What a Week in Tech History
Robert Letzeisen
Break time - after 4 decades of over achieving quota's as a Rep, Channel Manager, V/P Sales, and the founder of two tech start-ups, PatienTree, and Technology Fusions I am putting my career on pause.
Above - What was billed as PORTABLE, weighed 30 lbs. celebrated its' 33rd birthday this week and sold for $2,795? Out with the Green in with the Amber!
One of the few Apple's that, although first to the space, missed the mark (marketing) completely - would have been 33 today.
The first Computer Bulletin Board (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois), Anniversary of the Acclaimed Windows Refund Day in 1999 and the Linux Users March on Microsoft protesting Windows pre-install.
Of course one that will be forever in the record books, - The now-ubiquitous video sharing site, YouTube, is launched on 2/15/2005. Few web sites have had such an immediate impact on our usage of the Internet. Less than 2 years after its launch, Google paid $1.65 billion dollars to purchase it. Today, it only trails Facebook, Google, and Gmail as the most visited web sites in the world.
But the award really should go to Haleyville, Alabama, for the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system to be put in service in February 16, 1968 and the hundreds of millions of calls that are now fielded each year in the U.S. saving lives, avoiding tragedy's, and sometimes, like on January 31 this year, helping someone deliver a baby during a snow storm!
Welcome to our World "Baby Jack" and KUDOS to Law Enforcement, WAUKESHA, Wisconsin - GREAT JOB!