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Today in Tech History – May 27



1931Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took the first manned trip into the stratosphere when they rode in a pressurized cabin attached to a balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet.


1959NIT Shuts Down “Whirlwind” Computer
              After almost a decade of service, MIT shut down its Whirlwind computer. The machine debuted on Edward R. Murrow’s See It Now television series in 1951, showing off its quick speed and large memory compared to other systems at the time. Project director Jay Forrester described the computer as a “reliable operating system,” running 35 hours a week at 90-percent utility using an electrostatic tube memory.

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1986 – Dragon Quest was released in Japan. It combined the full-screen map of Ultima with the battle and statics-oriented screens of Wizardry and paved the way for RPG games.

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1988Windows Hits Version 2.1
               Microsoft release a 2 versions of Windows 2.1 – one for 286 computers and one for 386 computers. It wasn’t until version 3 that Windows had any sort of appreciable user base.

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2003WordPress Released
              Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little created a Fork of B2/cafelog. From there, WordPress was born. Since its release, WordPress has taken over Content Management Systems (CMS) with its ease of use and plethora of programmers that have made plugins, themes and other tweaks to the system since. The current version is 3.5.1 which has been downloaded over 18 million times.

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