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Wide World of Tech #11 - Tech Constructs!

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  • Welcome
  • Tech News
    • Mini-Satellites in space
  • Chinese satellite falling but where
  • Facebook Stream 25 afternoon MLB games
  • Sports News
    • March Madness is coming
  • NFL News
  • NCAA $1B
  • NBA
  • Placing Bets
    • How many games will the Browns win?
  • Big Topic
    • Rise and fall of tech constructs - what really matters?
  • This week/day in tech history
    • March 4, 1956 - An Wang Sells core memory patent to IBM
  • March 5, 1995 - Yahoo! officially launches
  • March 9 1999 - AL Gore invents the internet
  • March is Women’s history month!
    • Grace Hopper. Responsible for starting UNIVAC, COBOL. 1st bug
  • "Admiral Hopper believed that the major obstacle to computers in non-scientific and business applications was the dearth of programmers for these far from user-friendly new machines. The key to opening up new worlds to computing, she knew, was the development and refinement of programming languages - languages that could be understood and used by people who were neither mathematicians nor computer experts. It took several years for her to demonstrate that this idea was feasible."
  • Final Word
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    Wide World of TechBy WWoTech Team