One of the world’s largest computer and electronics manufacturers. NEC Technologies is the second largest producers of semiconductors behind Intel, and its line of monitors has set the standard for many years. It also produces PCs and notebook computers, and controls half the PC market in Japan.
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 Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN) is released.
Windows 95 is introduced.
Amazon sells it's first book online.
Ebay is founded. It would soon soar to become the largest online auction site.
Toy Story becomes the first full length feature film made completely with CGI.
Apache Web Server arrives.
The Sony PlayStation is released in North America.
The Ruby programming language is publicly released.
Red Hat Inc. is formed.
The Opera web browser debuts.
PHP is introduced, becoming a widely popular web technology.
Development of Javascript begins at Netscape.
Search engine AltaVista is launched by DEC.
Vladimir Levin hacks Citibank computers and transfers 10 million USD to his own account.
Tadpole Computers unveils the Tadpole ALPHABook 1.