Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1968: Planet of the Apes is released in theaters.
Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/2010: Matt Smith takes over as the Eleventh Doctor. #DOCTORWHO
Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1981: The first laptop computer (The Osborne 1) is announced by Adam Osborne and sells for $1,795.
Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1973: Martin Cooper places the first cellular call. This call is made to his rival at AT&T's Bell Labs.
Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1978: Star Wars is nominated for 10 Oscars and won 6 at the Academy Awards
Today in #GeekHistory 4/3/1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is released in the UK.
Today in #GeekHistory 4/1/1955: The last Captain Video & His Video Rangers (first popular sci-fi program on American TV) airs on DuMont Television Network
Today in #GeekHistory 4/1/1974: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig's philosophical road-trip story, is published.
Today in #GeekHistory 4/1/1992: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is released by Nintendo for the Super NES in the U.S.
Today in #GeekHistory 4/1/1976: Apple Inc. is established as Apple Computer in Cupertino, CA by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
Today in #GeekHistory 4/1/1960: The first successful weather satellite, Tiros 1, is launced by the United States at Cape Canaveral, Florida
Today in #GeekHistory 3/31/1951: 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC I, delivered to US Census Bureau in 1951.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/31/1983: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is released.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/31/1966: Soviet Luna 10 is launched. It will be the first artificial satellite to orbit the moon.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/29/2003: An anonymous hacker uncovers a way to run Linux on Xbox, by exploiting a buffer overflow flaw in 007: Agent Under Fire
A Sad day in #GeekHistory 3/28/1987: Doctor Who's Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton dies.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/28/1969: The final episode of Star Trek is pre-empted, due to the death of Dwight Eisenhower.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/27/1971: Nathan Fillion, Captain Mal Reynolds of Serenity and Firefly, as well as ABC's Castle is born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Today in #GeekHistory 3/26/1989: Science fiction classic Quantum Leap premiers on NBC. Oh boy.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/26/2005 #DOCTORWHO relaunches with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/26/1931: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of Star Trek, & William Bell on Fringe is born
Today in #GeekHistory 3/25/2004: Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV enraging fans everywhere
Today in #GeekHistory 3/25: Tolkien Reading Day: First celebrated in 2003 to informally celebrate the readings from the trilogy
Le premier firewall sous MS-DOS ? Le frein de ta peur de taper del *.*
J’Apprends MS-DOS de Microsoft,
Un tutovaguement interactif, mais pas d’undo et pas de pitié.
Tu apprenais… ou tu cassais tout.
Et bizarrement, c’est comme ça qu’on a fabriqué des générations de devs solides 💾
As-tu pratiqué ?
#RetroComputing #MSDOS #GeekHistory
Today in #GeekHistory 3/24/1993: After 4 seasons, the final episode of Doogie Howser, M.D. (starring Neil Patrick Harris) airs on ABC
Today in #GeekHistory 3/24/1990: ALF (Alien Life Form) ends after 4 seasons and 102 episodes
Today in #GeekHistory 3/24/1874: Harry Houdini, famed magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer is born in Hungary as Erik Weisz
Today in #GeekHistory 3/23/2001: Russian space station Mir descends into Earth's atmosphere and burns up, as planned.
Today in #GeekHistory 3/23/2003: Nintendo releases the Game Boy Advance SP in North America for $99.95USD
Today in #GeekHistory 3/23/1965: The first manned Gemni flight (Gemini 3) launches, carrying Virgil I. Grissom, John W. Young and their corned beef sandwich