Day in Tech History

Day in Tech History

Daily rundown of Technology History

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January 16, 1956: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment – SAGE Disclosed to Public

January 16, 2025 • 8 mins

SAGE - Semi-Automatic Ground Environment

1956 – The U.S. Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) was disclosed to the public. SAGE is a computer that connected hundreds of radar stations in the US and Canada as a ...
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January 15, 1990: The AT&T Reboot

January 15, 2025 • 8 mins

AT&T

1990 – AT&T suffers the oddest outage natio...
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January 14, 1973: Live Via Satellite – Elvis Presley!

January 14, 2025 • 4 mins

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January 13, 2000: Steve Ballmer Takes the Microsoft Reins

January 13, 2025 • 5 mins

Steve Ballmer

2000 – Microsoft CEO Bill Gates announces he will be stepping down from his role but remain on the Board and embrace a new role as Chief software architect. Steve Ballmer will take over the CEO role and also remain president. Love him or...
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January 12, 1966: Batman on ABC

January 12, 2025 • 5 mins

The Batman TV Show

1966 – Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson entered our lives via ABC on Wednesdays. The television series “Batman” debuted with the episode Hi Diddle Riddle. Each half hour episode contained either part 1 or part 2 of the dynamic...
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January 11, 2001: Podcasting is Technically Created

January 11, 2025 • 7 mins

Dave Winer

2001– Dave Weiner added a new functionality to the RSS feed called “Enclosure“. It was defined as passing any audio file (mp3, wav, ogg, etc), video file (mpg, mp4, avi, mov, etc), PDF, or ePub (electronic publication) into...
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January 10, 1996: TI-83 Graphing Calculator

January 10, 2025 • 8 mins

TI-83 Graphing Calculator

1996 – Texas Instruments ...
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January 9, 2001: Mac OSX, iTunes Media Platform Announced

January 9, 2025 • 6 mins

iTunes

At MacWorld 2001, Steve Jobs announced Mac OSX – the base OS for Apple for the next couple decades. With Darwin, an open source BSD Unix service, 2D (Quartz), 3D (OpenGL) and Quicktime (QT5). The programming language of Classic, Carbon and Cocoa allowe...
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January 8, 1940: Bell Labs Complex Computer

January 8, 2025 • 7 mins

1940 – a full-scale relay calculator designed by Bell Labs engineer Dr. George Stibitz, becomes operational. The machine was first designed in February 1938, and construction began in April, 1939. Although the device was ready by October, 1939, i...
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January 7, 1943: Nikola Tesla Passed Away

January 7, 2025 • 9 mins

Nikola Tesla

Born in 1856, Nikola Tesla was the inventor of alternating current. Tesla even worked for Edison from 1882 to 1886. He then started the Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing company in where he worked more on AC electricity. This st...
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January 6, 2001: Microsoft XBox Unveiled

January 6, 2025 • 8 mins

XBox Read more

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January 5, 1984: GNU Project Founded

January 5, 2025 • 8 mins

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January 4, 1904: Thomas Edison Electrocutes an Elephant

January 4, 2025 • 9 mins

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January 3, 1977: Apple Computer Corporation is Incorporated

January 3, 2025 • 7 mins

Apple

1977 – Steve Jobs ...
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January 2, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen BASIC for MITS

January 2, 2025 • 4 mins

Bill Gates Read more

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January 1, 1994: Happy Anniversary Bill and Melinda Gates

January 1, 2025 • 8 mins

Bill and Melinda Gates (French) Read more

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December 31: Technology Roundup

December 31, 2024 • 11 mins

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December 30, 2008: Does Facebook Allow Breastfeeding?

December 30, 2024 • 3 mins

Facebook Read more

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December 29, 2004: Commodore Acquired

December 29, 2024 • 4 mins

Commodore

2004 – Once Commodore dropped from the market in the 80’s, it pretty much started bouncing around the world from company to company. Ultimately it landed in the lap of  KMOS – a Deleware company. However, on this day, Dutch Manufacturer Tulip se...
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December 28, 1995: 200 Sites Blocked by Compuserve

December 28, 2024 • 3 mins

Compuserve

1995 – Compuserve blocks access to over 200 sites that have explicit content. They do it to avoid issue with the German Government. The sites would be blocked until Feb 13, 1996 when all but 5 sites were restored. IBM 1420 Bank Transit System i...
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