x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History

The Day in Technology History is a podcast detailing what happened in Tech. This is a daily podcast, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We look at stories of the Information Age, dates of artifacts, creation of Silicon Valley and the history of companies like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Commodore, Facebook, Twitter and more. It’s a Computer museum in a podcast.

news tech news

All Episodes

4:40

March 26, 1976: Altair Computer Convention

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/26

1976 – The First Annual World Altair Computer Convention is held at the Airport Marina Hotel near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bill Gates opens the convention with his position on software piracy. Of course, it was all about the Altair 8800. MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) was a computer that came in kit form where you could […]

en-US

5:17

March 25, 1994: Microsoft Excel 4.0

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/25

1994 – Microsoft released Excel 4.0. It included an Easter egg animation of the Excel logo crushing the numbers 1-2-3. Other Day in Tech History items: AOL and eBay cross marketing agreement Excel 4.0 is released The first Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference

en-US

6:35

March 22, 1981: RCA Selectavision Videodisc

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/22

1981 – The first vinyl video record, a.k.a. the videodisc, hit stores in the U.S. The “Capacitance Electronic Disc” looked just like any other vinyl record protected in a plastic caddy and held 60 minutes of NTSC video. That is approximately 27,000 frames per second. However, the CED players did not make the impact RCA had […]

en-US

5:44

March 21, 2006: The First Tweet and Twitter is Founded

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/21

2006 – Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass launch Twitter (a.k.a. Twttr) with Jack’s first Tweet. “Just setting up my Twttr” went across the network of only a few followers. Similar to Alexander Graham Bell’s “Mr. Watson, come here” statement or “Mary Had a Little Lamb” into a wax cylinder. Twitter was officially founded, […]

en-US

5:58

March 20, 1916: The Foundation of the General Theory...

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/20

1916 – Albert Einstein sent a paper off to Annelen Der Physik. The paper was called “Die Grundlage der Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie” – translated as “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity”. The paper included the Principle considerations about the Postulate of Relativity, Mathmatical auxiliiaries for establishing the general covariant equations, theory of gravitational fields, and […]

en-US

7:11

March 19, 1997: First Consumer DVD Player Released in...

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/19

1997 – Toshiba – a member of the DVD consortium – put out the first consumer DVD player on November 1, 1996 in Japan as the SD-3000. After some initial changes (and having to change the DVD region code for U.S. based DVD players), Toshiba debuted two U.S. models – the SD-2006 and the SD-3006. The […]

en-US

5:31

March 18, 2008: LimeWire Tries to go Legal

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/18

2008 – The free peer-to-peer file sharing program who was under major fire decided to set up a fully legal DRM music store. With over 500,000 MP3’s from artists who are not on any major labels, the store allowed you to get lossless versions of this music. They planned a party at SXSW 2008 . Downloads […]

en-US

5:23

March 16, 1926: First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launched

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/16

1926 – Robert Goddard became the first man to launch liquid-fueled rocket. The liquid oxygen and gasoline mixture launched the 10 foot rocket, travelling at 60 MPH, to an altitude of 41 feet. The rocket was dubbed “Nell” and was launched in the cold climate in Auburn Massachusetts. The New York Times picked up on Goddard’s experiment, […]

en-US

5:56

March 15, 1989: Amiga Plus Magazine

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/15

1989 – Antic Software publishes the first issue of Amiga Plus Magazine. It was the April/May edition and included an AMIGA Plus disk, which included the graphic programs created. Articles included everything from creating graphics, to your 1988 Federal Income Tax, Lattice C++ review to a Tetris review and more. Nat Friedland was the Editor and […]

en-US

8:16

March 9, 2008: The Zuckerberg, Lacy Incident

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/09

2008 – SXSW Interactive keynote, Mark Zuckerberg was being interviewed by journalist Sarah Lacy. There was a lot of anticipation for the event, but things went south quickly (no pun intended). During the interview, Lacy starts talking about these books Zuckerberg writes into but never formally asked him about it. She gets a little befuddled because […]

en-US

8:19

March 2, 1995: Delphi Released

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/02

1995 – Programming language Delphi was released by Borland. Delphi is an object oriented derivative of the Pascal programming language meant for Windos and Mac OS in 32-bit and 64-bit. It was the successor to Borland Pascal. Delphi is still in release – XE7. It has ported over to current desktop and mobile devices including Android […]

en-US

7:15

March 1, 1990: The Raid of Steve Jackson Games

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2025/03/01

1990 – The secret service and Austin TX police raided Steve Jackson Games, along with the home of Loyd Blankenship, writer of GURPS Cyberpunk. Four computers, two laser printers and all of the companies’ hardware was seized. This was a part of a nationwide data piracy investigation. It was a very sketchy reason for why the […]

en-US

5:19

December 1, 2013: The Amazon Flying Drone Project

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/12/01

2013 – Jeff Bezos is interviewed on the show “60 Minutes” on CBS with Charlie Rose. During his interview he unveils a project Amazon has been working on – Flying drone delivery. This secret R&D project called “Octocopter” will have drones fly the packages from outposts in each city to the homes. In a project Amazon […]

en-US

9:12

November 30, 1959: $2.9 Million IBM 7090 Mainframe

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/11/30

1959 – Want to see a 2.9 million dollar computer? That was the IBM 7090 – a transistorized mainframe computer that was designed for scientific research and tech applications. It replaced the 709 series, which used vacuum tubes. The first two were delivered – one of the 7090’s would be used for the Mercury and […]

en-US

6:10

November 29, 1972: First Pong Machine

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/11/29

1972 – Andy Cappa’s tavern in CA was the site for the first Pong game was wheeled into the establishment. The coin-operated game was put in by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell and game designer Al Alcorn. The duo decided that making their own game – rather than having 3rd parties do it – would help keep costs […]

en-US

5:35

November 28, 1983: Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/11/28

1983 – To counter IBM, Tandy releases the Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000 computer. It housed the 80186 processor and 128 KB of RAM. There were 2 – 720 KB floppy drives and the MS–DOS Operating System. The prices ranged from $2,750. For an additional fee you could get a Monochrome graphics card, optional color monitor and […]

en-US

4:58

November 27, 1998: Sega Dreamcast Launched in Japan

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/11/27

1998 – Sega releases their next generation console – the Dreamcast – in Japan. It didn’t get released in the US until Sept 9 1999, but it was one of the more successful console launches of it’s time.The Dreamcast had a 200 MHz processor with on-die 128-bit vector graphics engine. The graphics hardware is a PowerVR2 CLX2 chipset, […]

en-US

4:41

November 26, 2001 Intel at TeraHertz

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/11/26

2001 – One problem with technology is that you hit limitations, mostly due to materials used or how small machines can make parts like transistors. For instance, today’s multi-core x86 processors will eventually be replaced because we won’t be able to put anymore transistors on the die – It’s called “Moores Law“. Intel and AMD […]

en-US

5:53

November 25, 2002: Roxio Purchased Napster

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/11/25

2002 – While in Bankruptcy since the following September, Roxio – along with the Private Media Group – came in and took over the $2.43 million dollar company. They took all logos and names and rebranded it “Napster 2.0”. This time, Napster was a pay site – merging technologies with Roxio Pressplay.The sale completed in […]

en-US

6:22

November 23, 1889: First Commercial Jukebox

Day in Tech History Archives : Day in Tech History ·

2024/11/23

1889 – Congratulations to the first commercial jukebox which was installed in San Francisco, CA. It was called the “Nickel-in-the-Slot”, and played wax cylinder records. Within 6 months it would earn $1,000. The word “Juke” – by the way – means ‘disorderly house’ – therefore this is a disorderly box of music.Put another nickel in […]

en-US

147 results

Similar Podcasts

Expres Ráno

Expres FM

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

CD Voice

China Daily

Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

Noa Levi

Jeffrey Epstein: The Coverup Chronicles

Bobby Capucci