Today in Tech History – – June 3, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 3rd, 2018

1889 – The first long-distance transmission of electricity took place, sending power from a hydroelectric generator at Willamette Falls 14 miles to 55 street lights at 4th and Main in Portland, Oregon.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMH4P_FIRST_High_Tension_Power_Line_Portland_Oregon

1948 – Ed Brown Jr., a former Navy pilot, opened a fly-in movie theater near Wall Township, New Jersey. You could also drive in. The theater had space for 500 cars and 25 small planes could land in a nearby airfield and taxi over to the theater.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8593

1965 – Gemini 4 launched on the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performed the first US spacewalk.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/gemini-iv/gemini-iv.html

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Today in Tech History – – June 2, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 2nd, 2018

1883 – Thomas Edison and Stephen D. Field built the world’s first elevated electric railway. It was a narrow-gauge 3-foot-wide track in the gallery around the edge of the main exhibition building of the Chicago Railway Exhibition. It ran nine miles per hour.

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/06/0602first-chicago-el-runs-indoors/

1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applied for British Patent number 12039 regarding a system of telegraphy using Hertzian waves. We’d call it radio.

http://marconisociety.org/about/marconi-family/

2003 – The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. It was the fastest planetary probe to be built.

http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEMFU55V9ED_0.html

2014 – Apple announced OS X Yosemite and iOS8 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Among the features were the ability to answer phone calls on your OS X computer, the ability for iOS apps to talk directly to each other, third=party keyboards for iOS, and a new programming language called Swift.

http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-targets-google-wwdc-2014-os-x-mavericks-ios-8-1593874

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DTNS LABS – ART – Road to Web Wellness

Daily Tech News Show / June 2nd, 2018

DTNS Labs LogoScott got hacked, but let’s make some lemonade from that big lemon. How do you get your artwork and other content in front of people in 2018 without becoming a data manager? Scott has some thoughts.

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Today in Tech History – – June 1, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 1st, 2018

1890 – The US Census Bureau began using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine for the first time. This gave Hollerith the basis to later found his Tabulating Machine Company, which was one of four companies that merged to form IBM.

http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/library/this_week_in_reading_0601-0607.asp

1944 – The Colossus Mark 2 was put into service at Bletchley Park in Great Britain, just in time for the invasion at Normandy.

http://books.google.com/books?id=gfL4ky-TQOMC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=june+1+1944+colossus&source=bl&ots=LZ3i_tbzIt&sig=8RKO7B38Hpxplje8ydxyToLLB8E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mr6iT5WVLuqciALEgaWMBw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw

1999 – The Windows version of music-sharing program Napster was released.

http://www.oldapps.com/napster.php

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DTNS 3295 – Winged iPads

Daily Tech News Show / June 1st, 2018

ARM releases the specs on their new 7nm SoC design. Facebook shuts down its trending site from the top its page. California launches two pilot programs to allow autonomous vehicles pick up passengers.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang and Rob Demilo.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 1, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / June 1st, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Facebook kills off Trending section, Nokia sells Withings health device division back to its founder and Fortnite might come to the Nintendo Switch.

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#325 – Mythology Ideology

Shows/ Sword and Laser / May 31st, 2018

We’re very excited about the Expanse coming back and Gail Carriger’s plans and that the “What are we drinking” segment got a good review! Plus the different takes on mythology from our two latest book picks.

Today in Tech History – – May 31, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / May 31st, 2018

1941 – Electric eye detectors were first used to measure high-jumping height. A track meet of the Schenectady, NY, Patrolmen’s Association used equipment designed by General Electric, comprising of a movable light source and four electric eyes.

http://books.google.com/books?id=9iYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA112#v=onepage&q&f=false

1943 – Chief consultant John Mauchly and chief engineer John Presper Eckert began leading the military commission on the new computer ENIAC. They would take one year to design the computer and 18 months to build it.

http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htm

2006 – Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay website and shut it down. The site relaunched from servers outside Sweden.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-five-years-after-the-raid-110531/

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DTNS 3294 – Film is the New Vinyl

Daily Tech News Show / May 31st, 2018

The influential VC, Mary Meeker, has released her highly anticipated 2018 Internet Trends report. We break down her analysis and discuss the implications of her findings.

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

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