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 Lud...

1995- The worlds first Wiki was created as Ward Cunningham invites people to add and edit content. WikiWikiWeb was officially launched on March 25th, as A Wiki is a database that can be a community collaboration. Six years later, Wikipedia is launched.

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1983 - The Lotus Development Corporation releases Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM computers. Mitchell Kapor, founder and friend of the developers to VisiCalc, developed this program that will soon outsell their friends program by the end of the year. The design was awfully close to VisiCalc, but the program s...

1982 - the Commodore 64 was introduced by Commodore international. If featured a 6510 processor, 64KB RAM, 20 KB ROM, Microsoft BASIC and was yours for $600. Add the Ulimax, with 2KB for another $149.

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Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion from the creators. Also, Tim Berners-Lee launches the first Web page...

Microsoft releases Windows for Workgroups, v. 3.11 - Also, Direct X 9 is released...

1999 - Dataquest, a company that monitors PC sales, has shown a trend that Dell had maintained a 5% lead over Apple for 2 consecutive quarters. Therefore, Dell had become #1 in computer sales for 1999. Of course, a recent report mentioned that Apple could now buy Dell if it so inclined...

The Vixen and Encore computers, by Osborn, debuted. Also, Windows XP was released by Microsoft...

The Nintendo Entertainment System, along with the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.) and the Zapper light gun are released in New York in 1985...

In 1985 Intel released the 80386 DX processor. The 275,000 transistor chip was a big jump from the 20 MHz 286...