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Mir Falls From the Sky
March 23, 2001 The Russian space station Mir burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere after fifteen years in orbit. The debris that isn’t burned up falls safely into the Pacific ocean between Chile and New Zealand, in a region from which governments had routed planes and ships away. The station, which was launched in 1986,…
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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. The World’s First Tweet is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech…
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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. Yahoo Acquires Flickr is original content of This Day in Tech History. 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. IBM.com and sun.com Registered is original content of This Day in Tech History. 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. Apple Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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First Internet Domain Registered
March 15, 1985 The first Internet domain symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company. First Internet Domain Registered is original content of This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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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. …
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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. Hulu is Unleashed is original…