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Today in Tech History – September 24, 2016
1979 – CompuServe began offering a consumer version of its dial-up online information service called MicroNET. The name would later be changed to CompuServe and offer public email among other online services.
1993 – Broderbund Software released the game Myst, for the Macintosh computer. It became a record-setting bestseller and helped popularize CD-ROM drives.
1997 – Ultima Online launched, revolutionizing online gaming by supporting thousands of simultaneous players in a persistent shared world.
2013 – Valve announced their new Steam OS, a free version of Linux built around the Steam video game service.
2014 – The shellshock vulnerability was made public. The way bash handled variables could allow malicious code to be run on computers running Linux and OS X. This meant routers, webcams and other connected devices were also vulnerable.
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DTNS 2863 – #forsale
Twitter may be up for sale and Facebook has been fudging video numbers, accidentally. Plus Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts ont he YouTube Heroes community effort and talks with Tom Merritt about why privacy matters.
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Daily Tech Headlines – September 23, 2016
Twitter up for sale? Yahoo confirms breach, Facebook misreported video views.
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Today in Tech History – September 23, 2016
1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Mario came much later.
1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. It began orbit normally, but after it went behind the planet and out of range, it never made contact again. It was later determined that the approach attitude was wrong because software put out imperial units instead of metric units.
1999 – Two years after its founding, Netflix launched its subscription DVD rental service which proved much more popular than renting DVDs individually by mail.
2002 – Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 was released. It was the first public version of the web browser, that would become Mozilla Firefox.
2008 – The T-Mobile G1 launched, the first phone to use Google’s Android OS, as it began it’s competition against the barely year-old iPhone.
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DTNS 2862 – Yahoo gets their breaches in a bunch
The scoop behind Yahoo’s 500 million account breach and Lenovo’s inability to run Linux on some laptops. Plus Justin Robert Young and Tom Merritt discuss Twitter’s ability to predict elections.
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Daily Tech Headlines – September 22, 2016
Yahoo once more may announce a breach, Twitter’s transparency report, Rocket Internet cuts costs.
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Today in Tech History – September 22, 2016
1791 – Michael Faraday was born in south London. He grew up to discover electromagnetic induction and coined the terms ‘electrode’, ‘cathode’ and ‘ion.’ He also lent his name to the Faraday cage.
1986 – In NEC Corp. Vs. Intel Corp., the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that microprograms are copyrightable literary works. And so all the trouble began.
2011 – Facebook announced its new Timeline feature which would collect all your posts and materials in chronological order, replacing the old profile.
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DTNS 2861 – Motion Sickness or Regular Sickness?
Is it risky to use Allo? Should Apple by McLaren Auto? Plus Chris Kohler talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about the Tokyo Game Show.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 137
Mr. Robot (211), Justified (309-310).
01:08 – Mr. Robot (211)
25:51 – Justified (309-310)