Today in Tech History – October 10

1964 – The opening ceremonies of the summer Olympics in Tokyo became the first Olympic broadcast relayed live by geostationary communication satellite. Too bad all the US networks gave up on live broadcasts of the Olympics.

1967 – The Outer Space Treaty came into force, banning nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from being placed in Earth orbit or on any other celestial body. It also prevented any state from claming sovereignty over any celestial resource like the Moon.

1980 – Pac-Man Fever Begins

             Midway releases the video game Pac-Man to arcades in North America. While the Japanese release under the name “Puck-Man” occurred in May of that year, the game’s popularity didn’t take off until being released in the United States. Pac-Man will become the first true mega-hit video game in history, sparking “Pac-Man Fever” and catapulting the video game industry into mainstream culture.

1994 – Hakon Wium Lie published “Cascading HTML style sheets – a proposal.” He proposed addressing the problem of existing style sheets being static, platform-specific and not allowing enough influence by the HTML author.

1995 – A Day in the Life of Cyberspace Published

           The Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chronicled the World Wide Web in its A Day in the Life of Cyberspace project. To celebrate its 10^th anniversary, the Media Lab invited submission for the days leading up to October 10, 1995, on a variety of issues related to technology and the Internet, including privacy, expression, age, wealth, faith, body, place, languages, and the environment. On October 10, a team at MIT collected, edited, and published the contributions to “create a mosaic of life at the dawn of the digital revolution that is transforming our planet.”

2002 – Keith Uncapher an American computer engineer and manager worked on several pioneer computer projects at RAND. As director of the computer science division at RAND, uncapher pioneered work on the technology of packet switching and helped develop the Internet. He also founded the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California, School of Engineering. Uncapher was passed away on this day at the age of 80.

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