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Today in Tech History – May 9


1893 – Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated the Kinetoscope for the first time at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.


1941 – The British Royal Naval ship HMS Bulldog captured a German U-110 submarine south of Iceland and recovered a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known as Enigma. The sub was sunk to hide its capture and the machine taken to Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and other cryptographers broke the naval code.


1967 – New Building for National Center for Atmospheric Research
             The National Center for Atmospheric Research – a pioneer in investigating weather patterns and other atmospheric phenomena using computers and other technology – dedicated its new building in Boulder, Colorado. The building stemmed from a $100,000 grant from the Mac C. Fleishmann Foundation and was designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei.


1989 – Apple previewed its new System 7 operating system at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. It was announced users would need at least a Mac Plus to run it as well as 2 megs of RAM.


1996 – Linux Gets Happy Feet
           Linus Torvalds decided to adopt Tux the penguin a mascot for the Linux operating system. Perhaps had he known the movie Happy Feet would be released a little over 10 years later, he would have chosen a warbler instead.


2006 – Nintendo announced that its next game console, previously referred to as the Nintendo Revolution, and woul1d be called the Nintendo Wii.


2012 – Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel wrote the first blog post about Snapchat which had launched in the iOS app store in September 2011 after changing it’s name from Picaboo.


2014 – Foursquare Froze Mayors
             Foursquare tried to re-organize and turn into a review-based app more than check-in app. They moved the check-in over to a new app called “Swarm”. Because of this, they froze all mayorship spots so people would start moving to the new Swarm app, then writing reviews on Foursquare.
Unfortunately, people didn’t “Swarm” to the new app.
Since then (two days ago), Foursquare announced they were bringing mayorships back to the native app.

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