Coming up in this episode…

* Star Trek suing Star Trek

* Vinyl

* NASA asks, “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”

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* What sort of geek gifts did you get this year?

* Justin: My friend bought me a book pillow from Thinkgeek. My cats promptly took it over and I haven’t used it since.

* Wayne: Does a Rush R40 DVD set count as a geeky gift?

* Gary: My wife got me this precious moments scene. I so want to cosplay it and take a picture.

On This Day In History for January 6, 2016

This is the sixth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining in 2016.

* It was on this date in 1838 that Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

* It was 109 years ago today that Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

* German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift on this date in 1912.

* Also today in 1929, Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India’s poorest and sick people.

* January 6, 1930, The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.

* Thomas Edison submits his last patent application on this date in 1931.

* Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world on this date in 1947.

* It was 42 years ago today in response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

* Also today in 1994, Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* French martyr and saint, Joan of Arc, born on this date in 1412.

* Thomas Fincke, the Danish mathematician and physicist was born today in 1561.

* Also born on this date in 1807, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist, Joseph Petzval.

* Born January 6, 1822, German archaeologist and businessman Heinrich Schliemann.

* Actor, director, and screenwriter, Tom Mix was born today in 1880.

* Born on that same date in 1899, German engineer Heinrich Nordhoff.

* Actor and producer, Danny Thomas was also born today in 1912.

* Today is also the birthday of Finnish astronomer, Liisi Oterman.

* If this man hadn’t been born, Marty McFly would have had a totally different time machine. John DeLorean, would have been 91 today.

* Since we haven’t had a Russian name yet, it’s also the birthday of engineer and astronaut Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born today in 1933.

* Computer scientist and academic Susan B. Horwitz would have been 61 today.

* Astrophysicist and astronaut, Michael Foale turns 59.

* And finally, Daryl from the Walking Dead, Norman Reedus celebrates his 47th birthday today.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 6, 2016

News

* Priest suspended for hoverboarding during service

Listener Birthday Calendar

* 06 – Steve Therrien (Canada)

* 08 – Elvis!

* 09 – Lingo from the Brit & Yankee pubcast

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Hacks & Strange Stories

Coming up in this episode…

* Decoys

* Dinosaurs

* Better socks than last week!

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* Krazy Joe – TV show to be rebooted

On This Day In History for December 23, 2015

This is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are eight days remaining in 2015.

* It was on this date in 1783 that George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

* That same date in 1823, “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, also known as “The Night Before Christmas”, is published anonymously.

* December 23, 1893, The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

* The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System on this date in 1913.

* That same date in 1938, the discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.

* It was 68 years ago today that The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

* December 23, 1954, First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

* Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world’s highest self-supporting iron tower was today in 1958.

* 45 years ago today, The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.

* It was 29 years ago today that Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* Richard Arkwright, English businessman, and inventor invented the Water frame and Spinning frame born on this date in 1732.

* German engineer and the man behind several hand-powered submarine designs, Wilhelm Bauer was born today in 1822.

* Also born today in 1896, Italian lieutenant and author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

* The co-developer of the Transmission Control Protocol, computer scientist, and engineer, Bob Kahn turns 77.

* and finally, physicist and chemist Stefan Hell is 53.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 23, 2015

News

* Raptor pulls Santa’s sleigh – from Doug in Australia

* Decoy packages

* Hitchbot will live on in a museum

Listener Birthday Calendar

* 23 – Richard Green

* 24 – MaDBooM

* 25 – Joel Parks (Agrojag-Ama)

* 29 – CMenn

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Hacks & Strange Stories

* Would you bet on your marriage?

* Netflix socks?

Shout out to the chat room

Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30 PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg,

Coming up in this episode…

Real mail to email

Wet socks

Santa didn’t get nuked

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Lejon from Chandler: Why D&D books don’t appear in libraries

Wil the Computer Guy: TV shows/movies to be rebooted

Wil the Computer Guy: Favorite quotes

On This Day In History for December 16, 2015

This is the 350th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1497 that Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

December 16, 1707, was the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.

It was 242 years ago today as part of the American Revolution, the Boston Tea Party occurs when members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

On this date in 1947, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

This is the date that the world officially adopted the name of “Euro”.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to…

Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist Ali Qushji, born on this date in 1474.

Also born on this date in 1863, the Spanish philosopher and author who is known for the phrase “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, George Santayana.

Born on the same date in 1863, the Spanish philosopher and author who is known for the phrase “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, George Santayana.

The founder of Pickwick Records, Cy Leslie would have been 93 today.

Author and philosopher, Philip K. Dick was born today in 1928.

Adam Riess, the American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate turns 46.

and finally computer scientist, Jen Golbeck is 39.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 16, 1015

News

Tokyo’s solution to rogue drones

USPS will send you images of what’s in your mailbox

Listener Birthday Calendar

17 – Jorge Schrauwen

20 – Phil Burchill 42 this year (2015)! Ten years of listening to Technorama!

21 – James Ballard KarakSindru

22 – Bo Pace

22 – Luke “Chuck’s Stalker” Smith (2000)

22 – Jason Pelloni, Tampa, FL

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Hacks & Strange Stories

An Amiga has been running school district’s AC for 30 years

Pee-powered socks

Shout out to the chat room

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Remember When

That time a girl wrote to JFK asking if the Soviets would nuke Santa Claus

Media Corner

Coming up in this episode…

Ronald Reagan on Star Trek

Time Capsules

Captain EO

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Wayne:

If Reboot gets rebooted, will that cause a rift in the space-time continuum?

On This Day In History for December 9, 2015

This is the 343rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1793 that New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

Also today in 1888, Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.

That same date in 1950, Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

As part of the Red Scare, General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company 62 years ago today.

December 9, 1958, The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.

That same date in 1962, The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

This is the anniversary of the Kecksburg UFO incident. A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object 50 years ago today.

December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.

47 years ago today, Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as “The Mother of All Demos”, publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction 36 years ago today.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Dutch mathematician and cartographer, Gemma Frisius, born on this date in 1508.

Also born on this date in 1571, Metius, the Dutch mathematician and astronomer.

The man who developed Pilates, fitness expert Joseph Pilates was born today in 1883.

Clarence Birdseye, the founder of Birds Eye, was born on December 9, 1886.

The computer scientist who developed COBOL, Grace Hopper would have been 109 today.

A string of famous actors were born on this date including, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 1909, Kirk Douglas in 1916, Redd Foxx in 1922, Dick Van Patten in 1928, and Judi Dench in 1934.

and finally, Donny Osmond is 58.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 9, 2015

News

Construction Permits Revoked on the Thirty-Meter Telescope in Hawaii

News from Phoenix ComiCon Fan Fest

Listener Birthday Calendar

09 – Steve Kite (BigUnit62)

12 – Deckrd

12 – Kevin Burns (Soleblaze)

12 – Matt Blocker TheGiant

12 – Pamela Gay

14 – Michael Spence from Brother Osric’s Scriptorium

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Hacks & Strange Stories

Going to Korea? Clear your browser history and cookies first!

Astronaut plans to run the London...

Coming up in this episode…

* Pushbutton pizza

* Russian tax collectors will try anything

* The kitchen of the future

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* VM from Will the Computer Guy

* VM from Brad P in NJ

* Email from Charles Stell

Hello Chuck, Kreg, Groupies, hangers-on, and those who just can not find the door out of the studio, This morning I was surprised to find out that my 14 year old niece is a superhero fan.  She arrived in a Captain America onesie. (With boots.  It is the country, after all.)   Please forgive the quality of the photo.  It was taken with my tablet and since it was outdoors I was wearing polarizing sunglasses to protect my eyes from rays ‘n things which made it difficult to see the screen properly. Here is an idea for you. The Technorama Pronunciation Guide.  It might make the news easier to understand for new listeners. Keep up the good work, Charles

* What show would you like to see rebooted, Justin?

Disney’s Gargoyles. Still with Keith David as a voice. And the Star Trek: TNG cast too.

Babylon 5 on something other than Warner Brothers. That company is poison to cross media, and someone new could bring the series to a Star Trek level with the right love. Hey ST and SW are both in reboot/restart mode. It would work.

The Tick, both the live action and Cartoon versions, although I think I heard rumors of a Netflix reboot of the live action series.

Tenchi Muyo, because it has had two reboots. Why not a third?

Uh, hrm. Oh why not a complete reboot of the Disney cartoons through the late 80s to the late 90s and combine them into a Kingdom hearts TV show/movie franchise.

On This Day In History for December 2, 2015

This is the 336th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining in 2015.

* It was on this date in 1409 that The University of Leipzig opens.

* That same date in 1867, At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

* It was 88 years ago today that Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

* New York City’s LaGuardia Airport opens 76 years ago today.

* It was 22 years ago today that NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-61.

* 14 years ago today, Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Happy birthday goes out to:

* French painter Georges Seurat born on this date in 1859.

* One of the co-founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus, Charles Edward Ringling, was born today in 1863

* Actress Cathy Lee Crosby turns 71 today.

* Also born today in 1944, Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace.

* Actress and producer Lucy Liu is 47.

* Tennis player Monica Seles is 42.

* Singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress Britney Spears is 34.

* And #12, Green Bay Packers quarterback, Aaron Rodgers,turns 32 today.

Don’t forget kids, you can subscribe to the uber-geek calendar on our website!

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 2, 2015

News

* Another Star Trek gadget that almost was – thankfully not

* Now there’s an easy-button for Domino’s Pizza

Listener Birthday Calendar

* 02 – Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast

* 02 – Tim Bourquin

Coming up in this episode…

A better idea for the selfie-stick

How not to apply for a police job

Why is the sky blue?

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Vmail: Will the Computer Guy

Q: What was your first screen name?

Justin: Dronebrain

Scott: My first screen name was “King Nothing”. That was my Metallica phase!

On This Day In History for November 25, 2015

This is the 329th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1915 that Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

It was 75 years ago today that World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

November 25, 1952, Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.

That same date in 1984, Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

French astronomer and botanist Jean-François Séguier, born on this date in 1703.

Also born on that same date in 1814 is German physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer.

Singer Percy Sledge would have been 75 had he not died earlier this year.

Actor, author, and lawyer, Ben Stein turns 71 today.

And finally, John F. Kennedy Jr, would have been 55 today.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 25, 2015

News

Lego slippers!

Man with outstanding warrants applies for Police job

Woman fights to wear pasta strainer on her driver’s license photo

Listener Birthday Calendar

November

25 – Lane Williams

26 – Joanie

27 – Mike Stackpole

27 – Rob Walch

27 – Brad P. from NJ

28 – Ben Sweetser

29 – Crystal Smalling

30 – Scott Sigler

December

01 – Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM)

01 – Phil Rossi

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Hacks & Strange Stories

Embarrassed about a selfie-stick?

Gold Kit Kats?

Shout out to the chat room

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Remember When

Windows turns 30

Remember the Playskool computer?

Media Corner

Coming up in this episode…

Self-driving offenses

Old computers

Death of dead tech

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Q: What movie did you walk out of?

Myron: Kung Pow – Enter the Fist

Q: What sci-fi tech do you want?

Ringmaster Greg: The piece of science fiction tech that I’d like to have is, in my humble opinion, the most powerful piece of tech in the universe. And that would be the box from Red Shirts. You know the one that solves all dire problems just in the nick of time. Yeah, I think we could all really use one of those.

On This Day In History for November 18, 2015

This is the 322nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1307 that William Tell shoots an apple off his son’s head.

That same date in 1493, Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.

It was 150 years ago today that Mark Twain’s short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is published in the New York Saturday Press.

November 18, 1883, American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

It was 87 years ago today that Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday.

Also today in 1963, The first push-button telephone goes into service.

37 years ago today, In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

King’s Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city’s busiest underground station, King’s Cross St Pancras on this date in 1987.

That same date in 2013, NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

Louis Daguerre, French physicist, and photographer, and developer of the daguerreotype was born on this date in 1787.

American journalist and author Dorothy Dix was born today in 1861.

Also born today in 1901 – George Gallup, the American statistician and academic.

American admiral, pilot, and astronaut Alan Shepard would have been 92 today.

And finally, actress Linda Evans turns 73.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 18, 2015

News

Google’s self-driving car pulled over by police

Gene Amdahl dies

Listener Birthday Calendar

13 – Pippa (London UK)

13 – Jennifer Therrien (Canada)

15 – Chuck Jolley aka nitestarr – (Horn Lake, MS)

15 – Tabitha Grace Smith

16 – Tim Elliott (the one from Winecast)

17 – Lorrie Mennenga

17 – Mike Smith

19 – Laura Burns

22 – Tom Posz – (from California, USA)

23 – Nobilis Reed

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Hacks & Strange Stories

Coming up in this episode…

* More Force Awakens rumors

* You could own your own satellite

* an awesome 8-track play

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* What was the worst sci-fi book you’ve ever read:

* Mad Marv: Hyperion – I don’t always remember the books I couldn’t finish, but this one I remember because it was the first (and so far only) time I returned a book to Audible for a refund. Marv

* Nicholas: A friend of mine recently told me to read the “Witches of Karres”, and being a fast reader I did.  The book was something like 300 pages long and the only reason I read them all was because I have some sort of OCD that means I can’t leave a book unread.  It was only after I was done my friend admitted he wanted to torture me. The book Kreg read was “The Return”  http://ift.tt/1KBQ43l Yes, it was horrible.

On This Day In History for November 4, 2015

This is the 308th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining in 2015.

* It was on this date in 1783 that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.

* November 4, 1847, Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.

* Also today in 1890, City and South London Railway: London’s first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

* It was 93 years ago today that In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

* The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA 63 years ago today.

* 55 years ago today, At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.

* It was 42 years ago today that The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* French mathematician and engineer, Pierre-Simon Girard born on this date in 1765.

* Born that same date in 1879 American actor and screenwriter, Will Rogers.

* Today is also the birthday of the inventor of the tractor – Harry Ferguson, born today in 1884.

* November 4th is the birthday of the woman who created the Barbie doll – Ruth Handler who would have been 99 today.

* Actor Art Carney would have been 97

* Dutch businessman, Freddy Heineken was born today in 1923, I’m sure you can figure out what his business is from his last name

* Actress Loretta Swit is 78 today.

* and finally, the original Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio turns 54!

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 4, 2015

News

* For Sale: Two Satellites, Lightly Used

* Man found not guilty for shooting down a drone

Listener Birthday Calendar

* 04 – Avner (OMG, it’s 2014 – I’m 40 already)

* 05 – Michael Corlett (from New Zealand)

* 08 – Mark, the Encaffeinated ONE, host of The Weird Show

* 08 – OnTheDrift

* 10 – John Noble from the Island

Coming up in this episode…

* Chicken tweets

* Imperial statues

* Worst Halloween costume ever

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* What was the worst sci-fi novel you’ve ever read?

Wayne: “Star Wars Millennium Falcon: Owner’s Workshop Manual” Had no plot whatsoever.

John: “Faster Than The Speed of Love” by Brian Griffin.

Justin: I’m actually having a hard time remembering any. If a book is so bad I put it down I just tend to forget about it unless I somehow pick it back up down the road.

On This Day In History for October 28, 2015

This is the 301st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining in 2015.

* It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.

* That same date in 1538, The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.

* It was 379 years ago today that A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

* Also today in 1664, The Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

* The first railroad in Spain between Barcelona and Mataró is opened 167 years ago today.

* In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty 129 years ago today.

* Also today in 1929, Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.

* That same date in 1942, The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.

* It was 67 years ago today that Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

* Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket on this date in 1971.

* NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program 6 years ago today.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

* French mathematician and engineer, Antoine Deparcieux, born on this date in 1703.

* Born on that same date in 1718, Ignacije Szentmartony, the Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer

* Also born today in 1793, the founder of Remington Arms, Eliphalet Remington.

* October 28, 1880, is also the birthday of Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer Wilhelm Anderson

* The co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates turns 60 today.

* Turning 55 today is Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist, and mathematician

* Princess Vespa from Spaceballs, actress Daphne Zuniga, is 53.

* Another actress/producer, Julia Roberts is 48.

* and finally also turning 48 is the video game designer and the co-founder of Id Software, John Romero.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 28, 2015

News

* Facebook site helps start your programming career

Listener Birthday Calendar

October

* 28 – Dylan Licata (San Antonio)

* 29 – James Clark, MegaPodzilla

* 30 – WolfGeek (Indiana)

November

* 01 – Amber Elstad

* 03 – Ken Pace

* 03 – Craig Glassner (aka Ranger Craig)