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Frickin’ Laser Beams Patented
March 22, 1960 The first patent on a laser is issued to Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes, who assign it to Bell Telephone Laboratories. Still, no one has figured out how to attach these “lasers” to the heads of sharks. Throw me a frickin’ bone here! Previous post: The World’s First Tweet This Day…
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The World’s First Tweet
March 21, 2006 Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sends the world’s first (non-automated) tweet: inviting co-workers A note to future entrepreneurs: when doing the “first” of anything, it may be for posterity so try to be interesting. Kthnx. Previous post: Yahoo Acquires Flickr This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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Yahoo Acquires Flickr
March 20, 2005 Yahoo acquires the company Ludicorp along with its popular photo-sharing site Flickr. It is reported that Flickr currently hosts more than 5 billion photos. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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IBM.com and sun.com Registered
March 19, 1986 The domains ibm.com and sun.com come online. These domains are considered the 11th and 12th oldest domains in history. Previous post: Arcade Game of Many Firsts This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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Arcade Game of Many Firsts
March 18, 1974 Atari Introduces Gran Trak 10. It is the first arcade game to use solid state read-only memory (ROM) to store sprites for each car, the game timer, the race track, and the score. As such, it’s the the first game to have defined characters rather than mathematically manipulated dots. The game’s controls, which…
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Apple Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
March 17, 1988 Apple Computer famously sues Microsoft Corporation for copyright infringement in its Windows operating system. Apple eventually lost the lawsuit in 1995. Previous post: The First Wiki This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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The First Wiki
March 16, 1995 The worlds first Wiki, WikiWikiWeb was created as Ward Cunningham invites people to add and edit content. A Wiki is a database that can be a community collaboration. Cunningham has said the inspiration for the name Wiki came from the Wiki Wiki Shuttle bus he learned of during a trip to Hawaii. Six years…
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Bell Labs Announces TRADIC
March 14, 1955 AT&T Bell Laboratories announces the completion of the first fully transistorized computer, TRADIC. TRADIC, which stood for TRAnsistor DIgital Computer, contained nearly 800 transistors, which replaced the standard vacuum tube and allowed the machine to operate on fewer than 100 watts which was one-twentieth the power required by a comparable vacuum tube computer. Previous…
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Microsoft Goes Public
March 13, 1986 Ten years after the company’s founding, Microsoft Corporation stock goes public at $ 21 per share. The stock, which eventually closed at $ 27.75 a share, peaked at $ 29.25 a share shortly after the opening. It is said that the rising value of Microsoft stock has made an estimated 4 billionaires and 12,000…
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Hulu is Unleashed
March 12, 2008 The video streaming service Hulu is launched to the public. Hulu has since become a focal point for the ongoing development of “streaming TV” along with the agonizing by TV networks and movie studios. It also revealed Alec Baldwin to be an alien, which didn’t surprise anybody. This Day in Tech History…