Quote of the Day.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
-Mark Twain
2022-04-01 13:31:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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This Day in Tech History.
Free … Your … Mind
March 31, 1999
The hugely successful motion picture, The Matrix, is released on this day. Many call it a classic (ok, that’s me), many...
2022-04-01 13:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-Mark Twain
2022-03-28 13:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Tech History.
20-Year Old Bill Gates Gives Address
March 27, 1976
Bill Gates gives the opening address at the First Annual World Altair Computer Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gate...
2022-03-28 13:15:54 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of The Day.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
This Week in Tech History.
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 Labor...
2022-03-22 14:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
2022-03-20 15:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
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 ...
2022-03-20 15:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
— Dalai Lama
2022-03-18 00:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Apple Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
March 17, 1988
Apple Computer famously sues Microsoft Corporation for copyright infringement in its Windows operating system. ...
2022-03-18 00:31:15 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
-John Burroughs
2022-03-16 13:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
First Internet Domain Registered
March 15, 1985
The first Internet domain symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company (2022-03-16 13:28:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Quote of the Day.
If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
-MAYA ANGELOU
2022-03-12 17:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Tech History.
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 T...
2022-03-12 17:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln
This Day in Tech History.
I Invented the Internet
March 9, 1999
United States Vice President Al Gore gives an interview on CNN’s Late Edition in which he states, “During my service in the United S...
2022-03-10 01:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
No one can figure out your worth but you.
-Pearl Bailey
2022-03-06 18:22:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Tech History.
Michelangelo Strikes
March 6, 1992
The Michelangelo virus, so-named because it activates on March 6, the birthday of Michelangelo, begins infecting computers. The virus wil...
2022-03-06 18:18:12 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill
2022-03-03 18:14:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
Michael Dell Steps Down as CEO
March 3, 2004
Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Computers, announces that he will step down from his his CEO role while retaining his posit...
2022-03-03 18:11:20 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
"Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."
—Stephen Chbosky
2022-03-02 15:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Tech History.
Gates Admits Netscape Lockout
March 2, 1997
During a hearing on Microsoft’s alleged antitrust activities, Bill Gates admits Microsoft’s contracts bar Internet content pro...
2022-03-02 15:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
A Person Who Never Made a Mistake Never Tried Anything New.
-Albert Einstein
2022-02-27 22:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
CompUSA Restructures
February 27, 2007
CompUSA announces that it will close 126 retail stores by June and restructure its remaining 103 stores. Eventually those 103 stores a...
2022-02-27 22:50:14 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einstein
This Day in Tech History.
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 re...
2022-02-25 14:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
-Henry Ford
2022-02-23 16:10:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
First Mobile Phone Virus
February 23, 2005
The discovery of the first mobile phone virus, Cabir, is accounced. Specifically, Cabir is a worm which infects phones running the ...
2022-02-23 16:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostQuote of the Day.
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln
2022-02-21 15:20:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis Day in Tech History.
First Telephone Book Published
February 21, 1878
The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut by the New Haven Telephone Company. It lists twenty-one names. Y...
2022-02-21 15:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post