The music player Winamp was infinitely popular in the past. The player swallowed almost all the media you threw in it and could also be adapted with skins so the player matched the tough style you had around the 2000s. One person has engaged in a real cultural deed and has collected more than 65,000 […]
May 10, 1894 “Wireless” is born when Guglielmo Marconi sends a radio wave three-quarters of a mile. Three years later the Marconi Company will successfully communicate “ship to shore” over a distance of twelve miles. Marconi’s work leads to the commercialization and proliferation of most of the radio technologies we know today.
April 4, 1975. Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates, age 19, and Paul Allen, age 22, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company is founded to develop BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800. MITS is headquartered in Albuquerque so Gates and Allen move there from Boston to launch their company. Eventually they decide to move Microsoft to the […]
37 years ago. IBM introduces the IBM Personal Computer XT, which stands for eXtended Technology. For a price of $4,995(!) it features a Intel 8088 processor, a 10MB hard drive, eight expansion slots, serial port, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM, a keyboard, and one double-sided 360kB floppy drive.
