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March 24, 1802: The Puffing Devil Steam Engine Patent

Puffing Devil Steam Engine 1802 – A patent for the first steam engine was issued to Richard Trevithick and Andrew Viviane. The machine was called the “Puffing Devil” or “Puffer”. The engine could...

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April 14, 1996: JenniCam Debuts

April 14, 1996: Jennicam began livestreaming 1996–  Nineteen year old Jennifer Kaye Ringley takes several webcams and places them within her house. For the next seven years, she would livestream her...

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April 30, 1993: World Wide Web Transferred to Public Domain

April 30, 1993: World Wide Web enters in Public Domain 1993 – You may see www, but it’s true meaning is World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee wrote WorldWideWeb during the 1990, while working for CERN. He...

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May 21, 2001: Mac OS X Server Released

OS X Server 2001 – Apple released the Mac OS X Server, based on Rhapsody, which was a hybrid of NeXT OPENSTEP. The server ran file services, Macintosh Manager, Quicktime Streaming Server, WebObjects,...

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June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel

June 6, 2011 Steve Jobs gave his last keynote for Apple 2005 – Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then...

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September 29, 2001: Mac OSX “Puma” Releases

Apple 2001– With one version of the Apple OS X under it’s belt, “Puma” – or OS X 10.1 is released to the public. Updates would include extended DVD support and the ability to burn DVD – RW. There were...

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October 12, 1988: Steve Jobs Introduces NeXT Computer

Steve Jobs Debuts NeXT Computer 1988– Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. Steve Jobs shows off the NeXT Computer featuring the Motorola 68030 microprocessor at 25 MHz. The computer...

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December 2, 1991: Apple Quicktime

Quicktime 1991 – What was first a Multimedia add-on for System 6, Quicktime has spent 21 years being Apples’ proprietary player. The original version contained graphics, animation and Video codecs –...

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December 20, 1996: Apple Buys NeXT

Apple Acquires NeXT 1996 – Steve Jobs started Apple. When he left Apple, he started NeXT. When Apple started to fall, Steve Jobs came back. Of course, having 2 computer companies is not a good idea –...

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January 9, 2001: Mac OSX, iTunes Media Platform Announced

iTunes At MacWorld 2001, Steve Jobs announced Mac OSX – the base OS for Apple for the next couple decades. With Darwin, an open source BSD Unix service, 2D (Quartz), 3D (OpenGL) and Quicktime (QT5)....

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