On this day (in 1947) the term "Bug" is documented for the first time for computer failures. "First real case of a bug found," according to the Mark II engineers, who found the moth and were the first to literally "debug" a machine.
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On a day like today (4 September) but in 1888, the Kodak brand was registered by George Eastman, which became a multinational brand dedicated to photography, producing its first camera model "Brownie" a few years later.
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On a day like today (September 3) but in 1995, 𝐴𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑊𝑒𝑏 was born at the hands of Pierre Omidyar, which later became 𝒆𝑩𝒂𝒚, with a broken laser pointer being the first item sold online by the site
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Apple's #Pippin video game console, distributed by Bandai in the US and Japan in 1996, was a resounding failure. Voted one of the 25 worst tech products of all time, it competed with the Saturn and PlayStation. The 100s of units sold served as servers.
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On a day like today (August 27) but in 2006, Linux Mint v1.0 (called Ada, and later always with women's names in alphabetical order) was released, one of the most popular and stable versions of Linux for computers.
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On this day (August 26) Lee De Forest, known as the Father of Electronics, was born.
He's known as the Father of Electronics for his invention of the Triode, which amplifies signals that made the industry take off, already called electronics for its achievements.
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