm, and 9:30 pm est. Today we will be discussing the "Do's and Don'ts of the Movement".
2021-10-19 00:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post
IMDb Launched
October 17, 1990
Colin Needham, an English movie fan, launches the “rec.arts.movies movie database”, which would later be known as the Internet Movie Database, or IMDb. An engineer working for HP at the time, by 1996 Needham quit his job to work on IMDb fu...
2021-10-17 15:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Edison Electric Light Company Formed
October 15, 1878
Thomas Edison and a group of investors form the Edison Electric Light Company. The goal of the company was to provide financial support for Edison’s electric light experiments and work on developing an electrical light...
2021-10-15 15:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Atari Launches Home Video Gaming
October 14, 1977
Atari releases their Video Computer System (known as the VCS and later as the Atari 2600). It took two years for the VCS to gain traction, but by 1979 it was the best selling gift of the Christmas season. Once it ...
2021-10-14 13:36:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Steve Jobs's NeXT Computer
October 12, 1988
Hailed by Steve Jobs as a computer “five years ahead of its time”, NeXT, Inc. introduces their NeXT Computer. Due to its cube-shaped case, the computer was often referred to as “The Cube” or “The NeXT Cube”,...
2021-10-12 19:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post
First Phone Call Over Outdoor Wires
October 9, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson demonstrate the first two-way phone call over outdoor wires. Bell and Watson made their call between the cities of Boston and Cambridge. ( 2021-10-10 05:59:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Finish Him!
October 8, 1992
The video game Mortal Kombat is released into arcades. Now one of the most popular fighting game series in history, the original Mortal Kombat became well-known for its graphic display of blood and deadly finishing moves known as “fatalities...
2021-10-08 18:48:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Steve Jobs Passes Away
October 5, 2011
After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, technology visionary and founder of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs passes away. Jobs’ contributions to the technology industry are undeniable. Together with Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs started th...
2021-10-05 19:17:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Sputnik Launches the Space Age
October 4, 1957
The first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth, Sputnik 1, is launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, marking what is now considered the beginning of the Space Age. Surprising the world with its successful launch, Sputnik triggere...
2021-10-05 01:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Ethernet is Drafted
September 30, 1980
Digital, Intel, and Xerox release version 1.0 of the Ethernet specification, known as the Blue Book. Since that time, Ethernet has evolved into the de facto networking standard for local area networks (LAN) in businesses and in the hom...
2021-10-01 12:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Apple Asks Us to Think Different
September 28, 1997
Just a little over two weeks after naming Steve Jobs interim CEO, Apple launches their “Think Different” ad campaign. Designed to reintroduce the Apple brand, the campaign was nearly universally praised by the press, ...
2021-09-28 15:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Google’s Fake Birthday
September 27th, 1998
For some peculiar reason, Google has at times chosen the date of September 27th as their birthday, even though it is more officially September 4th or 7th. Google has no explanation for celebrating their birthday on different day...
2021-09-27 16:30:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The First Personal Computer You Never Heard Of
September 25, 1973
Micro Computer Machines of Canada introduces their MCM/70 microcomputer at a programmer’s user conference in Toronto. Possibly the earliest commercially manufactured device that can now be considered a personal c...
2021-09-26 04:48:13 +0000 UTC View Post
CompuServe Launches MicroNET
September 24, 1979
CompuServe launches the first consumer-oriented online information service, which they called MicroNET. This marked the first time a consumer had access to services such as e-mail. The service was not favored inter...
2021-09-24 14:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-09-23 18:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The First Android Introduced
September 23, 2008
Google and T-Mobile introduce the T-Mobile G1 (also known as the HTC Dream), the world’s first Android-based smartphone. By raw sales numbers, today Android is the world’s most popular smartphone platform. (2021-09-23 17:49:47 +0000 UTC View Post
September 22, 1986
The US District Court for the Northern District of California rules that computer code is protected under copyright law. The ruling stems from the case NEC Corp. v. Intel Corp, which was basically a battle over who had the right to produce x86 processors. The ruling, while fin...
2021-09-22 21:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-09-22 19:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 21, 2003
After fourteen years in space, eight of those as the first man-made object orbiting Jupiter, the unmanned NASA spacecraft Galileo is sent into the atmosphere of the giant planet. NASA decided to end Galileo’s mission in this manner in order to avoid any possibility of it colliding with one of Jupiter’s moons and potentially contaminating it with bacteria from Earth....
2021-09-21 14:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a list of characters from shows that I've watched and am somewhat familiar with. Did I miss anyone? Please comment.
2021-09-21 13:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post
September 20, 1954
The first FORTRAN program is executed. FORTRAN was developed by IBM scientists who were looking for a better way to program the IBM 704 mainframe computer. It quickly became the dominant programming language for scientific and engineering applications and still is used today, e...
2021-09-20 14:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post
September 19, 1982
In a posting made to a Carnegie Mellon bulletin board, Professor Scott Fahlman proposes the first known use of emoticons (also known as smilicons or smileys). While the use of emoticons became widespread during the 80’s and 90’s, their origin remained unknown until Septembe...
2021-09-19 17:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhat do you think? Are we alone in the universe?
2021-09-17 20:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post
NASA rolls out the first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, from its assembly facility to a waiting ...
2021-09-17 20:23:13 +0000 UTC View Post
