June 13, 2014: Honey Moon, 1993: Interactive Television from Microsoft




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Summary: 2014 - Watch the sky tonight as you will see not only a full moon, but what is called the "Honey Moon". What is so special about this moon - it will be the last full moon on a Friday the 13th until 2049. 1993 - Microsoft teamed up with Tele-communications and Time Warner to start the revolution known as "Interactive TV". The ability to buy product right through the set during a show. iTV would give users a Digital Set Top Box in which they would use to browse, go back and watch video. It even connected to a telephone to let you know who is calling and possibly get SMS messages. Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for June 11 1983 - Pioneer Crossed Neptune 1986 - Activision finalizes the merger with Infocom 2003 - 2.4.21 of LINUX kernal released 2003 - IE for Mac is shut down 2005 - Fedora Core 4 is released 2006 - Vincent Ferrari tries to cancel his AOL account, but the agent wouldn't 2007 - Jeffrey Goodin is the first to be sentenced because of the CAN-SPAM act. He was posing as an AOL billing agent