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Monday Night Discord Patreon Training (June 27, 2022)

Monday Night Discord Patreon Training

How to protect yourself from Scammers.

Quote of the day.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

-Margaret Mead

This Day in Tech History.

The Phone That Changed Everything

June 29, 2007

Nearly 6 months after it was introduced, Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone goes on sale. Generally downplayed by Old Word Technology pundits after its introduction, the iPhone was greeted by long lines of buyers around the country on that first day. Quickly becoming an overnight phenomenon, one million iPhones were sold in only 74 days. Since those early days, ...

This Day in Tech History.

First Commercial Communications Satellite Activates

June 28, 1965

Intelsat I, the first commercial communications satellite, is activated for service. It was nicknamed “Early Bird” after the famous proverb, and became famous for carrying the first commercial telephone call between America and Europe, as well as helping provide TV coverage of the Gemini 6 splashdown (2022-06-28 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Quote of the day.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

-Confucius

Quote of the day.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. 

-Rebecca West

This Day in Tech History.

All Hail Atari

June 27, 1972

The iconic video game company, Atari, is founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Their first video game, Pong, was the first commercially successful video game and led to the start of the video game industry. In 1977, Atari’s Video Computer System (known as the VCS and later the Atari 2600) popularized the home video game market. Before the video game crash of 1983, Atari was the fastest ...

This Day in Tech History.

iPhone 4 Goes on Sale

June 24, 2010

After a wild lead-up involving a prototype being lost at a bar, Apple’s iPhone 4 officially went on sale. Later the iPhone 4 would then become the subject of the Antenna gate controversy. With so much attention given to the phone, it was no wonder it went on to set sales records (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/...

Quote of the Day.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

-Thomas A. Edison

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Fun with my drone in the home of the office.

Quote of the Day.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

-John Dewey

This Day in Tech History.

QWERTY Typewriter Patented

June 23, 1868

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first practical and commercially successful typewriter, is patented. Perhaps most notable in the design of the Sholes and Glidden (which would later become the Remington No. 1 typewriter) is the use of the QWERTY keyboard, which is still the most popular keyboard layout in the world (2022-06-23 14:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Quote of the day.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

-Frederick Douglass

This Day in Tech History.

SpaceShipOne – First Private Space Flight

June 21, 2004

Financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, SpaceShipOne becomes the first spacecraft developed by the free market to enter spaceflight. Launched from a mothership named White Knight, SpaceShipOne flew just beyond the atmosphere into the threshold of space then glided back to Earth. SpaceShipOne would later win the $10 million Ansari X Prize for th...

Quote of the day.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

-William Shakespeare

This Day in Tech History.

SEAC Machine Dedicated

June 20, 1950

The National Bureau of Standards dedicated the SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) in Washington. The SEAC was the first computer to use all-diode logic, a technology more reliable than vacuum tubes, and was the first stored-program computer completed in the United States. Magnetic tape in the external storage units stored programming information, coded subroutines, numerical ...

Quote of the day.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

-Joseph Addison

This Day in Tech History.

DES Cracked

June 17, 1997

A group of users organized over the Internet cracked the Data Encryption Standard — the strongest legally exportable encryption software in the United States — after five months of work. The United States bans stronger encryption software out of fear that it would be used by terrorists, but companies designing the software say such restrictions are worthless because foreign countries offer m...

Monday Night Discord Patreon Training (June 13, 2022)

Monday Night Discord Patreon Training

What is "Doxing" ("Doxxing")?

Quote of the day.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

-Josh Billings

This Day in Tech History.

Charles Babbage Unveils Difference Engine

June 14, 1822

Charles Babbage unveils his design for a machine he called the Difference Engine, the first example of a mechanical computing machine. The British government funded the building of a Difference Engine, which Babbage never actually completed. However, Babbage’s design for the Difference Engine and his later Analytical Engine spurred future designs of working mechanical computers. In 1991 a working Difference Engine was constructed using Babbage’s plans,...

Quote of the day.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

-Dudley Field Malone

This Day in Tech History.

First Man-Made Object to Leave Solar System

June 13, 1983

The NASA space probe Pioneer 10 crosses the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the Solar System. It was launched on March 2, 1972 toward the red star Aldebaran, which forms the eye of the constellation Taurus. The last contact with Pioneer 10 was on January 23, 2003 (2022-06-13 13:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Quote of the day.

You can live in denial of your impending death or be wide awake to it. Death is not a tragedy — it is the natural fate of all living things.

-Martin Aylward, Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness

This Day in Tech History.

Life Finds a Way

June 9, 1993

The motion picture Jurassic Park premiers in Washington D.C. The highest grossing film in history at the time, the contributions of Jurassic Park to the field of special effects is perhaps as important as the original Star Wars movie 16 years prior. During the production of the movie, the decision was made to incorporate the use of computer generated imagery (CGI for short) in a large sc...

Quote of the Day.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

-Mother Teresa

This Day in Tech History.

One Processor to Rule Them All

June 8, 1978

Intel introduces the 16-bit 8086 processor with clock speeds of 10, 8, and 5 MHz. The 8086 would become the basis for the series of processors used in “IBM Compatible” PCs and the x86  family (later marketed under the name “Pentium”) would dominate the market in the PC era. Ironically, however, it was the modified 8-bit 8088 processor that was used in the original ...

Monday Night Discord Patreon Training (June 7, 2022)

Monday Night Discord Patreon Training

HOW TO: Remove Your Personal Info From the Internet

Step by Step Tutorial can be found by selecting the Security tag.

Quote of the day.

Lost time is never found again.

-Benjamin Franklin

This Day in Tech History.

The Breakup of Microsoft … That Never Happened

June 7, 2000

United States District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders the breakup of Microsoft into two companies: one that will develop operating systems and one that will develop other applications. Microsoft immediately announces that it will file an appeal of the judgment. What would have been a monumental event in the history of the technology industry never actual...