the Day in Tech History

2009 - Craigslist was under fire for their erotic services. Reports of prostitution and other illegal activities were being conducted in the category. Craigslist revamped their site to remove the erotic services and add an "Adult" section - with more moderation. However, South Carolina Attorney Gene...

1980 - The machine was code named "Sara". It was the Apple III and was planned to be the successor to the Apple II. However, the machine had enough failures that Apple had to re-launch this computer in August. Therefore, it was refered to as "Apple Failure III". Then IBM came out with the PC and App...

1997 - Intel changes the processor game a bit with the Pentium II processor. Starting at speed of 200 MHz / 66 MHz bus, the proc had a new design. What was called "Slot 1" processor, Intel got away from the pin architecture to a card slot. You would insert the PII to the slot just like you would m...

1977 - Two days prior, Microsoft send MITS a letter with the allegation that they were not up on royalty payments and if they didn't catch up, MITS would be in breach and the 8080 BASIC would be pulled. MITS sends a letter stating that they are not correct. Ultimately, this would begin a debate th...

1965- You may have heard about Moore's Law. This states that every 18 months, a processor will double in speed. The law's name is coined after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore. He said:

It can’t continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens...

1989- At Spring Comdex, Intel introduced the 25 MHz 80486 microprocessor. The processor would integrate the math co-processor into one chip (the 386's compendium included the 387 math co-processor). Price $900 Wikazine "

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2008- Intel launches their newest processor: the ATOM processor. It's codename was Silverthorne. It is a ATOM Z single processor using the 45 nm die processes. The processor would run at 800 MHZ with a 512 L2 cache and 533 Front side bus.

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1991 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed everyone the first web browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. The Browsers' name was called "WorldWideWeb", but was later changed to "Nexus". Berners-Lee ran it on the NeXTSTEP platform and worked with not only the File Transfer Protocol (FT...

2005 - YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is established by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The website was registered on February 14th, and didn't officially launch until November 2005. Google bought out YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 Billion. With an upload every 20 minutes...

2000 - Kevin Mitnick, who was imprisoned for 5 Years in hacking IBM, Motorola and DEC; then a big chase with the FBI, was released from prision. He was still ordered to not log onto a computer.

2003 - Kevin Mitnick finally logs back onto the Internet after the 3 year probation. He fought the pro...