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Oldest case of spam email | Techday, May 3rd The earliest case of spam email, that we know of, was sent on this TECHDAY in history, May 3rd 1978. Unsolicited bulk email, which is another term for spam, is a massive problem nowadays affecting companies and individuals. Gary Thuerk, who worked at Digital Equipment ...
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BlackBerry Bold 9000 | TechMuseum Year of release: 2008 Technical specifications: Network: GSM Dimensions: 114 x 66 x 14 mm Weight: 133 g Antenna : No Display : Color Sound : Polyphonic Bluetooth: Yes WiFi: Yes OS: BlackBerry OS The BlackBerry Bold 9000 features a GSM Network ...
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Microsoft registered domain name | Techday, May 2nd Microsoft, a huge technology company that develops and distributes hardware products and computer software, such as the Windows operating system, registered the domain name microsoft.com on this TECHDAY in history, on May 2nd 1991. In the 1980s, the internet was ...
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Apple Macintosh SE | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1987-1990 Technical Specifications: Processor: Motorola 68000, 7.8 MHz RAM: 1 to 4 MB FDD: One or two Floppy disk (800 KB) HDD: 20 or 40 MB Audio: Speaker Connectors/Ports: Modem, speaker, parallel, two Apple Desktop Bus , two serial, ...
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Founding of the AMD | AMD enters the PC processor "game" | Techday, May 1st On this TECHDAY in history, on May 1st 1969, a group of eight former Fairchild Semiconductor executives founded AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), an integrated circuit manufacturer. A company that would early on enter into competition with ...
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IBM Simon | TechMuseum Year of release: 1994 Technical specifications : Network: GSM Dimensions: 220 x 64 x 38 mm Weight: 510 g Antenna : Yes Display : Monochrome Sound : Monophonic Bluetooth: - WiFi: - OS: Datalight ROM DOS The IBM Simon featured an antenna, but no Wifi or ...
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World Wide Web available to all | Techday, April 30th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 30th 1993, following the suggestions of Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the WWW protocol, the directors of CERN released information on how to access World Wide Web as a public domain, free from fees. The decision to make ...
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Commodore Amiga 4000T | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1994 Technical Specifications: Processor: Motorola 68040, 25 MHz RAM: 2 MB FDD: Floppy disk 3.5", 1.76 MB HDD: 3.5" hard disk Audio: Four channels, stereo Connectors/Ports: Keyboard, serial, two mouse, analog video output, two audio ...
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Launch of eMac | Education version of Macintosh | Techday, April 29th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 29th 2002, Apple released a special version of the Macintosh aimed at educational institutions. The Apple eMac, later released on the market, was the cheaper, with lower specifications, version of the iMac. ...
