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Google’s IPO
August 19, 2004 Google holds its Initial Public Offering (IPO) selling over 22 millions shares at a starting price of $ 85. Google shares closed that day at $ 100.34 and the IPO created many instant millionaires and a few billionaires. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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Google’s IPO
August 19, 2004 Google holds its Initial Public Offering (IPO) selling over 22 millions shares at a starting price of $ 85. Google shares closed that day at $ 100.34 and the IPO created many instant millionaires and a few billionaires. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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HP Incorporated
August 18, 1947 Hewlett-Packard is incorporated by William Hewlett and David Packard, nine years after they sold their first products from their garage in Palo Alto. Hewlett and Packard got their start in 1938 by producing oscillators used to test audio equipment. Since selling eight of their first oscillators to Disney for use in preparing…
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Video Killed the Radio Star; MTV Debuts
August 1, 1981 MTV, presumably standing for “Music Television”, launches on cable TV. As most people know, after the introduction sequence, the first video played was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles. However, a bit of trivia is that the second song played was “You Better Run” by Pat Benatar. MTV had an…
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Netscape Discontinued
March 1, 2008 America Online discontinues the Netscape web browser. Netscape was the first commercial web browser, largely responsible for helping popularize the Internet in the mid-1990’s. Netscape eventually was overtaken by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, as Microsoft included it for free with every copy of Windows. However, the computer code for Netscape lives on as…
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Apple Posts Major Loss
January 12, 1996 Apple Computer announces that it will post a US$ 68 million first quarter loss. It also announces a restructuring plan to reduce the company by a thousand employees. This event leads to the resignation of Apple CEO Michael Spindler, who is replaced by Gil Amelio. Gil Amelio eventually purchases Steve Jobs’ company,…
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iPod Shuffle Introduced
January 11, 2005 Apple introduces the iPod Shuffle, the first iPod to use flash memory and the smallest iPod made to date. The small size and low cost of the iPod Shuffle proved popular, as Apple sold 10 million iPod Shuffles by September 2006. It also paved the way for future flash-based iPods, which have…
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Apple Ships Intel Inside
January 10, 2006 Seven months after announcing that Macintosh computers will transition from PowerPC to Intel, the first Apple computers to ship with Intel processors are released. The Intel-based iMac and MacBook Pro models will soon be followed by the rest of Apple’s Macintosh line in 2006. The importance of this transition can not be…
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Bitcoin Launched
January 9, 2009 Through a posting to The Cryptography Mailing List, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto releases the first version of the Bitcoin software and launches the network of the decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. Six days earlier, Nakamoto had generated the first block of 50 bitcoins, now known as the Genesis Block. Bitcoin has slowly but steadily gained momentum as…
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Record Stay in Space Begins
January 8, 1994 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com