1975 Sony releases the first home videocassette recorder inthe US. Japan first saw the Betamax on May 10, 1975, which was not uncommon. The magnetic tape media was the first to be on the market, as

2005 Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then showed off the Mac OS X running on aPentium 4 CPU. The reas

1983 Coleco announced at the Consumer Electronics Show the Coleco Adam. It was their first attempt at a computer hybrid system gaming and desktop computing. The $725 price tag didnt hurt, either.

1896 Henry Ford gets ready to test drive the first Quadricycle (a.k.a. Car). Only one problem They didnt make the garage door big enough. Out comes the Ax A couple chops and a wider door was cr

2009 Intel introduces the Nehalem Core i7 processor, code-named Lynnfield. The i7-950 and 975 models are 4-core processors with a speed of 3.06 GHz. The processor ran 64-bit instruction set and co

1988 While not the first version of the PS/2, the Model 70 was introduced with the 80386 processor. 16, 20, and 25 MHz clock speeds. The Model 70 also used a 25 MHz Intel 486 processor in a complex

1979 Intel released the successorto the 8086 processor in the Intel 8088 chip. With a clock rate of either 4.77 MHz or 8 MHz, this 16-bit chip had an external bus of 8 bits and 29,000 transistors.

2006 Swedish police raid the host of the Pirate Bay BitTorrent. On the same day, the Pirate Bay political party increased their numbers by 500, with an additional 930 joining the following day. The

1987 North American Phillips Company introduced the compact disc video format. Using the same technology as LaserVision, the CDs with Pictures would be gold in color and the same size as an audio

1999 Believeinkids.com became the five-millionth domain name in the world. At the time, a domain name cost $70 for the first year, $35 a year thereafter. The domain name was abandoned and is still a