1938 – First Use of Tape
Recorder in Radio
Radio
station WQXR in New York City broadcasts a program using a tape recorder for
the first time. The tape recorder used was the Phillips-Miller recording
system, also known as Millertape
invented by James Arthur Miller.
1984 – Miss Manners Addresses
Computer Correspondence
Miss
Manners confronts a new realm of etiquette in her August 26 column as she
responded to a reader’s concern about typing personal correspondence on a personal
computer. The concerned individual said that using the computer was more
convenient but that they were worried about the poor quality of her dot-matrix
printer and about copying parts of one letter into another.
Miss Manners replied that computers, like typewriters,
generally are inappropriate for personal correspondence. In the event a word
processor is used, she warned, the recipient may confuse the letter for a
sweepstakes entry. And, she noted, if any one of your friends ever sees that
your letter to another contains identical ingredients, you have will no further
correspondence problem.
1996 – Netscape Communication Corp. announced it had
partnered with several other big companies to create a software company called
Navio corp. Navio was meant to create an operating system to compete with
windows.
2008 – RIAA says Don’t Destroy
Data!
Judge Neil
Wake ruled: The Defendant – Jeffery Howell had willfully and intentionally
destroyed evidence related to his peer-to-peer activities after being notified
of pending legal action by the RIAA. Furthermore, since it was done in bad
faith, it “therefore warrants appropriate sanctions. The RIAA went after Pamela
and Jeffrey Howell for copyright infringement 2006. They claimed Kazaa was used
to make copyright files available for download. Jeffrey then tried to cover his
tracks by erasing the hard drive. Not a good practice there.
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