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May 2012

May 19 Apple Cube Store Opens in NYC
May 19 Apple Debuts Retail Stores
May 19 Apple III Introduced
May 18 Antitrust Suit Filed Against Microsoft
May 17 World Wide Web Born
May 16 First Laser Created

February 2012

February 15 ENIAC Dedicated
February 14 Telephone Patented By Two Men

May 2011

April 2011

April 30 World Wide Web Made Public Domain
April 29 Sprechen Sie Sassy?
April 28 iTunes Music Store Launched; Record Execs Wet Themselves
April 27 Computer Mouse Introduced
April 26 Chernobyl Virus Melts Down PCs
April 25 Do You Yahoo?
April 25 Hubble Deployed
April 24 A Crazy Day for Apple
April 24 The IBM PC Introduced
April 23 First YouTube Video
April 22 Mosaic 1.0
April 21 IBM Licenses PC Patents
April 20 Windows 98 is Plug and ... Whoa?
April 19 Moore's Law Published
April 18 Osborne Executive Introduced
April 17 Surveyor 3 Launched
April 16 Apple and Commodore
April 15 Marcel Brown Technology Services Born
April 15 PC Industry Born
April 15 GE Founded
April 14 Columbia Lands
April 14 The Titanic Could Have Been Worse
April 13 Metallica Loses Their Cool
April 13 Houston, We've Had a Problem
April 12 First Space Shuttle Launch
April 12 Who in the World is Ronald Wayne?
April 12 First Man in Space
April 11 Sculley Forces Out Jobs
April 10 ENIAC Project Started
April 9 The Mercury Seven
April 8 John Sculley Joins Apple
April 7 IBM System 360 Changes the Industry Forever
April 6 Windows 3.1 Released
April 5 Could it be ... SATAN?
April 4 Netscape Born
April 4 Microsoft Formed
April 3 First Spacecraft to Orbit Moon
April 2 Microsoft's First Hardware Product
April 1 Gmail Launched
April 1 A is for Apple
April 1 Internal Combustion Engine Patented

March 2011

March 31 Free ... Your ... Mind
March 31 Microsoft Bob is Spawned
March 31 First Electrically Lighted City
March 30 UNIVAC Unveiled
March 29 TRS-80 Model 100 Introduced
March 28 Kodak Releases DC40
March 27 20-Year Old Bill Gates Gives Address
March 26 Melissa Unleashes
March 25 Twister First Movie on DVD
March 24 Mac OS X is Born
March 23 Mir Falls From the Sky
March 22 Frickin' Laser Beams Patented
March 21 The World's First Tweet
March 20 Yahoo Acquires Flickr
March 19 IBM.com and sun.com Registered
March 18 Arcade Game of Many Firsts
March 17 Apple Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
March 16 The First Wiki
March 15 First Internet Domain Registered
March 14 Bell Labs Announces TRADIC
March 13 Microsoft Goes Public
March 12 Hulu is Unleashed
March 11 NFL Adopts Instant Replay … For The First Time
March 10 Mr. Bell Calls Mr. Watson
March 9 I Invented the Internet
March 8 IBM Introduces PC-XT
March 7 Bell Receives Patent for Telephone
March 6 Michelangelo Strikes
March 5 Yahoo! Officially Launches
March 4 First Cray Supercomputer Shipped
March 3 Michael Dell Steps Down as CEO
March 3 Homebrew Computer Club Holds First Meeting
March 3 Magnavox Licenses Home Video Games
March 2 Gates Admits Netscape Lockout
March 2 Pioneer 10 Launched
March 2 Concorde Makes Maiden Flight
March 1 Netscape Discontinued
March 1 On The First Day ...
March 1 First Spacecraft to Land On Another Planet

February 2011

February 28 Disney CEO Claims Apple Encourages Theft
February 28 First Color TVs Go on Sale
February 28 AT&T Incorporated
February 27 CompUSA Restructures
February 27 V.92 Introduced
February 27 Apple Discontinues the Newton
February 26 The First Web Browser Introduced
February 26 First Saturn 1B Rocket Launch
February 26 RADAR Demonstrated for First Time
February 25 Apple Sells 10 Billionth Song
February 25 First Check Photographing Device Patented
February 25 Electric Motor Patented
February 24 First Fly-By of Uranus
February 24 First Phone and TV Satellite Relays
February 24 First Rocket to "Officially" Reach Outer Space
February 23 First Mobile Phone Virus
February 23 Radio Gets Controlled
February 23 Holy Type!
February 22 First Internet Only Bank
February 22 Dolly Unveiled
February 22 First Presidential Radio Address
February 21 Edison Patents Light Switch, Sort Of
February 21 First Telephone Book Published
February 21 First Burglar Alarm Installed
February 20 Space Station Mir is Launched
February 20 John Glen Becomes First American to Orbit Earth
February 19 HD DVD Surrenders
February 19 In the Beginning Apple.com Was Created
February 19 First Warrant to Search Computer Data
February 18 First Flight of Space Shuttle - Just Not Into Space
February 18 First Cable TV Test
February 18 First Airmail Delivery
February 17 Windows 2000 Introduced
February 17 QuickTake 100 Launched
February 17 First Weather Satellite Launched
February 16 IBM Portable PC Introduced
February 16 The First BBS Goes Live
February 16 911 Begins Service
February 15 They Put the "You" in "Tube"
February 15 Windows Refund Day
February 15 Hacker Mitnick Arrested
February 14 First Modern GPS Satellite Launches
February 14 The First Electronic Computer Enveiled
February 14 The Birth of IBM
February 13 1234567890 Day!
February 13 Apollo Computer Incorporated
February 13 Motion Picture Projector Patented
February 12 She Was Also Famous for Tennis
February 12 Spacecraft Lands on an Asteroid
February 12 First Long Distance Telephone Call Made
February 11 Discovery Launches to Service Hubble
February 11 Titan-Centaur Fails First Test, Yet Mission Successful
February 11 Osumi!
February 10 Satellites Collide!
February 10 A Computer Defeats a World Chess Champion
February 10 Galileo Flies by Venus
February 9 Introduction of the Bandai Pippin
February 9 First Flight of Boeing 747
February 9 First Flight of Boeing 727
February 8 Google Maps is Unleashed
February 8 24 Hours in Cyberspace
February 8 A Patent is Filed for the Harvard Mark I
February 7 Kasparov Redeems Himself ... Sort Of
February 7 First Untethered Space Walk
February 7 DAF 600 Unveiled
February 6 V.90 Announced
February 6 The Woz Leaves Apple
February 6 First Golf Ball Hit on Moon
February 5 First Victoria's Secret Webcast
February 5 Apollo 14 Lands on Moon
February 5 First Automatic Don't Walk Sign
February 4 Facebook is Born
February 4 Apple Acquires NeXT; Steve Jobs Returns to Apple
February 4 The Sims Released
February 3 First Woman to Pilot the Space Shuttle
February 3 Genesis of "Vaporware"
February 3 First Soft Landing on Moon
February 2 Amelio Becomes Apple CEO
February 2 TRS-80 Born
February 2 First Polygraph Used
February 1 Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
February 1 286 Processor Introduced
February 1 First Working Prototype of Rotary Engine
February 1 First Movie Studio Completed

January 2011

January 31 SBC Buys AT&T; The Learner Becomes the Master
January 31 First Ape into Space
January 31 The First American Satellite Launches Into Orbit
January 30 Windows Vista Released; Users Exodus
January 30 First Super Bowl in HD
January 30 First Computer Virus Written
January 29 Phobos II Orbits Mars
January 29 Tetris Sneaks Into the US
January 29 Karl Benz Patents Gas Automobile
January 28 Yahoo! Buys GeoCities
January 28 Radio Shack Chooses Compaq
January 28 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
January 27 iPad Introduced
January 27 Jim Clark Leaves Silicon Graphics
January 27 Apollo 1 Tragedy
January 27 Edison Patents Incandescent Lamp
January 26 Compaq Purchases DEC
January 26 Lotus 1-2-3 Goes on Sale
January 26 Ranger 3 Launched
January 25 Opportunity Lands on Mars
January 25 First Transcontinental Jet Flight
January 25 First Transcontinental Phone Call
January 24 Voyager 2 Flies By Uranus
January 24 Macintosh Launched
January 24 Microwave Oven Patented
January 23 Last Contact with Pioneer 10
January 23 Java Released; Coffee Drinkers Confused
January 23 First Bridge Over the Mississippi River
January 22 1984 Commercial Introduces the Macintosh
January 22 First Lunar Module Test Launch
January 22 First TV Station West of Mississippi
January 21 Twitter.com is Born
January 21 It Could Go at Least 88 MPH
January 21 Concorde Begins Commercial Flights
January 20 The Happy99 Worm Appears
January 20 Don't Call a Lemming a Lemming
January 20 The Super Fight
January 19 BlackBerry Introduced
January 19 IBM Loses $5 Billion
January 19 Apple Lisa Introduced
January 19 Neon Lighting Tube Patented
January 18 The Superjumbo is Unveiled
January 18 Yahoo.com Registered
January 18 First Plane Landing on a Ship
January 17 Drudge Report Legitimizes Internet Reporting
January 17 Computer is Used in the Discovery of New Planets
January 17 Supreme Court Rules on Home VCR Recordings
January 16 Space Shuttle Columbia Launches for Final Time
January 16 IETF Meets For the First Time
January 16 Soyuz 4 & 5 Make History
January 15 Wikipedia Goes Online; Bookshelves Clear Up
January 15 NCSA Opens
January 15 The Birth of Video Games
January 14 Steve Jobs Goes on Hiatus
January 14 Probe Lands on Titan
January 14 First Car Built on Assembly Line
January 13 Bill Gates Steps Aside
January 13 Friday the 13th Virus Gets Brits
January 13 First Public Radio Performance
January 13 Adding Machine Patented
January 12 Apple Posts Major Loss
January 12 Boeing 747 Flies for First Time
January 12 911 is Born
January 11 Telstar 401 Satellite Fails Mysteriously
January 11 First Solo Flight From Hawaii to California
January 11 Three Spacecraft Dock Together For First Time
January 10 Moon Rocket Announced
January 10 First RADAR Contact With Moon
January 10 Maiden Flight of First Flying Boat
January 10 First Subway Opens in London
January 9 Apple - Not Just For Computers Anymore
January 9 Apple Introduces iPhone
January 9 Apple Introduces iTunes
January 8 Record Stay in Space Begins
January 8 AT&T Settles; Agrees to Breakup
January 8 Luna 21 Launches
January 8 Punched Card Calculator Patented
January 7 First Patent for Motion Picture Film
January 7 The Last Surveyor Launches
January 7 First Day of Transatlantic Phone Service
January 6 Mac OS X Introduced
January 6 First 1 MB Memory Chip
January 6 Morse Demonstrates Telegraph
January 5 Nexus is the One
January 5 Space Shuttle Given Green Light
January 5 Construction Begins on Golden Gate
January 4 4 Wheeled Skates Patented in US
January 4 Spirit Land on Mars
January 4 Luna 1 Reaches Moon
January 4 Sputnik 1 Falls
January 3 Mars Polar Lander Launched
January 3 Apple Computer Grows Up
January 3 First Electric Watch Introduced
January 2 Stardust Flies By Comet Wild 2
January 2 Luna 1 Launch
January 2 First Moon Photo
January 1 The Breakup of Ma Bell
January 1 The Beginning of Time?
January 1 Y2K Comes and Goes
January 1 The Dawn of the Internet
January 1 First Ball Drop in Times Square, NYC

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