Steve BallmerSteve Ballmer1980 – Otherwise known as “The 24th Man” (to join Microsoft, that is), Steve Ballmer came on as Microsoft’s first Business Manager. He made only $50k and stock options. Of course 30 years later, Steve succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of the Redmond based software company.

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First Cameraphone pictureFirst Cameraphone pictureSpeak and Spell debuts

  • Compaq purchases DEC for $9 million
  • The first cameraphone photo – Philippe Kahn taking a picture of his newborn daughter
  • Apple releases Safari for Windows
  • 1st generation iPhone gets put on the Obsolete list

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