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Daily Tech History: September 21, 2012 — iPhone 5 Goes On Sale
The iPhone 5, with its taller 4-inch screen, LTE and new Lightning connector, hit stores on September 21, 2012.
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Daily Tech History: September 20, 1954 — The First FORTRAN Program Runs
On September 20, 1954, the first FORTRAN program ran on an IBM 704, launching the language that would define scientific computing for decades.
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Daily Tech History: September 19, 1982 — The First Emoticon Is Born
On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Scott Fahlman posted 🙂 and 🙁 to a campus bulletin board, creating the first documented emoticon.
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Daily Tech History: September 18, 1989 — NeXTSTEP 1.0 Ships
On September 18, 1989, Steve Jobs’ NeXT shipped NeXTSTEP 1.0, the operating system whose DNA would eventually become Mac OS X and iOS.
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Daily Tech History: September 17, 1976 — Space Shuttle Enterprise Rolls Out
On September 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle orbiter, Enterprise, kicking off the shuttle program’s atmospheric test flights.
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Daily Tech History: September 16, 1959 — The Xerox 914 Copier Debuts
On September 16, 1959, Xerox unveiled the 914, the first plain-paper copier, in a televised demo — and turned its name into a household…
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Daily Tech History: September 15, 1947 — The ACM Is Founded at Columbia University
On September 15, 1947, computing pioneers met at Columbia University to found the organization that became the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Daily Tech History: September 14, 1956 — IBM Announces the RAMAC, the First Hard Disk Drive
On September 14, 1956, IBM publicly announced the RAMAC 305 system, introducing the world’s first commercial hard disk drive and the random-access storage model…
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Daily Tech History: September 13, 1959 — Luna 2 Becomes First Human-Made Object to Reach the Moon
On this day in 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 crashed into the Moon, becoming the first human-made object to reach another celestial body.
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Daily Tech History: September 12, 1958 — The First Integrated Circuit
On September 12, 1958, Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit at Texas Instruments, laying the foundation for modern electronics.