Today is 17th, February, 09 and here’s what happened today in tech..

Chester Stone patented a washing machine on 17, February,  1827.

This day in 1959, the first weather satellite, vanguard 2 is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

JanSung Huang was born on 17th Feb on 1963; he is the founder of graphics processing company Nvidia.

On 17th of Feb, 2000 – Microsoft releases Windows 2000.

On 17th, Feb, 2004; Cingular wins the auction for AT&T Wireless by offering to pay $40.7 billion to become the United States’ largest wireless telephone company.