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TECHDAY 18 April A megabit chip
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A megabit chip| IBM Model 3090 | Techday, April 18th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 18th 1986, IBM became the first to use a megabit chip, a memory chip that could store 1 million bits of information, in their Model 3090. This was a big step forward for the computer industry. The announcement was an obvious ...
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TECHDAY 17 April Harvard’s new Mark I computer
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Harvard's new Mark I computer | Techday, April 17th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 17th 1944, Harvard University President James Conant sent a letter to IBM founder Thomas Watson to inform him that the Mark I computer they jointly designed had been put into operation. This was one of many examples of the US ...
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TECHDAY 16 April 1971 Introduction of “File Transfer Protocol”
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Introduction of the File Transfer Protocol | Techday, April 16th On this TECHDAY in history, April 16th 1971, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was introduced to the network. several years before the description of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) that would lead to the creation of the ...
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TECHDAY 15 April The beginning of General Electric
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The beginning of a mega-company | The merge of General Electric | Techday, April 15th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 15th 1982, the General Electric Company (GE) was made, when Edison General Electric (started by Thomas Edison in 1890) and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company merged. When the Dow Jones ...
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TECHDAY 14 April 1932 Humans split the Atom
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Humans split the Atom | Techday, April 14th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 14th 1932, humans managed to split the atom for the first time with a proton beam “shot” on a lithium target. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, both physicists, had developed the first nuclear particle accelerator. They ...
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TECHDAY 13 April The inventor of RADAR
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Birthday of Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt | The inventor of RADAR is born | Techday, April 13th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 13th 1892, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was born. He was a Scottish physicist credited with the development of radar location of aircraft, in England. As a mathematician, who ...
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TECHDAY 12 April Humans in outer space
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Humans in outer space | First manned spaceflight | Techday, April 12th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 12th 1961, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Yuri Gagarin, at the age of 27, became the first human to orbit the Earth aboard that Soviet spacecraft. He remained ...
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TECHDAY 11 April Germany’s first computer
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Germany's first computer | Z1 Introduced | Techday, April 11th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 11th 1936, the German civil engineer and early computer pioneer Konrad Zuse filed for a patent on the automatic execution of calculations, which would later become a central part of the Z1, Germany’s first computer ...
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TECHDAY 10 April Facebook testifies about scandal
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Facebook testifies about scandal | Techday, April 10th On this TECHDAY, on April 10th 2018, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, testified in front of Congress to discuss their recently scandalous data breach. In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was recorded without their ...
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