the Day in Tech History

2005 - Yahoo acquires Ludicorp and the popular photo sharing site Flickr. No details were released on this purchase. On Yahoo's blog they outline that Flickr will continue to run as-is, while Yahoo Photos will incorporate some of the ideals into it's site. The biggest issue from the deal was that Lu...

(http://www.geekazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/woz.jpg)1976 - Steve Wozniak, an employee at Hewlett Packard at the time, builds his first Apple computer. It was for the Homebrew club and incorporates his designs. The computer club is held the next day and Steve Jobs meets up with Woz, where th...

1996 - It was the single largest online event at the time. 24 Hours in cyberspace was coordinated by Rick Smolan to capture photos representing a day in the life of the internet user. Photos would be handed in from around the world and put out on Cyber24 dot com. The website is no longer in service...

1988 - Spectrum Holobyte releases the puzzle game Tetris for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC. This was the first game imported from the Soviet Union. The game was written by Alexi Paszitnov and Vagim Gerasimov at the Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The Commodore 64 version wou...

2003 - 5:30 AM. SQL Slammer worm caused a DDOS, infecting 75,000 within ten minutes. Christopher J. Rouland, the CTO of ISS, named it Slammer. The worm exploited a buffer overflow bug in Microsoft's SQL Server and Desktop Engine database products...

1984 - Apple created the opportunity of a lifetime with the Macintosh. It was the first mouse-driven computer and Graphical User Interface (GUI) machine. The machine would have a release date of Jan 24, and held a 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor. It had 128 KB DRAM and came with a 9" black-and-w...

(http://www.geekazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/virusscan-125x125.jpg)1990 - The Chicago Task raids the home of Craig Neidorf - A.K.A. Knight Lightning. The group, along with Bellsouth, are looking for information on an article published in the hacker rag "PHRACK - Control Office Administration...

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1968 - Ralph Baer applies for a patent on a TV game system he designed. This, of course, sparks the Video Game age and Ralph becomes the inventor and Pioneer of the field. In 2006, he was honored with a National Medal of Technology...

1889 - Herman Hollerith obtains a patent for his Tabulating machine. It's a punch card system that will be used in compiling consensus statistics beginning in 1890.

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1972 - HP introduces the HP-35 - which was the first handheld scientific calculator. It was named after the fact it had 35 buttons. The unit weighed 9 oz and cost $395. However, this would ultimately be dubbed "The slide-rule killer"...