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Business.com is Big Business

November 1, 1999

The domain name business.com sells for $7.5 million. At the time, it was the most expensive domain name sold in history and still ranks in the top 10 all-time most expensive domain names. (2021-12-01 16:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post

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Barnes and Noble Releases Nook

November 30, 2009

Book retailer Barnes and Noble releases their first Nook e-reader to compete with the highly successful Amazon Kindle, released two years earlier. (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/).

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Atari Introduces Pong

November 29, 1972

Atari introduces their first product, Pong, which would become the world’s first commercially successful video game. The popularity of Pong sparked the beginning of the video game industry with Atari being the leader in both arcade and home video gaming industries through the early 1980’s. (2021-12-01 03:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Movement Rules

Here is an updated list of our movement rules. Please take the time to read them. 

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Polaroid Instant Camera Goes on Sale

November 28, 1948

Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, 57 units of the first commercial instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, go on sale at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston. Producing sepia toned photographs in about one minute, the Model 95 became a hit almost as quickly. Polaroid ...

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AOL Buys Netscape

November 24, 1998

AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $4.2 billion. At the time it was considered a move by AOL and Netscape to merge forces to better compete with Microsoft in the browser and Internet provider markets. However, Microsoft’s dominance in the personal computer market ...

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World of Warcraft Released

November 23, 2004

Blizzard Entertainment releases the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is currently the most popular online game in history. (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/)

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Toy Story Changes the Movies

November 22, 1995

Walt Disney Pictures releases the Pixar Animation Studios production Toy Story, the first major motion picture that is created completely by computer-generated animation. A breakthrough film, Toy Story set the standard for all future computer-animated films to follow and catapulted Pixar into a household name. (2021-11-23 01:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post

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Computer Mouse Patented

November 17, 1970

Douglas Engelbart receives US patent 3,541,541 for his “X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System”, more commonly known as the computer mouse. Engelbart called his device a “mouse” because the cord looked like a tail. The mouse ...

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Steve Jobs Writes a Letter

November 16, 1982

Steve Jobs writes a letter to McIntosh Labs asking for rights to use “Macintosh” as the brand name of Apple’s still-in-development computer. McIntosh Labs makes high-end stereo equipment, and while Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh project, intentionally spelled the name with the letter “a” to differentiate App...

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Ethernet is Born

November 11, 1973

As invented by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, an Ethernet network functions for the first time. From its humble beginnings as a research project at Xerox PARC, Ethernet has developed into the de facto standard for business and home networking. (https://thisdayintech...

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The Day the Music Was Reborn

November 10, 2001

Apple ships the first iPod, the device that changed the course of both the music and technology industries. Of course, at the time, most “experts” could only focus on the fact that other devices cost less and may have had more impressive technical specs. Sort of like they do today. I guess when it comes to “expert...

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A Firefox Rises Out of the Ashes

November 9, 2004

The Mozilla Foundation releases version 1.0 of the Firefox web browser. Firefox is significant in Internet history because it represented the first serious alternative to the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in several years. By many estimations, Internet Explorer had risen to over 90% of browser market share s...

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He Put the “X” in X-Rays

November 8, 1895

German Physics Professor Wilhelm Röntgen stumbles upon what he would later describe as “X-rays” while experimenting with electrical discharge tubes. Curious as to what was causing a faint green glow on a nearby fluorescent screen, Röntgen began systematically studying the unknown rays and published the first paper on the...

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Pets.com Put to Sleep

November 7, 2000

After only 2 years in business, Pets.com shuts down operations. Cited as one of the biggest failures of the dot-com bubble, Pets.com was able to gain significant brand recognition through its extensive marketing campaign and sock puppet mascot but lost money due to an unsustainable business plan. Ironically, the company’s best-sell...

Fan made

Here is a hand drawing one of our fans made for me.

Setting up Two-Factor Authentication on Discord.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/219576828-Setting-up-Two-Factor-Authentication

Important Message From The Original Red Ranger.

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Android Introduced

November 5, 2007

Google introduces the Android platform, its mobile operating system for cell phones based on a modified version of the Linux operating system. The first Android-based phone would ship in September of 2008. (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/)<...

The Great LonDini Takes On Cameo

That’s right, Leo is now on Cameo. You can get a personalized video message for your family, friends, or yourself.

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Morris Worm Tunnels Through Internet

November 2, 1988

Robert Morris of Cornell University launches a self-replicating worm as part of a research project designed to determine the size of the early Internet. It was intended to count the number of computers that initiated connections when the worm was loaded onto them. However, due to a progr...

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First Transistor Radio Goes on Sale

November 1, 1954

The Industrial Development Engineering Associates company begins selling the Regency TR-1, the world’s first commercial transistor radio. Texas Instruments designed and developed the transistor technology who then partnered with IDEA to design and manufacturer the completed radio. The TR-1 sold over...

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DMCA Signed into Law

October 28, 1998

US President Bill Clinton signs into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The law is intended to criminalize the production and dissemination of technology designed to circumvent digital copyright protection (known as Digital Rights Management or DRM). However, the law has been very controversial, with accusations of abuse...

Making of the Masks

Wanted to show these pictures, so you all can seeing the detail that goes in the painting of the masks.