Amaya Toman The history of technology also includes the development of photography. In today's part of our series, we will remember one relatively important milestone, which was the first taking and sending a photo from a mobile phone. But we also remember Steve Ballmer's arrival at Microsoft and the release of Safari for Windows.
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Steve Ballmer is coming to Microsoft
On June 11, 1980, Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft as the thirtieth employee, and at the same time became the first business manager of the company to be hired by Bill Gates. The company offered Ballmer a salary of $50 and a 5-10% share. When Microsoft went public in 1981, Ballmer owned an 8% stake. Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in 2000, until then he led several different divisions in the company, from operations to the sales and support division, and for a while he also held the position of executive vice president. In 2014, Ballmer retired and also resigned from his position on the company's board of directors.
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The first photo "from the phone" (1997)
Many of the most amazing inventions in human history have come out of either convenience or boredom. On June 11, Philippe Kahn was bored on the premises of a maternity hospital in Northern California while waiting for the arrival of his daughter Sophie. Kahn was in the software business and liked to experiment with technology. In the maternity hospital, with the help of a digital camera, a mobile phone and a code he programmed on his laptop, he managed not only to take a photo of his newborn daughter, but also to send it to his friends and family in real time. In 2000, Sharp used Kahn's idea to produce the first commercially available phone with an integrated camera. It saw the light of day in Japan, but gradually photomobiles spread all over the world.
Apple releases Safari for Windows (2007)
At its WWDC conference in 2007, Apple introduced its Safari 3 web browser not only for Macs, but also for Windows computers. The company boasted that Safari would be the fastest browser for Win and promised up to twice the speed of loading web pages compared to Internet Explorer 7 and 1,6 times faster loading speed compared to Firefox version 2. Safari 3 browser brought news in the form of easy management bookmarks and tabs or perhaps a built-in RSS reader. Apple released the public beta on the day of the announcement.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- Compaq buys out Digital Equipment Corporation for $9 million (1998)
- The first generation iPhone officially entered the list of obsolete devices (2013)
