1884 – A group of people interested in the new field of electricity met in New York to start the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
1939 – Franklin Doolittle put experimental station W1XPW on the air, making it the first commercial FM radio station in the United States. The station later became WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
1958 – The trademark “Velcro” was registered, protecting the name of the multi-purpose material that manages cables everywhere.
1976 – Atari released the video game “Breakout,” making the paddle controller useful for something besides “Pong”.
1980 – Into the Ether(net)
Digital Equipment, Intel, and Xerox jointly announce the Ethernet network specification. Ethernet is the predominant networking standard of today’s business and home networks.
1985 – Money For Nothing?
The British rock band Dire Straits releases their fifth album, Brothers in Arms, which will become the first CD to sell over a million copies. It was the most successful album release on compact disc for over two decades. I guess “Money for Nothing” was more than a song title.
1986 – Network General Corporation Founded
Len Shustek and Harry Saal found Network General Corp., which was a major provider of management solutions for computer networks until its merger with McAfee Associates. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company’s first product was ‘The Sniffer,” a diagnostic tool for analyzing communications protocol problems in Local Area Networks.
1987 – Turbo C Released
Version 1.0 of the Turbo C programming language is released. It offers the first integrated edit- compile-run development environment for the C programming language for IBM-compatible personal computers. Turbo C was developed by Bob Jervis as “Wizard C”. It runs on just 384KB of memory and is capable of inline assembly with full access to C symbolic names and structures.
Intel and Xerox jointly announce the Ethernet network specification.
HP acquires EDS Iranian police close down more than four hundred Internet cafes.
1991 – System 7 Released
The System 7 operating system for the Macintosh is released, the second major upgrade to the Mac OS. One of the major features included in System 7 is built-in cooperative multitasking. System 7 also introduces the concept of “aliases”, which will later be copied as “shortcuts” in Microsoft Windows 95. System 7 was the first Mac OS that I personally became familiar with, and it was the foundation of the Mac OS until the release of Mac OS X almost exactly 10 years later.
Digital Equipment, Intel, and Xerox jointly announce the Ethernet network specification. Ethernet is the predominant networking standard of today’s business and home networks.
The British rock band Dire Straits releases their fifth album, Brothers in Arms, which will become the first CD to sell over a million copies. It was the most successful album release on compact disc for over two decades. I guess “Money for Nothing” was more than a song title.
Len Shustek and Harry Saal found Network General Corp., which was a major provider of management solutions for computer networks until its merger with McAfee Associates. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company’s first product was ‘The Sniffer,” a diagnostic tool for analyzing communications protocol problems in Local Area Networks.
Version 1.0 of the Turbo C programming language is released. It offers the first integrated edit- compile-run development environment for the C programming language for IBM-compatible personal computers. Turbo C was developed by Bob Jervis as “Wizard C”. It runs on just 384KB of memory and is capable of inline assembly with full access to C symbolic names and structures.
Intel and Xerox jointly announce the Ethernet network specification.
HP acquires EDS Iranian police close down more than four hundred Internet cafes.
The System 7 operating system for the Macintosh is released, the second major upgrade to the Mac OS. One of the major features included in System 7 is built-in cooperative multitasking. System 7 also introduces the concept of “aliases”, which will later be copied as “shortcuts” in Microsoft Windows 95. System 7 was the first Mac OS that I personally became familiar with, and it was the foundation of the Mac OS until the release of Mac OS X almost exactly 10 years later.
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