1963 – The first demonstration of a home video recorder was made at the BBC News Studios in London. A Telcan, short for television in a can, could record up to 20 minutes of black and white television using quarter-inch tape on a reel to reel system.
1993 – “Severe Tire Damage”, conducted the first known Internet concert. The band set their gear up on the patios of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and sent their show out on the Internet Multicast Backbone, or Mbone.
1994 – Geffen Records released the first major label song for digital download. Aerosmith’s “Head First” was available on CompuServe as a .WAV file. It took more than an hour to download.
1996 – HP Announces New ATM Capabilities
Hewlett-Packard Co. announces new advanced ATM test capabilities, which it showcased at the Supercomm ’96 convention in Dallas from June 25 to 27. The new asynchronous transfer mode test options allowed users to test equipment according to their specific “class of service.”
2000 – President Clinton gave his weekly radio address live on the Internet for the first time.
2008 – Nokia Acquires Symbian Makes it Open Source
Nokia announced they have purchased Symbian outright. They originally owned 46% of the company, and bought out the remaining 54% for $410 million. But then the company turned around and created the Symbian Foundation – a group that would house and give away the software code.
The group and software would remain functioning until 2010. Symbian Foundation then closed, citing that it would change to a legal entity, responsible for licencing software and intellectual property. The transaction completed in 2011.
2010 – iPhone 4 Goes on Sale
After a wild lead-up involving a prototype being lost at a bar, Apple’s iPhone 4 officially went on sale. Later the iPhone 4 would then become the subject of the Antennagate controversy. With so much attention given to the phone, it was no wonder it went on to set sales records.
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