the Day in Tech History

1887 - Herman Hollerith is a pioneer. His creations in the 19th century were detrimental in modern computing. Herman Hollerith's creations helped the United States create a Census. On June 8th he received a patent for a punch card reader, which was used in many fashions, including school attendan...

2005 - Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then showed off the Mac OS X running on aPentium 4 CPU. The reasoning was that PowerPC chips took too much power to run and also ran hotter than an Intel chip...

1938 - Pedro, the Voder is the name for the first computer that could produce speech. Bell Telephone brought out Pedro to the Franklin institute to show the new option off. Of course, years later, we can replicate a persons sound, which was shown off when Roger Ebert was on Oprah taking for the firs...

1896 - Henry Ford gets ready to test drive the first Quadricycle (a.k.a. Car). Only one problem - They didn't make the garage door big enough. Out comes the Ax - A couple chops and a wider door was created. The car ran 2 speed, but could not go in reverse.

It's all in the book - the ford century...

1984 - Commodore adds to their line of computers. The Plus/4 - originally called the 264 - was released for $300. The Commodore 16 or TED-16 looked like a Commodore 64 with 16KB of RAM. It was called the "Learning Machine" and sold for $100...

1997 - If anyone remembers the Windows 95 days, you may have had Pointcast playing as the screensaver. It was a push notification site that would send you content. Pretty innovative for it's time, yet, time ended up getting the best of it. Creator and CEO Chris Hassett stepped down and Pointcast was...

2009 - Back in 1996, Psion trademarked the term "Netbook" to reflect a line of sub-notebook computers. Equipped with a StrongARM processor, the netbook debuted in 1999. However, Psion decided to shelve the device after the 2003 version (Netbook Pro) didn't meet expectation. Therefore, when Intel dec...

2008 - The Mozilla foundation made an interesting statement - They want to be in the Guinness book of world records as the most downloaded browser with Firefox 3.0. Download day was June 17th. After a problematic start, they hit their record over 8 million. Enough to make the Guinness book...

2002 - Netflix, the rental movie-by-mail service, initiates their initial Public offering. They sell 5,500,000 starting at $15 a share. They sold an additional 825,000 the next day.

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1987 - Compuserve releases the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) standard. Using 256 colors, it could greatly reduce pictures for the web. Photos in the GIF format would look pixelated and posturized, though...