Today in Tech History @techhistory.bsky.social

Daily tech history posts.

On this day in 2008, Mario Kart Wii was released in Japan 🇯🇵
0
1
13
On this day in 1959, NASA publicly announced the names of the first group of American astronauts. They were known as the Mercury Seven.
0
0
8
On this day in 2014, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP.
1
2
60
On this day in 1983, John Sculley became the 3rd CEO of Apple.
0
0
14
On this day in 1964, IBM announced the System/360 line of mainframe computers.
1
0
19
On this day in 1992, Microsoft released Windows 3.1.
1
0
35
On this day in 2009, the Nintendo DSi was released in North America.
0
2
39
On this day in 1975, Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2
0
41
On this day in 1973, the first cell phone call in public was made by Martin Cooper.
0
0
12
On this day in 1980, Microsoft announced their very first hardware product: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II.
0
1
26
50 years ago today, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded the Apple Computer Company.
1
1
35
On this day in 1998, Netscape released the source code for its Communicator suite on the newly-created Mozilla.org.
1
0
53
On this day in 1951, the first UNIVAC computer was delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau.
0
0
12
On this day in 2005, Puppy Linux 1.0 was released.
2
1
44
On this day in 1996, Wing Commander III for the PlayStation was released in North America.
0
0
5
On this day in 2011, the Nintendo 3DS was released in North America.
1
2
28
On this day in 2013, Terraria for the PlayStation 3 was released in North America.
0
0
12
On this day in 1995, WikiWikiWeb (the first Wiki) was launched.
0
0
14
On this day in 2001, the first major version of Mac OS X was released. It sold for $129.00.
0
1
18
On this day in 1993, Kirby's Adventure was released in Japan 🇯🇵
0
0
9
On this day in 1993, Intel introduced the first Pentium microprocessor.
1
0
23
On this day in 2001, the Game Boy Advance was released in Japan 🇯🇵
0
0
22
On this day in 2005, Yahoo! acquired Flickr for an estimated $22 million.
0
0
4
On this day in 2002, Pac-Man World 2 for the GameCube was released.
0
0
11
On this day in 2005, Mario Party 6 was released in Europe.
0
0
8
On this day in 1988, Apple filed their user interface lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement.
0
0
10
On this day in 2012, "The new iPad" was released.
0
0
12
On this day in 1985, the very first .COM domain, symbolics.com, was registered.
0
0
11
On this day in 2002, the original Xbox was released in Europe and Australia.
1
0
19
On this day in 1986, Microsoft went public. The company sold 2.5 million shares by the end of the day.
0
0
18
Load more