Today in History of Computer

Today in History of Computer - 26th July

Sunday 29 July 2012

In 1973:
Chris Prillo Born!!
Full Name: Christopher Joseph Prillo
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He is the founder of Lockergnome which is a network,mailing lists, web forum.
He spent two years in TechTV program Call for Help!
Now he hosts many sites like Youtube,Ustream.tv, CBC,CNN and his own website .
In 2001 has hosted Gnomedex, a yearly conference covering art, social media, blogs, science.

In 1984,
Zork 1 Game released!
Zork: The Great UnderGround Empire Part 1.
The game was placed in Zork Calendar year 948GUE.
It was written by four great persons
Marc Blank

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Dave Lebling
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Bruce Daniels
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Tim Anderson

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published by Infocom!
Later on Zork II
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and
Zork III
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was released!

In 1996,
AT&T and Microsoft Ally to promote IE i.e Internet Explorer.

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AT&T and Microsoft corp announced an alliance to promote Microsoft's World Wide Web browser named Internet Explorer in a designed to allow both Giant to gain easier entrance into the Internet business.

In 2007,
The domain name business.com was bought for $345 Million which was most expensive domain ever by R.H.Donnelley!!
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