This Day in Tech History.
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 l...
2021-10-25 17:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 pass...
2021-10-24 15:03:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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, Nin...
2021-10-19 00:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Training Topic on Discord (10/18/2021).
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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 Databa...
2021-10-17 15:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 fi...
2021-10-15 15:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Patreon Training (10/11/2021).
Introduction to Discord (Discord 101).
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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 ...
2021-10-14 13:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 t...
2021-10-12 19:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 ...
2021-10-10 05:59:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 be...
2021-10-08 18:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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’ contrib...
2021-10-05 19:17:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 consider...
2021-10-05 01:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 evol...
2021-10-01 12:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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....
2021-09-28 15:50:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 offici...
2021-09-27 16:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 Tor...
2021-09-26 04:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
CompuServe Launches MicroNET
September 24, 1979
CompuServe launches the first consumer-oriented online information service, which they called MicroNET. This marke...
2021-09-24 14:12:17 +0000 UTC View PostBANNED OLD SCHOOL LonDini videos - Patreon only
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2021-09-23 18:47:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 ...
2021-09-23 17:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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, ...
2021-09-22 21:44:40 +0000 UTC View PostTikTok vigilante exposes online cyber-bullies who think they’re anonymous
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September 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 i...
2021-09-21 14:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn your opinion, who is the strongest anime character?
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 PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 ...
2021-09-20 14:09:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 em...
2021-09-19 17:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostAliens, Real or BS?
What do you think? Are we alone in the universe?
2021-09-17 20:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post