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Daily Tech History: October 28, 1955 — Bill Gates Is Born
On October 28, 1955, Bill Gates was born in Seattle — the future Microsoft co-founder who, with Ted Hoff (born the same day), helped…
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Daily Tech History: October 27, 1980 — ARPANET Suffers Its First Network-Wide Crash
On October 27, 1980, a cascading hardware glitch and software flaw took down the entire ARPANET for about four hours in the first major…
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Daily Tech History: October 26, 2015 — Microsoft’s Surface Book, Its First-Ever Laptop, Goes on Sale
On October 26, 2015, Microsoft’s Surface Book — its first-ever laptop, with a detachable touchscreen and hidden graphics chip — went on sale alongside…
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Daily Tech History: October 25, 2001 — Windows XP Launches to the Public
On October 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP, unifying its consumer and business Windows lines into an OS so stable it outlived its own…
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Daily Tech History: October 24, 2003 — Concorde Makes Its Final Flight
On October 24, 2003, British Airways flew Concorde’s last commercial flight, ending 27 years of supersonic passenger service.
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Daily Tech History: October 23, 2001 — Apple Unveils the Original iPod
On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod, a 5 GB FireWire music player that promised “1,000 songs in your pocket.”
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Daily Tech History: October 22, 1938 — Chester Carlson Makes the First Xerographic Copy
On October 22, 1938, Chester Carlson and Otto Kornei produced the first xerographic copy in a rented Astoria, Queens room, planting the seed that…
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Daily Tech History: October 21, 1949 — An Wang Patents Magnetic-Core Memory
On October 21, 1949, An Wang filed his patent for magnetic-core memory, the ferrite-ring storage technology that became the dominant form of computer memory…
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Daily Tech History: October 20, 1966 — Slackware Linux Creator Patrick Volkerding Is Born
Patrick Volkerding, born October 20, 1966, created Slackware in 1993, now recognized as the oldest actively maintained Linux distribution.
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Daily Tech History: October 19, 1973 — Court Strips ENIAC’s Patent, Credits Atanasoff
On October 19, 1973, a federal judge invalidated the ENIAC patent, ruling that John Vincent Atanasoff, not Mauchly and Eckert, was the true inventor…