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DNS celebrates 25th birthday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:50:56 +0000

The internet's Domain Name System is 25 years old this week. Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, is credited with inventing the DNS in 1983. Mockapetris shared his thoughts on the technology during... Read more...

Philips Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Compact Disc

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:03:36 +0000

Tomorrow will the be the day exactly 25 years ago, on August 17, 1982, when Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world's first compact disc (CD) at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, just outside of Hanover,... Read more...

The IBM PC Celebrates its 25th Birthday

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:25:22 +0000

On the 12th of August 1981 the first ever personal computer - the IBM 5150 - was announced. It became one of the most important releases in the world of technology, ever. With a fraction... Read more...

FTC Celebrates CAN-SPAM with Spam Suits

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:06:18 +0000

At the two year anniversary of the CAN-SPAM act, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced legal actions against spammers, including joint operations with state attorneys general and the Canadian government. On Tuesday, the FTC said... Read more...

Mozilla Celebrates 10 Million Firefox Downloads

Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:04:40 +0000

The Mozilla Foundation has announced that its Firefox browser has been downloaded over 10 million times in the last 31 days. On average, Firefox has been downloaded 4 times per second since its release on... Read more...

Apple's iTunes celebrates first anniversary

Sat, 01 May 2004 15:15:28 +0000

Thanks rumbleph1sh. In its first year, Apple Computer Inc.'s online music store has sold more than 70 million songs, short of its original 100-million-song target but more than anyone else, the company said Wednesday. ... Read more...

Microsoft celebrates Longhorn 'Gold Release' early

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:23:35 +0000

How do you keep a large team of developers on a big project motivated during the inevitable slippages? Easy: you just pretend the project is already complete. The next release of Windows is a full... Read more...

Google celebrates fifth birthday

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:44:27 +0000

The world's most popular site for searching the web, Google, is five years old. It is now an internet giant, used by millions of people every day in more than 80 languages. The search engine... Read more...

Spam celebrates silver jubilee

Tom Warren — Sun, 04 May 2003 16:57:39 +0000

One of the most annoying aspects of the internet, spam, is 25 years old this weekend. Net historians have trawled records and found that the first junk e-mail message hawking a company... Read more...

Microsoft Hardware Celebrates 20 Years of Product Innovation

Tom Warren — Fri, 02 May 2003 13:46:29 +0000

Breakthrough Technology, Comfort and Style Redefine Customer Experience Where were you in 1983? Ronald Reagan was president; every child wanted a Cabbage Patch doll; the final episode of "M*A*S*H" aired; compact discs... Read more...

Konami celebrates 30th anniversary

Marcel Klum — Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:02:58 +0000

March marks Konami's 30th anniversary, and it has been quite a journey for the one-time Pachinko maker, from fledgling arcade developer who couldn't even score a distribution deal (SEGA had to sell "Frogger" machines for... Read more...

Ultima Online Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:24:27 +0000

Launched in 1997, UO was a pioneer in the world of online gaming and defined the category of massively multiplayer Internet-based entertainment and is still recognized as the most immersive of any online world. Ultima... Read more...

Email Celebrates 30th Birthday

Steven Parker — Sat, 06 Oct 2001 11:26:52 +0000

Cheers Paul Thurrot for his blurb of the week otherwise known as WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 8. An interesting blurb is the fact that Email turned 30 this week, I can happily say... Read more...

Microsoft Research celebrates 10 years

Steven Parker — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:16:22 +0000

In 1991, when Microsoft was still a fairly small company and many businesses were scaling back their research efforts, Microsoft made a strong commitment to basic research in computer science by establishing the first research... Read more...