1888 – John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh, Scotland. He would grow up to invent the first working television system in the world.
1912 – The US Department of Commerce issued its first experimental radio license in compliance with the International Radio Convention and Radio Act of 1912. St. Joseph’s College received a license with serial number to operate kilowatt station 3XJ.
1973 – ICCP Is Founded
The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals was founded. The bearer of the standards for the computer industry, ICCP promoted high professional standards for the computer industry and offered a certification program in which engineers earned the designations of Certified Computing Professional or Associated Computing Professional.
1993 – Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting for SNES
Capcom releases Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting for the Super NES in the US. The street Fighter II arcade game started the fighting game boom of the 1990’s, which spawned off other many other fighting game franchises such as Mortal Kombat and Virtua Fighter. The Super NES version brought Street Fighter II into the home and … um … college dorms where certain people spent many hours smacking down their dorm mates.
I still have this game so if anyone is feeling saucy, the smack downs can resume at any time.
2004 – Adam Curry launched an RSS feed of audio recordings called “Daily Source Code” and podcasting became a thing.
2008 – Datallegro, XPrime and Microsoft
Datallegro – a warehouse application – had been sued by XPrime, where Cary Jardin (CEO of Datallegro) used to work. Datallegro was in mid acquisition by Microsoft at the time. The acquisition completed on Sept 16, 2008. The suit was analyzed by critics as “not relevant”. No word on how that suit ended.
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