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UAlbany WBB Goes For America East History on Wednesday, Hosts Binghamton
UAlbany WBB Goes For America East History on Wednesday, Hosts Binghamton Game Notes | Buy Tickets | Watch on AmericaEast.tv | Listen on WCDB | Live Stats ALBANY, N.Y. – The Great Danes go for their 37th-straight conference win, trying to match an America East record, on Wednesday, hosting in-state rival Binghamton for a 7…
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UAlbany WBB Goes For America East History on Wednesday, Hosts Binghamton
UAlbany WBB Goes For America East History on Wednesday, Hosts Binghamton Game Notes | Buy Tickets | Watch on AmericaEast.tv | Listen on WCDB | Live Stats ALBANY, N.Y. – The Great Danes go for their 37th-straight conference win, trying to match an America East record, on Wednesday, hosting in-state rival Binghamton for a 7…
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UAlbany WBB Goes to Binghamton in Battle of New York Rivals
UAlbany WBB Goes to Binghamton in Battle of New York Rivals Game Notes | Live Stats | AmericaEast.tv | Buy Tickets BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – UAlbany will take its undefeated conference record to Binghamton on Monday, January 20, taking on the Bearcats for a 7 p.m. game at the BU Events Center. The Great Danes will…
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Wikipedia Goes Online; Bookshelves Clear Up
January 15, 2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. Door-to-door encyclopedia salespeople mourn while bookshelves everywhere suddenly have more room for other books. Previous post: NCSA Opens This Day in Tech History
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UAlbany Goes to Hartford for America East Title Rematch on ESPN3
UAlbany Goes to Hartford for America East Title Rematch on ESPN3 Game Notes | Watch Live on ESPN3 | Live Stats | Buy Tickets HARTFORD, Conn. – The Great Danes travel east to Connecticut for a rematch of last year’s America East title game, taking on Hartford at the Chase Family Arena on Sunday, January…
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Y2K Comes and Goes
January 1, 2000 After years of hysteria regarding the Y2K bug, the world’s computers begin using the date 2000 with no major catastrophes. There is still debate whether the “Year 2000 Problem” was overblown by the technology industry or if the frantic updating done by armies of software developers leading up to Y2K averted disaster.…
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Altair 8800 Goes on Sale; Inspires PC Era
December 19, 1974 Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, otherwise known as MITS, begins selling the Altair 8800 microcomputer kit. As the base computer used toggle switches for input and LEDs for output, it was far from a personal computer as we know it today. However, it is one of the most important computers in history,…
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The Internet Goes Hollywood
December 18, 1998 The Warner Brothers motion picture You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, is released to theaters. While mostly known as a romantic comedy, the film was chock-full of technology symbolism. Primarily I find interesting that the movie’s themes of business and technology was foreshadowing larger charges to come. Starting with the…
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Polaroid Instant Camera Goes on Sale
November 28, 1948 Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, 57 units of the first commercial instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, go on sale at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston. Producing sepia toned photographs in about one minute, the Model 95 became a hit almost as quickly. Polaroid believed that 57 units would be…
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First Transistor Radio Goes on Sale
November 1, 1954 The Industrial Development Engineering Associates company begins selling the Regency TR-1, the world’s first commercial transistor radio. Texas Instruments designed and developed the transistor technology who then partnered with IDEA to design and manufacturer the completed radio. The TR-1 sold over 100,000 units, ushering in the commercial transistor industry. This Day in Tech…