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Daily Tech History: September 11, 1940 — First Public Demonstration of Remote Computing
On September 11, 1940, Bell Labs researcher George Stibitz demonstrated the first public remote computation, dialing into a calculator in New York from a…
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Daily Tech History: September 10, 2008 — The Large Hadron Collider’s First Beam
On September 10, 2008, CERN successfully sent the first proton beam all the way around the Large Hadron Collider, kicking off the modern era…
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Daily Tech History: September 9, 1999 — Sega Launches the Dreamcast in North America
On September 9, 1999, Sega’s Dreamcast launched in North America and broke the industry’s first-day sales record.
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Daily Tech History: September 9, 1947 — The First Computer “Bug” Is Found
On September 9, 1947, a moth found jammed in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer gave rise to the term “debugging.”
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Daily Tech History: September 8, 2003 — The RIAA Starts Suing Its Own Customers
On September 8, 2003, the RIAA filed 261 lawsuits against individual music fans for file sharing, kicking off a controversial legal campaign against its…
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Daily Tech History: September 7, 1927 — Farnsworth Transmits the First All-Electronic TV Image
On September 7, 1927, Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first all-electronic television image, proving out the technology that would power TV for decades.
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Daily Tech History: September 6, 2012 — Facebook Officially Closes the Instagram Deal
On September 6, 2012, Facebook officially closed its roughly $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, a deal that reshaped social media and mobile photography.
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Daily Tech History: September 5, 1977 — Voyager 1 Launches on Its Grand Tour
On September 5, 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1, the probe that would go on to become the most distant human-made object and the first…
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Daily Tech History: September 4, 1998 — Google Is Officially Incorporated
On September 4, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin officially incorporated Google, turning a Stanford research project into the company that would reshape how…