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• This week/day in tech history
  • March 14, 1955: AT&T Bell Labs announced the TRADIC (for TRAnsistor DIgital Computer or TRansistorized Airborne DIgital Computer) the first transistorized computer.
  • March 11, 1986: The 1st NFL replay system is introduced.
  • March 13, 1986: Microsoft goes public
  • March 12, 1989: The first architecture for the WWW is introduced by Tim Berners Lee.
  • March is Women’s history month!
    • Radia Perlman invented the algorithm behind STP (spanning tree protocol)
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  • Rise and fall of tech constructs - what really matters?
• This week/day in tech history
  • March 4, 1956 - An Wang Sells core memory patent to IBM
  • March 5, 1995 - Yahoo! officially launches
  • March 9 1999 - AL Gore invents the internet
  • March is Women’s history month!
    • Grace Hopper. Responsible for starting UNIVAC, COBOL. 1st bug
    • "Admiral Hopper believed that the major obstacle to computers in non-scientific and business applications was the dearth of programmers for these far from user-friendly new machines. The key to opening up new worlds to computing, she knew, was the development and refinement of programming languages - languages that could be understood and used by people who were neither mathematicians nor computer experts. It took several years for her to demonstrate that this idea was feasible."
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• This week/day in tech history
  • 3/1/1960: Lisp Programming Manual published
  • 2/26/1991: 1st web browser released. It was called WorldWideWeb, keeping the tradition of bad product names alive.
  • March is Women’s history month!
    • Ada Lovelace was there from the beginning, programming and documenting Charles Babbage’s analytical engine (first computer).
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• This week/day in tech history
  • 2/20/1962:  Glynn Orbits the earth 3 times, with the assistance of NASA’s IBM 7030 Stretch Supercomputer
  • 2/19/1971: FBI issues 1st computer search warrant.
  • 2/22/1999: The 1st Internet Bank of Indiana opened, 1st all online bank
  • Sources:
    • http://thisdayintechhistory.com/
    • http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/
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