1896 – The first auto accident on record occurs in
New York City when a Duryea Motor Wagon driven by Henry Wells collides with a
bicycle ridden by Evylyn Thomas. New Yorkers probably accused Henry of being
from jersey, but he was actually from Massachusetts.
1966 – NASA launched Surveyor 1. It achieved the
first soft landing on the Moon by the United States and demonstrated the
technology necessary to achieve landing and operations on the lunar surface for
the manned missions to follow.
1979 – IRM was founded in Japan with the purpose of
selling electric applied game machines. Two years later they started a
subsidiary called Japan Capsule Computer. They eventually spun that division
off as Capcom.
1987 – Compact Disc Video (CD-V) Format
North American Philips
Company introduced the compact disc video format. Using the same technology as
LaserVision, the “CD’s with Pictures” would be gold in color and the same size
as an audio CD. They could hold up to 800 MB – which would allow for a full
length movie in SD, or a video music album. The CD-V didn’t last that long,
dissolving by 1991.
1996 – AT&T Announces Video Phone Call
System
AT&T
held a meeting to announce a system that would allow personal computers to make
and receive video phone calls over standard telephone lines. In years of
efforts by AT&T system made use of Intel’s Pentium processors and
compression software to allow both video and audio information to share a phone
line rather than a high-capacity ISDN, T-1, or T-3 line.
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