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This Day In Tech History
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949More Tech History
Google stock goes public in August to the delight of investors.
IBM sells it's PC division to Chinese company Lenovo.
The MyDoom virus appears.
The first cell phone virus is discovered.
Firefox 1.0 is released.
Blue Gene/L takes the title of world's fastest supercomputer.
The first incarnation of Facebook is created at Harvard University.