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Today in Tech History – – September 21, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 21st, 2018

1866 – Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, England. He would grow up to write under the name H. G. Wells and help form the genre of science fiction.

http://www.britannica.com/biography/H-G-Wells

1999 – Google came out of beta. The young company announced its new Google Scout feature and the launch of its new website, removing the beta designation from the Google search engine.

http://googlepress.blogspot.com/1999/09/googles-new-googlescout-feature-expands.html

2000 – Kevin Mitnick was released from a Lompoc, California prison after almost five years of incarceration.

http://news.cnet.com/Mitnick-released-from-prison/2100-1023_3-235933.html

2015 – Christopher Poole aka ‘moot’ sold 4Chan to its inspiration 2Channel. Hiroyuki Nishimura became 4Chan’s president.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/09/21/4chan-has-been-sold-to-2channel-after-12-years-of-independence/

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Twitch App Yanked From China’s iOS App Store – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 21st, 2018

Amazon’s hardware extravaganza, Skype calling gets Alexa integration, Instagram tests native repost feature.

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Today in Tech History – – September 20, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 20th, 2018

1848 – At noon in the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, members of the former Association of American Geologists and Naturalists met to create the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-celebrates-its-168th-anniversary

1954 – John Backus and his team at IBM ran the first FORTRAN program. FORTRAN stands for FORmula TRANslation and was the first high-level language and compiler developed.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4396778/1st-FORTRAN-program-runs–September-20–1954

1983 – A patent for the RSA Algorithm for public-key cryptography was awarded. RSA stands for Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who first publicly described it in 1977.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=daEsAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

2012 – Makerbot Industries released the Replicator 2 3D printer, meant for non-expert users, and providing 100 micron resolution printing. They also announced the opening of a store in Manhattan.

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/19/a-whole-new-makerbot-introducing-replicator-2-desktop-3d-printer/

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DTNS 3372 – Is There an Echo in Here?

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 20th, 2018

Amazon introduces scores of new Alexa products. New Echo’s, new features for existing echos, and an car based echo. We breakdown the announcement, pick through the product lineup and figure out what exactly you should be excited about.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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Amazon’s All About that Bass – DTH

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 20th, 2018

John Hancock will only give insurance to people with wearables, Amazon announces new stuff and Apple Music comes to Android Auto.

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Today in Tech History – – September 19, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / September 19th, 2018

1982 – In a posting made at 11:44 AM, Professor Scott Fahlman first proposed using the characters 🙂 to indicate jokes on a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University. In the same post he suggested :-(.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

1989 – About 100 hospitals that used software from Shared Medical Systems saw their computers go into a loop when the date was entered. The day was 32,768 days from January 1, 1900, which caused a system overflow.

http://books.google.com/books?id=k29i2RUzg0EC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=september+19+1989+hospital+bug&source=bl&ots=LGg9GLyZD9&sig=fCpVkfK7qoMCUGiKvhpgeFpC48A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aIUlUMSFIsLtiwL914GICg&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=september%2019%201989%20hospital%20bug&f=false

1995 – International Talk Like a Pirate Day was first celebrated by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon. They had come up with the idea on June 6th while playing racquetball, but that was D-Day. The 19th was Summers’ ex-wife’s birthday, and the only day he could reliably remember.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

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DTNS 3371 – Oh, Deere!

Daily Tech News Show/ Shows / September 19th, 2018

Google beats out Amazon in latest sales stats of smart speakers. Will Google try to ensconce its lead as top dog in the field and what will Amazon’s strategy be to get the title back?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Scott Johnson.

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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 236 – Better Call Saul (406), Deadwood (312)

Cordkillers/ Shows / September 19th, 2018

Better Call Saul finds some new conflicts and we give Dead Wood a fond farewell (for now). In two weeks, we’ll begin our next library show: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Winter Movie Draft next week!

00:52 – Summer Movie Draft conclusion

02:44 – Better Call Saul (406)

16:03 – Deadwood (312)

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