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1975 – Steve Wozniak built the first prototype of the Apple I, the first computer to show letters on the screen as you typed them.

http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Geek-Cult-ebook/dp/B000VUCIZO

1995 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the space station Mir, the first-ever docking of a Shuttle to a Space Station.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/shuttle-atlantis-mir-realization-program-goal/

2007 – The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/29/technology/iphone_launches/index.htm

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1928 – Austrian Friedrich Schmiedl launched his first experimental rocket from a balloon 50,000 feet over Graz, Austria. The rocket was not recovered, but later tests were successful leading to rocket delivered mail.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/style/stamps-when-the-speed-of-rockets-delivered-the-mail.html

1965 – Officials in the US and Europe conducted the first commercial telephone conversation over satellite Early Bird I. The satellite also began operating for television transmission “live via satellite.”

http://appel.nasa.gov/2010/02/25/ao_1-7_sf_history-html/

1982 – Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo with the famous “blibbet” of horizontal lines in the first O. New packaging, and a comprehensive set of retail dealer support materials came along with the blibbet.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/The-History-of-Microsoft-1982

2011 – Google announced their latest social network attempt. Google + let you put friends in circles and share different things with different circles.

http://readwrite.com/2011/06/28/google_circles_googles_radical_new_social_network

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1967 – The world’s first ATM was installed at a Barclays Bank branch in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/8328017.Cash_machine_plaque_unveiled_in_Enfield_Town/

1972 – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney filed incorporation papers for Atari, Inc. and got ready to release its first product, a game called Pong.

http://techland.time.com/2012/06/27/atari-at-40-catching-up-with-founder-nolan-bushnell/

1995 – Spyglass Inc. went public, the year after it began distributing its Spyglass Mosaic Web browser. The Spyglass browser powered the first version of Internet Explorer and had code in IE all the way up to IE 7.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Spyglass(R)+announces+initial+public+offering.-a017142114

2008 – Bill Gates spent his last day as an employee of the company he founded, Microsoft, to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. He remained Chairman of the Board.

http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/june-27-2008-bill-gates-retires-13831280

2012 – Sergey Brin interrupted a Google announcement of the new Google + app to show off the Project Glass smart glasses by having sky divers wearing the prototypes, jump out of a zeppelin and land on the Moscone Convention Center in downtown San Francisco, while streaming video in a Google hangout.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/googlers-skydive-wearing-google-glasses-broadcast-jump-live-to-google/

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1954 – At 5:30 PM the world’s first nuclear power station was connected to the power grid in Obninsk, US.S.R., a small town 60 miles south of Moscow.

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2004/obninsk.html

1974 – At 8:01 AM, a supermarket cashier scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum across a bar-code scanner at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. It was the first product ever checked out by Universal Product Code.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/technology/26barcode.html

1997 – The US Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Communications Decency Act as violating the first amendment protecting free speech.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/26/cda.overturned.hfr/index.html?eref=sitesearch

2014 – Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects lab stole the show at the Google I/O developer conference, with a demonstration of Project Tango’s 3D-mapping capability and Project Ara’s modular phone.

http://mashable.com/2014/06/26/google-project-tango-ara/

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1967 – The very first Consumer Electronics Show opened in New York occupying the Americana and New York Hilton Hotels. It was devoted to home entertainment electronics and featured such advances as portable color TVs and video tape recorders.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/first-consumer-electronics-show/

1981 – After six years as a company, Microsoft incorporated in the state of Washington.

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/InvestorServices/FAQ/default.aspx

1998 – Microsoft released Windows 98 with less hype than Windows 95, but more consumer focus.

http://money.cnn.com/1998/06/25/technology/win98_pkg/

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