Tech History Today – March 16, 2013

Today in Tech History / March 16th, 2013

In 1926 – Robert Goddard conducted his first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.

In 1999 – Sony released Everquest the Massively multiplayer 3D world where you could play as a wizard, rogue or knight. It followed two years after Ultima Online would be followed several years later by World of Warcraft.

In 1999 – Mac OS X Server 1.0, the highly-anticipated precursor of OS X desktop version (code name Hera) was released.

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Self-Publishing, Synergy, and R.A. Salvatore!

Shows / March 15th, 2013

The author of 22 NYT Best Sellers, creator of Drizzt Do’Urden, and all around fantasy genre luminary R.A. Salvatore joins us to talk what’s next for the Drow Ranger, John Fogerty, and why you should quit writing (if you can). Enjoy!

More on our guest, R.A. Salvatore:
Website: http://www.rasalvatore.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/R_A_Salvatore
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/…

More on Bob’s works:

Forgotten Realms:
The Icewind Dale trilogy: http://www.goodreads.com/series/49133
The Dark Elf trilogy: http://www.goodreads.com/series/49135
The Legacy of the Drow: http://www.goodreads.com/series/49177
The Paths of Darkness: http://www.goodreads.com/series/49180
The Sellswords: http://www.goodreads.com/series/40474
The Hunter’s Blades: http://www.goodreads.com/series/49178
Transitions: http://www.goodreads.com/series/49181
Neverwinter: http://www.goodreads.com/series/49183

Original Series: 
The DemonWars Saga: http://www.goodreads.com/series/60432…
The Crimson Shadow series:http://www.goodreads.com/series/41638…
The Spearweilder’s Tale: http://www.goodreads.com/series/42273…
The Chronicles of Ynis Aielle:http://www.goodreads.com/series/41845…

“Metaphorical Basement Lurking” by Aaron:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScRwx…

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Tech News Today 711: Yo Dawg I Heard You Liked Boxes…

Shows/ Tech News Today / March 15th, 2013

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Are hacker punishments cruel and unusual? Samsung’s bad show and good phone, Facebook adding hashtags, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Running time:: 0:46:19

Kickstarter for Season 3 coverage

Shows / March 15th, 2013

The economy and the changing world of advertising have been hard on lots of companies, and Dragon SportsTalk Radio is no exception. That’s why we’re appealing to the fans to help keep FSL Tonight on the air.

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Tech History Today – March 15, 2013

Today in Tech History / March 15th, 2013

In 1813 – John Snow was born to a labourer’s family in York. He would go on to develop a ‘germ theory’ that helped combat cholera, and made great advances in anesthesiology. You know something John Snow.

In 1959 – The first atomic reactor built in the US for medical research, achieved criticality at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.

In 1985 – Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registered the Internet’s first domain name, symbolics.com. The domain is now owned by an investment company who uses it as a marketing device. The remains of the original Symbolics company survives in altered form at symbolics-dks.com.

In 2004 – Nicolas Jacobsen posted to a forum that he had hacked into T-Mobile’s network and stolen information from major celebrities like Paris Hilton. Jacobsen was later charged with with two counts of violating the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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Tech News Today 710: RIP Google Reader

Shows/ Tech News Today / March 14th, 2013

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Google’s Really Simple Stupidity, Twitter coming with music app, how to raise $2 million on Kickstarter, and more.

Guest: Martin Giles

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Running time:: 0:49:06

Season One of S&L Video coming to an end!

Shows / March 14th, 2013

​The S&L studio team does jazz hands.

As many of you may know from the most recent audio podcast, the video edition of S&L is coming to an end (for now). Huge thanks to Geek & Sundry for making the whole thing possible, for our friends at Pixel Corps for the production and post-production services (and for being awesome in general), and to Fonco Creative for bringing our set (and Lem) to life!​

Tom and I are looking into new ways to keep the show alive going forward, so don’t fret! We have our hands full right now will getting the anthology off the ground, but we promise you we’re working on it. ​

Episodes of the video show will continue through the end of March, and you can always keep up with the book club on Goodreads and the audio podcast!

Thanks for watching!​

Tech History Today – March 14, 2013

Today in Tech History / March 14th, 2013

In 1839, Sir John Herschel presented his ‘Note on the Art of Photography, or the application of the Chemical Rays of Light to the purposes of Pictorial Representation’ to the Royal Society, likely the first use of the word ‘photography’.

In 1879 – Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in Württemberg, Germany. He would grow up to work in the Swiss patent office. And reinvent physics.

In 1994 – Linus Torvalds posted to comp.os.linux.announce that Linux kernel release 1.0. had arrived.

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