1984 Michael Dell launches his new business of IBM compatible PCs from his dorm in Austin, TX. The idea was to sell a philosophy over a product. The philosophy was to sell direct to customize to th

1999 Real Networks admits to collecting data without telling users with their software program RealJukebox player. When the issue was brought up by a competitor, Real apologized and issued a patch t

1931 E.I. DuPont announces to the world they have come up with a new substance that is a Synthetic rubber called DuPrene. Made from Acetylene, salt and rubber, this combination would eventually be r

Intel announced in 1995 the next generation processor the Pentium Pro. Unlike the Pentium, the Pentium Pro was a chip designed for 32-bitarchitecture, so Windows 95 and Windows NT could run true.

The paper was called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto. It was posted to a cryptography mailing list. This was a roadmap to the creation of the crypto-currency, whic

1938 Orson Welles shocks the nation with radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. A large number of listeners who tune into the program ten minutes late (because the singer on the

2013: If you grew up in the 80s, you knew what an IBM PC was. Even in the 90s and 00s, the PC was what you had in the corner of the house to do homework on, surf the internet, work out expenses and

1955 William Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates has a son. William Gates III was born in Seattle, WA. Bill Gates, of course, went on to start Microsoft. Bill was CEO of Microsoft until he retired in 2

1999 Dataquest, a company that monitors PC sales, has shown a trend that Dell had maintained a 5% lead over Apple for 2 consecutive quarters. Therefore, Dell had become #1 in computer sales for 1999

1998 A Georgia man became the first person that ran a computer controlled by thought. The subject (known as J.R.) was paralyzed due to stroke. Dr Roy Bakay and Dr. Phillip Kennedy implanted a glass