Lee Felsenstein is an electronic design engineer who was a participant in the early development of personal computers. Two of his designs (the Sol-20 and the Osborne-1) are on display in the Smithsonian, as is the story of the Homebrew Computer Club, which he chaired and where open architecture was developed. Most recently, Lee was a senior researcher at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto, participating in long-range projects to re-invent the information infrastructure. Mr. Felsenstein lives in Palo Alto, CA. He holds several patents and in 1994 received a Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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
DVD burners appear.
GPS bombs are used by the U.S. military in the Iraq War.
The Blaster worm infects PCs worldwide. It was also followed soon after by the Sobig.F worm.
AMD's Athlon 64 and the Apple G5 are introduced.
The Slammer worm appears.
Microsoft releases Office 2003.
The grandaddy of social networking sites MySpace is launched.
The business oriented social networking service LinkedIn goes live.