Well, who expects, that FB$ will follow Googles G+ example to shut down?
#Security #GooglePlus #Shutdown #SecurityBreach #Privacy

On Dec, 8th 1975, the Californian entrepreneur Paul Terrell opened the first store named Byte Store, not knowing that he would write computing history once. Therrell's goal was to compete Radio Shack and he started to distribute the MIPS Altair 8800 - the most popular personal computer before Radio Shack launched their TRS line. However, Terell's decision to stock other products in addition to the Altair resulted in MITS (the company behind the computer) pulling Terrell’s dealership status for the machines. The rest is history: Terrell met Jobs, who presented him a srange computer kit named Apple I ... just a bord with component. Terrell added keyboard, CRT and tape unit to sell it to end users. Months later, the package was wrapped into an fancy case and the Apple II was born.

#Computing #History #Computinghistory #ByteShop #PaulTerrell #PersonalComputer #Apple1 #Apple2

35 years ago, on Sept 27, 1983, the American software programmer Richard Stallman at the MIT AI Lab wrote a simple mail which made history. The point was not the call to write a new OS. It was the suggested way to perform this:

Individual programmers can contribute by writing a compatible duplicate of some Unix utility and giving it to me. For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the independently-written parts would not work together. But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this problem is absent. Most interface specifications are fixed by Unix compatibility. If each contribution works with the rest of Unix, it will probably work with the rest of GNU.

It was the birth of the Free Sofware idea and later efforts like the Linux OS and Apache Software Foundation would not be possible without Stallman's vision ...

#FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware #Linux '#ApacheSoftwareFoundation #Stallman #RichardStallman #GNUProject #Software #Programming

Well, today countless messages travel the world, just for a blink of an eye. But how long did it take a hundred years ago?

#communication #history #timessquare #times #telegraph #messages #aroundtheworld

“But there’s a big difference between “impossible” and “hard to imagine.” The first is about it; the second is about you!”
― Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer and author of The Society of Mind was born 91 years ago in New York, USA

#AI #history #marvinminsky #mind #computing

"If you're competing against people who started in a garage, you have to start in a garage."
-- Don Estridge, project manager of the so called IBM Project Chess team.

On August 8th 1980, the team shows a prototype microcomputer to their corporate management. Management gives approval for the team to build an operational computer within a one year deadline to compete in the rapidly emerging personal computer market. Funny to note, that the whole project based on two legs definitely not based on the IBM ground: Atari and Microsoft.

#Computing #History #ComputingHistory #IBM #Microsoft #Atari #8085 #Microcomputer #PC #IBMPC #todaysmemory

August 6th, 1997: At the Macworld Expo in Boston, Steve Jobs announces that Apple and Microsoft have signed a five-year alliance. Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple stock and commited to provide MS-Office for another five years on the Mac. On the other hand, Apple promised to make Internet Explorer the default web browser on the Mac and Apple and Microsoft would collaborate on Java compatibility.

#computing #history #computinghistory #trillion #billion #shares #microsoft #apple #alliance

1977 was the year of the Home & Small Office computers. While the Apple ][ and the Commodore PET where just announced, the TRS-80 Model I was already on sale at thousands of Radio Shack stores for moderate $599. Following many principles of the Altair 8800, the TRS-80 was quickly accepted by the customers as the first "Home Computer" and the well established distribution channels where a big advantaged compared to the efforts of Apple and Commodore.

#computing #history #computinghistory #trs80 #z80 #homecomputer

37 years ago, on July 9th 1981, a Japanese playing card and game manufacturer named Nintendo published their first computer game named Donkey Kong and the Jumpman. Later, the Jumpman figure was renamed to Mario and became one of the most successful computer game figures at all.

#computing #history #computinghistory #gaming #games #nintendo #supermario #dokeykong

Well, today most of us are used to operate computers by tapsing and wiping. But about 60 years ago, using a keyboard was really a revolutionary input device ...
#todaysmemory #computing #computinghistory #history #technology #keyboard #whirlwind #MIT