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The First Cell Phone Call
April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper, considered the “father of the cellular phone”, makes the first cell phone call on a New York City street. The post The First Cell Phone Call 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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Microsoft’s First Hardware Product
April 2, 1980 Microsoft announces its first hardware product, the Z80 SoftCard. The SoftCard is a microprocessor that plugs into the Apple II personal computer allowing it to run programs written for the CP/M operating system. CP/M was a very popular OS for early personal computers along with much of the software written for it. In…
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Twister First Movie on DVD
March 25, 1996 The movie Twister becomes the first featured film put on DVD. FYI, it sounds really good in surround sound! The post Twister First Movie on DVD 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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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 post The World’s First Tweet appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History…
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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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NFL Adopts Instant Replay … For The First Time
March 11, 1986 The NFL adopts a limited instant replay system. This system was dropped, however, in 1992 before the current instant replay system was instated in 1999. In effect, you could say the current system is an instant replay itself! The post NFL Adopts Instant Replay … For The First Time appeared first on…
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First Cray Supercomputer Shipped
March 4, 1977 The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This supercomputer, which costs nineteen million dollars, will be used to design sophisticated weapons systems. The system is a cylindrical tower seven feet tall, nine feet in diameter, and weighs about 5.5 tons. The machine produced so…
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On The First Day …
March 1, 1976 Steve Wozniak completes the basic design for the circuit board of a (relatively) easy-to-use personal computer. The next day he shows it to the Homebrew Computer Club, which Steve Jobs attends. Jobs realizes the potential and convinces Wozniak not to give away the schematics but instead produce printed circuit boards to sell.…
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The First Web Browser Introduced
February 26, 1991 Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor. The post The First Web Browser Introduced 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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First Fly-By of Uranus
February 24, 1986 Voyager 2 performs the first fly-by of the planet Uranus. Voyager 2 still is transmitting data to this day, and a Twitter feed reports on its progress. The post First Fly-By of Uranus appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This…