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The Unholy Alliance is Born
July 22, 1980 Representatives from an IBM facility in Boca Raton, Florida, where a small group of engineers were secretly developing the IBM PC, meet with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft to discuss licensing software and an operating system for the still-developing PC. Not having an operating system to offer IBM, Microsoft will…
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Marcel Brown Technology Services Born
April 15, 2002 Budding entrepreneur Marcel Brown starts his first day as a full-time self-employed professional, after years of helping people and small businesses with their technology needs on the side. It was from this humble beginning that a technology empire of unprecedented scale was created. Well, okay, maybe all of that’s not quite true yet, but…
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Twitter.com is Born
January 21, 2000 The domain name twitter.com was registered. However, it wasn’t until 2006 that the domain was purchased by Twitter, Inc. and took the form we know today. The post Twitter.com is Born appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech…
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Domain Name System Created; .com is Born!
January 1, 1985 The Internet’s Domain Name System is created. If only I had the foresight back then to start registering .com names! NORDU.NET was the first domain created on this day, for purposes of hosting the first domain root server, nic.nordu.net. However, the first domain to actually be registered was symbolics.com a couple of months later on…
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Ethernet is Born
Robert Metcalfe’s Original Ethernet Concept November 11, 1973 As invented by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, an Ethernet network functions for the first time. From it’s humble beginnings as a research project at Xerox PARC, Ethernet has developed into the de facto standard for business and home networking. The post Ethernet is Born appeared first…
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Marcel Brown Technology Services Born
April 15, 2002 Budding entrepreneur Marcel Brown starts his first day as a full-time self-employed professional, after years of helping people and small businesses with their technology needs on the side. It was from this humble beginning that a technology empire of unprecedented scale was created, all built from the blood, sweat, and tears of Marcel and…
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Netscape Born
April 4, 1994 Ironically, 19 years to the day after Microsoft was formed, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark create the Mosaic Communications Corporation, which will later be renamed Netscape Communications Corporation. Andreessen had developed the Mosaic web browser while working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. The post…
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Mac OS X is Born
March 24, 2001 Mac OS X 10.0, the first public version of Mac OS X, is released. The code name for this release was Cheetah, although Apple did not start using the code names for marketing purposes until Mac OS X 10.3, Jaguar. The post Mac OS X is Born appeared first on This Day…
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Facebook is Born
February 4, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook, which later becomes Facebook. The world changes forever. And we like it. The post Facebook is Born appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com
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Twitter.com is Born
January 21, 2000 The domain name twitter.com was registered. However, it wasn’t until 2006 that the domain was purchased by Twitter, Inc. and took the form we know today. The post Twitter.com is Born appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech…