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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
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.