Today in Tech History – – June 25, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 25th, 2018

1967 – The very first Consumer Electronics Show opened in New York occupying the Americana and New York Hilton Hotels. It was devoted to home entertainment electronics and featured such advances as portable color TVs and video tape recorders.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/first-consumer-electronics-show/

1981 – After six years as a company, Microsoft incorporated in the state of Washington.

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/InvestorServices/FAQ/default.aspx

1998 – Microsoft released Windows 98 with less hype than Windows 95, but more consumer focus.

http://money.cnn.com/1998/06/25/technology/win98_pkg/

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DTNS 3311 – Strawberry Robots Forever

Daily Tech News Show / June 25th, 2018

At VidCon 2018 YouTube announced new revenue opportunities for creators and Instagram unveiled IGTV for longer format video content. We asked YouTube Lamarr Wilson for a creator’s perspective on these new policies and how it will change things moving forward.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 25, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / June 25th, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple Airpods might get noise-canceling, Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 takes on Intel for PCs,Google’s Android security feature could also be used as DRM.

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Today in Tech History – – June 24, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 24th, 2018

1963 – The first demonstration of a home video recorder was made at the BBC News Studios in London. A Telcan, short for television in a can, could record up to 20 minutes of black and white television using quarter-inch tape on a reel to reel system.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/aNhfBgCgSByEMns5XPxXqA

1993 – “Severe Tire Damage,” conducted the first known Internet concert. The band set their gear up on the patios of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and sent their show out on the Internet Multicast Backbone, or Mbone.

http://www.std.org/text/press/internetguiden.html

1994 – Geffen Records released the first major label song for digital download. Aerosmith’s “Head First” was available on CompuServe as a .WAV file. It took more than an hour to download.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/go-aerosmith-how-head-first-became-the-first-song-available-for-digital-download-20-years-ago-today

2000 – President Clinton gave his weekly radio address live on the Internet for the first time.

http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-09.html

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Today in Tech History – – June 23, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 23rd, 2018

1912 – Alan Turing was born in London, although his father worked for the Indian Civil Service and his parents lived in India. He helped break the code of the German enigma machine and developed the Turing test for artificial intelligence.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing

1943 – Vint Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up to become known as one of the fathers of the Internet, most famously for his co-creation of the protocols underlying TCP/IP.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148576/bio

1983 – Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel ran the first successful test of the automated, distributed Domain Name System at the University of Southern California School of Engineering’s Information Sciences.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/dns-marks-20th-birthday-128

1996 – The Nintendo 64 launched in Japan becoming the first home console to rely on the analog stick as its primary control.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/09/24/nintendo-64-launching-a-legacy

2005 – Reddit launched online with a submission about the Downing Street memo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/33809408@N00/315068778/in/photostream/

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Today in Tech History – – June 22, 2018

Today in Tech History/ Writing / June 22nd, 2018

1675 – Britain’s King Charles II established the observatory at Greenwich with the main purpose of determining precise longitudes to aid in navigation. This purpose led to Greenwich being marked as the prime meridian and later Greenwich Mean Time.

http://books.google.com/books?id=KXFLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=june+22+1675+greenwich+royal+warrant&source=bl&ots=Wq9jymLyYF&sig=aIu0NBzBNBOKCLwJfhH-gS1D-Pc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=He65UYGiMeWKjALA_IDgDw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=june%2022%201675%20greenwich%20royal%20warrant&f=false

1799 – The first definitive prototype metre bars (mètre des Archives) and kilograms were constructed in platinum.

http://www.sizes.com/units/meter.htm

1996 – Quake, the successor to the first-person shooter Doom was released by id Software with music composed by Trent Reznor. The Quake engine offered full real-time 3D rendering and had early support for 3D acceleration through OpenGL. It also added several multiplayer options.

http://rome.ro/news/2016/6/22/happy-20th-birthday-quake

1999 – The first demonstration of live rats directly controlling a robot arm with their thoughts was published by Nature Neuroscience.

https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news-listing/rats-operate-robotic-arm-brain-activity

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DTNS 3310 – Sewing the Seeds of Success

Daily Tech News Show / June 22nd, 2018

What’s the state of diversity in tech and are the steps used to help improve the situation working? Plus YouTube announces new revenue options for creators and US Supreme Court rules that privacy in the digital age includes cellphone data held by 3rd parties.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Megan Rose Dickey, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.

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Daily Tech Headlines – June 22, 2018

Daily Tech News Show / June 22nd, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500YouTube offers new monetization options, Uber driver watching Hulu during fatal-autonomous car accident, Microsoft launches visual search.

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