Today in Tech History – August 22, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 22nd, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1932 – The BBC began public television broadcasts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1146543.stm

1955 – The first computer user group, SHARE was founded by users of IBM’s Model 704 computer. The first meeting was held in the basement conference room of the RAND Corporation.

http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0567.htm

2007 – The Storm botnet sent out a record 57 million virus-infected emails. It failed to take down the Internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090803175547/http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/clay-dillow/culture-buffet/fast-history-storm-botnet-sends-57-million-emails-one-day-2007

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DTNS 3099 – When electricity picked up steam

Daily Tech News Show / August 21st, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comAndroid Oreo is official, AI experts warn against autonomous lethal weapons, and what steam engines and computers have in common.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 21, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 21st, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Intel’s 8th-generation chips, Xbox One X pre-orders begin, Warnings about lethal Autonomous Weapons.

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Today in Tech History – August 21, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 21st, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1888 – William Seward Burroughs received four patents, including one for a ‘Calculating Machine’. It would power the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

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

1973 – Sergey Brin was born in Moscow. His family emigrated to the US in 1979. He would grow up to co-develop a search engine with Larry Page and co-found Google.
http://www.biography.com/people/sergey-brin-12103333

1993 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer three days before it was supposed to enter orbit. As it began to pressurize fuel tanks, the spacecraft’s transmitters went silent and it was never heard from again.

http://science.nasa.gov/missions/mars-observer/

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Today in Tech History – August 20, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 20th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK, began operating in Michigan. Now, WWJ, it is owned by CBS.

http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/1stfacts.txt

1930 – W2XCR began broadcasting at 2.1-2.2 mHz from Jersey City, New Jersey, with the first demonstration of telecasts meant for the home. A half-hour program, hosted by the cartoonist Harry Hirschfeld, was viewed on screens placed in a store in the Hotel Ansonia, the Hearst building, and a home at 98 Riverside Drive.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xcr.html

1970 – John Carmack was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. He would grow up to co-found id software and bring the world Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/A-Ca/Carmack-John.html#b

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Today in Tech History – August 19, 2017

Today in Tech History/ Writing / August 19th, 2017

Today in Tech History logo1839 – At a crowded meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, Louis Daguerre demonstrated the process of making photos called daguerreotypes.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v144/n3642/abs/144341b0.html

1906 – Philo Farnsworth was born on Indian Creek in Beaver County, Utah. He would grow up to inspire the beloved professor character on Futurama. He also gets credit for inventing the first completely electronic television.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm

1934 – Gordon Bell was born in Kirksville, Missouri. He would grow up to help build PDP computers and oversee the development of DEC’s VAX series.

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/bell_gordon.htm

2003 – Dave Winer posted an experiment with RSS enclosures. It allowed subscribers with the right aggregator to have an MP3 of an interview Chris Lydon did delivered with no click-wait. This would lead to Christopher Lydon becoming the first podcaster before it was called podcasting.

http://scripting.com/2003/08.html#When:9:49:05PM

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DTNS 3098 – A Quantta of Solace

Daily Tech News Show / August 18th, 2017

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comChinese Cyber-court, ATT&T’s big loss, and mining the Deep and the Dark Web.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Shannon Morse and Len Peralta.

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Len Peralta’s “Devouring the Deep Web”

Daily Tech Headlines – August 18, 2017

Daily Tech News Show / August 18th, 2017

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Reddit hosts videos now, Skype for Mac gets redesigned, AT&T loses lawsuit to slow competitors in Louisville.

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