It happened at Free and in telecoms: the Freebox takes care of your guests, live is taking its first steps...

As every week, we offer you our column "It happened at Free and in the telecoms..." This one invites you to dive back into the events that made the news of the week in course, but during the previous years, decades, even centuries. These events will concern Free of course, but more broadly telecoms and digital. Memories memories …

January 24, 1984: The first Macintosh

Apple's legendary computer hit the market 38 years ago. The “Big Blue” was then presented as a device that could revolutionize the market, the quality of which was even recognized by Bill Gates at the time. If since then, Apple has become synonymous with economic superpower, on January 24, 1984, it was still a David against Goliath fight that presented itself for the Cupertino company.

In terms of design, Apple has come a long way… But Hello to you too, a little revolution in a box!

January 26, 1926: First public live broadcast of television

“It’s a live! “, it is now 96 years since the first broadcast of a television program was made. It was a London session dedicated to the members of the Royal Institution, on January 26, 1926. The screen thus broadcast a retransmission in the form of an image in 30 lines, on which the silhouette of a character could be discerned. located in the adjoining room. This is the birth of television, although there is still a long way to go before we get to our hundreds of live channels.

Here Scottish inventor John Logie Baird posing next to his invention.

January 28, 2015: Free finally unveils a complete map of its interactive terminals

We tend to forget it, but to find a terminal where you can subscribe to Free Mobile, you had to know his addresses well! Until January 28, 2015, the latter could only be found on platforms published by the various distributors, without a card being set up at Free. This is good, the operator has since corrected the situation and today launched its new official card, taking up almost all of the 898 terminals deployed at the time. It has since been merged with that of the operator's shops.

January 28, 2015: launch of the Bbox Miami

A well-known Bbox in France is celebrating its birthday this week: the Miami. Presented in December 2014, this first “new generation” box, integrating the Android TV operating service, was finally available for Bouygues Telecom subscribers wishing to migrate.

The decoder therefore stood out, not only with access to Android applications, but also with its Bluetooth connectivity, its small size, its native compatibility with Chromecast... A novelty that arrived just before Free's first Android box : the mini 4K.

January 29, 2018: Free launches a very practical feature

A new function that has been directly integrated into the Freebox Pop server: a QR code to easily connect to WiFi. On January 29, 2018, Xavier Niel's operator launched a new update to its mini 4K and Revolution servers allowing you to create "guest" access, directly from its Freebox OS interface or from the Freebox Compagnon application. The principle was very simple and has not changed since: create a simple connection code to scan with your smartphone, with the possibility of limiting the duration during which the device will have access to your network.

All you had to do was display it on your smartphone, on your computer or even print this QR Code on a sheet of paper to distribute it to the guests who needed it. It is now possible to create one easily from your Freebox Connect application.