A new way to listen to music is unveiled, a tech mogul steps down and a device that changed the way we communicate was introduced… It all happened This Week in Tech History.
This week in 1949 – The Radio Corporation of America, sometimes known as RCA, announced a new 7-inch, 45-rpm phonograph record. Soon, the 45, the record with the big hole in the middle, would change the pop music business.
2000 – Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced that he would be stepping down as Microsoft chief executive and handing over the reins to longtime friend and company president Steve Ballmer. Gates assumed the title of ‘chief software architect’.
2001 – Wikipedia, the multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project, was launched by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales.
And this week in 2007 – Apple chairman Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The 4GB version of what became the 2007 invention of the year went on sale in June for $499.