1939 – Harvard and IBM signed an agreement to build the Mark I, also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC). It weighed 5 tons and read data from paper tape and punch cards.
1993 – Richard Depew accidentally posted 200 identical messages to news.admin.policy while testing some auto-moderation software. It became the first USENET postings to be referred to as spam.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
1998 – Netscape posted about 8 megabytes of source code for its browser Netscape Communicator 5.0. The code was posted to Mozilla.org, a site Netscape set up for source code-related information.
https://www.cnet.com/news/netscape-sets-source-code-free/
1998 – After three years of development and much wrangling with the Warcraft engine it was originally built on, Blizzard released the iconic game Starcraft.
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/sc/
2013 – IBM shut down the Roadrunner supercomputer, the first computer to run at more than one petaflop.
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It’s our end of month DTNS round table. This month we examine where space exploration and the tech industry intersect, why privatization of space is good or bad, and how the internet is empowering citizen astronomers.
Facebook’s controversial memo, MyFitnessPal gets hacked, and Malaysia’s Central Bank successfully defends itself against cyberattack.
Windows chief Terry Myerson leaves Microsoft after 21 years, President Trump accuses Amazon of not paying taxes, and Apple allows users to download copies of user data the company keeps in anticipation of GDPR.
Microsoft shakes up executive team, Facebook to shut down Partner Categories over data concerns, Bumble sues Match. 
A note by Morgan Stanley suggests Microsoft might be on its way to becoming the 1st trillion dollar company. Has the company’s refocus towards Software-as-a-Service the key reason for that and how long can the company rely on it to maintain its current trajectory? Plus FB attempts to simplify user accessibility to privacy settings and Saudi Arabia and Softbank are planning the world’s largest solar farm.