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December 11, 1967: The Concorde Supersonic Airliner
1967 The Concorde was a British and French venture. It wa the first supersonic airliner. The prototype (Concorde 001) was rolled out to 1100 present. British technology minister Anthony Wedgwood Ben
December 10, 1993: DOOM Released Unofficially
1993 20 years ago, a Shareware copy was uploaded through a server at the University of Wisconsin (and although I was going to school there at the time, it wasnt me HONEST). The end result was the
December 9, 2002: Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) Trial
2002 The trial of Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon, begins with Johansen pleading not guilty. DVD Jon has been a pioneer in Reverse engineering. O.K, so that is a fancy way of saying
December 8, 2004: IBM sells PC Division to Lenovo
2004 It was an interesting day in the Tech community when we heard the news. IBM was getting out of the desktop and laptop markets and focus on server and infrastructure. They started by selling all
December 7, 1978: Microsoft Staff Picture
1978 It is one of the most infamous pictures in tech today. This is the Microsoft crew. Can you guess which one is Bill Gates? The picture was updated in 2008 when the group (except Bob Wallace, who
December 6th, 1768: Encyclopedia Britannica Published
1768 Encyclopedia Britannica began publishing the first print otherwise known as part I. It was the brain child of Colin Macfarquhar, andAndrew Bell, and was a conservative reaction to the Fre
December 5, 1965: First Computer Science Degree: Richard Wexelblat
1965 Richard Wexelblat was the first candidate to complete his doctoral dissertation, hence giving him a degree in Computer Science. It was presented at the University of Pennsylvania Moore Scho
December 4, 1985: Cray X-MP/48 Supercomputer
1985 The Cray X-mp/48 Supercomputer begins operation in San Diego Supercomputer Center in California. The $15 million dollar supercomputer could process 400 megaflops (200 per processor). It was a s
December 3, 1981: Disbanding of IBM Data Processing Division
1981 For many years, whenever something came out, it was IBMs Data Processing Division releases Well, on Dec 3rd 1981, IBM decided and announced that the Data Processing Division was going to be
December 2, 1991: Apple Quicktime
1991 What was first a Multimedia add-on for System 6, Quicktime has spent 21 years being Apples proprietary player. The original version contained graphics, animation and Video codecs What was re