This Day in Personal Computer and Video Game History
December 23

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What happened in history on this day: December 23?

On December 23 in ...

Personal Computer history:

  • 1947 - Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen demonstrate their new invention of the point-contact transistor amplifier. The name transistor is short for "transfer resistance".
  • 1994 - Netscape Communications, Spyglass, and the University of Illinois settle their web browser lawsuit out of court. Netscape pays US$2.2 million in damages, and will pay up to US$1.4 million in licensing deals with other companies.
  • 2002 - US district court judge J. Frederick Motz orders Microsoft to include Sun Microsystems' Java runtime environment in Windows. Microsoft announces it will appeal the decision.
  • 2005 - IBM discontinues all OS/2 products.
Video Game history:

  • 1982 - Victor Ali scores a world record 80,364,995 on the Missile Command arcade game.
  • 1994 - The Street Fighter film opens in theaters in the US.

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