Day in Tech History Pre-Cap for October 24-30th

Last Updated on February 24, 2024 10:43 am by Jeffrey Powers

Every Week, we’ll give you a Pre-cap of what will the Day in Tech History (www.dayintechhistory.com) will be talking about. Of course, the day in tech history is a daily rundown of technology history – 365 days a year. So there is always a new podcast to listen to!

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• October 24: 1861 – Western Union Completes the first transcontinental telegraph line across US
• October 25: 2001 – Windows XP is Released
• October 26: 1936 – First electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into operation
• October 27: 1983 – Richard Stallman announces GNU
• October 28: 1955 – Happy Birthday Bill Gates
• October 29: 1945 – IBM created the first hard disk drive
• October 30: 1938 – Orson Wells “War of the Worlds”