Help Desk

Stop down, email us or send us your tweets about problems, suggestions or anything else regarding technology on campus.

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DelVal Residents Apogee is on campus today to help with WiFi issues and address concerns. @DelVal

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DelVal Resident Halls if you are having issues with the WiFi or TV Please contact https://t.co/OrKz6RpxFt, call 855-371-5066, or text ResNet to 84700.

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DelVal resident students WIFI need help go to https://t.co/ViZsvFOz8O or call 855-371-5066 #DelVal
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Update on the campus internet outage. Tech Services has learned that there is an off-campus fiber cut that is affecting both internet connections at DelVal along with other customers in the areas. No ETA but we know that the issue is being worked on.

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Tech Services has been able to confirm that both the internet providers' for offices, classrooms, and Residence Halls are experiencing outages. This is an off-campus issue. On-campus email works but you can not send or receive external email

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Reminder 6/18, Internet Outage: this will last 60 min between 12 am and 5 am (EST)There may be a disruption to our DelVal internet services for 60 min Which will affect academic buildings, offices, and resident hall lounge computers.

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6/18, Internet Outage: this will last 60 min between 12 am and 5 am (EST)There may be a disruption to our DelVal internet services for 60 min Which will affect academic buildings, offices, and resident hall lounge computers.

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1890: Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census, accomplishing the task in just three years and saving the government $5 million. He establishes a company that would ultimately become IBM.

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April 16, 1959"LISP" Language Unveiled The programming language that provided the basis for work in artificial intelligence, LISP, has its first public presentation. Created by John McCarthy, LISP offers programmers flexibility and it or its descendants are still used in the AI

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1936: Alan Turing developed an idea for a universal machine, which he would call the Turing machine, that would be able to compute anything that is computable. The concept of modern computers was based on his idea.

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1801: In France, weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard creates a loom that uses wooden punch cards to automate the design of woven fabrics. Early computers would use similar punch cards.

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If you are sending your Tax info - Encrypting email messages before they're sent means that even if a hacker or anyone other than the intended recipient should intercept your email messages, they're unreadable and essentially useless. https://t.co/2MOyUvXzCF #delval

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1972-The first video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey is demonstrated 5/24/72 and later released by Magnavox and sold for $100.00 USD. The compact disc is invented. Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game. Giant screen projection TV is first marketed.

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3/14/95 Bell Labs Announces TRADIC "Giant Brain"
AT&T Bell Lab announces the completion of the first fully transistorized computer, TRADIC. it contained nearly 800 transistors, which replaced the standard vacuum tube and allowed the machine to operate on fewer than 100 watts

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1977 – Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers. It was sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. The name is an abbreviation of Tandy/Radio Shack, Z-80 microprocessor.

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In 2005 – YouTube was launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video-sharing website in the world and the main source for viral videos.

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1953: Computer scientist Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which is eventually known as COBOL, that allowed a computer user to use English-like words instead of numbers to give the computer instructions.

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Technology that made the modern music business possible came into existence in the NJ laboratory where Thomas Edison created the first device to both record sound and play it back. He was awarded U.S. Patent No. 200,521 for his invention—the phonograph—on February 19, 1878.

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Don't send your W-2's unprotected use SecureMail: W-2. Protect your identity. https://t.co/2MOyUvXzCF #DelVal #delvalsecure

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February 12, 1877
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first long-distance telephone call between Boston and Salem, Massachusetts.