Coming up in this episode…
- Don’t like what you’re kids are doing online? We’ve got an answer.
- A wedding proposal based on our show sign off?
- Do you remember the first PC game? It’s baaaaack!
Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes from the show.
Introducing the team…
- Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
- 15 – Philip from Australia
- 19 – Scooter in Connecticut
- 19 – Steve in Sumter
- If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.
- We are doing this again on Google+ as a hangout. We’d love to see you there and hopefully one day we’ll get the On Air capability.
On This Day In History for February 15, 2012
- It was on this date in 1946 that ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
- that same date in 1971, The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
- Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time on this date in 1972.
- February 15, 1982 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
- At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people today in 1996.
- and just 11 years ago in 2001 the first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei born on this date in 1564.
- Cyrus McCormick, American inventor was born today in 1809
- Also born on this date in 1812 – Jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany
- Irish Antarctic exploer Sir Ernest Shackleton was born on this date in 1874
- turn 78 today is Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth
- Astronaut Roger Chaffee was born today in 1935
- One of our favorite cartoonists, Matt Groening turns 58.
- and finally NASA Astronaut Leland D. Melvin, celebrates his 48th birthday today
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 15, 2012
Listener Feedback
- Matt Beckwith
- Suzie the Geek
- Mark in Memphis
News
- Don’t like what your kids are doing on Facebook? Here’s one way to deal with it.
Hacks & Strange Stories
Remember When
Media Corner
- Space 1999 remake?
- Also available on io9.com
- Lucas claims that Greedo always shot first
What the Kreg!
- Saw Star Wars 1 in 3D
- Saw Space Junk
Geek Library
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