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
The Chernobyl virus is discovered. It's the first to infect the BIOS.
Fear of the Millennium Bug causes industrialized countries and companies around the world to spend billions in correcting the error before the dawn of the new century.
Shawn Fanning creates Napster.
The Melissa virus appears, one of the fastest spreading viruses ever.
The First Internet Bank of Indiana is online. It is the first internet-only banking service.