the Day in Tech History

2000 - US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a forty-three page conclusions of law, ruling that Microsofttried to monopolize the web browser market. The next day, Microsoft stock drops 15% as an aftershock.

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Atari declares today Pac Man Day...

1987 - IBM releases a flurry of new items on this day. The most notable was the IBM PS/2 - Their first 80386 system using a 3.5 floppy (720kb or 1.44 MB discs), MFM hard drive, PC-DOS and OS/2. Multiple models were released, including the Model 60 (10 MHz 286 processor) and Model 80 ( 20 MHz 386 pro...

1994- Novell purchases Quattro Pro and WordPerfect for $145 million. However, the company ended up selling both software programs to Corel in 1996.

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1986-$21.00 a share was the first price for stock in Microsoft. 2.5 million shares were sold, raising the price to 27.75 and netting the company 61 million initially. Since then, the highest it has gone was 57.91 on Dec 24th, 1999. Yet with about 10 stock splits and several dividends in the 24 years...

1997 - Although the MP3 player was technically been around since the 80's, the first Digital Music Player was first introduced. Eiger Labs shows off the MPMan at CeBit. For $250, you get a 32 MB model to hold 8 of your favorite songs. The 1998 release was only shadowed by the Rio PMP300, which overs...

1993 - The PowerOpen Association is formed to conform to the PowerOpen environment, which is an open standard for running forms of Unix on PowerPC platforms. Apple, IBM, Motorola are all in on this group.

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1933- Charles Darrow creates the game Monopoly, with designers Elizabeth Magie, Louis Thun, and Fred Thun. There were a few other board games before Monopoly, like "The Landlord game", which Monopoly was loosely derived from. The board is based on Atlantic City and the playing pieces were models fro...

1950- Silly Putty - the stretchable goo that picks up print off a newspaper - is introduced. Peter Hodgson first introduced James Wright's idea by packaging one ounces into a plastic egg. Interesting facts about Silly Putty - It has some adhesive attributes, which can make it a great way to pick up...