1884 – Geographers and astronomers adopted
Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, making it the International standard for zero
degrees longitude. Today the Greenwich observatory shoots a laser northwards at
night to indicate the meridian. It is not a dangerous laser.
1915 – Computer Pioneer Burks
Born
A principal
designer of the ENIAC, Arthur Burks, was born. Burks – who was born in Duluth,
Minnesota, and educated at DePauw University and the University of Michigan –
did extensive work on the ENIAC, the machine designed at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Moore School and completed in 1946. After working with J.
Presper Eckert and John Mauchly on the ENIAC, Burks moved on to Princeton
University, where he helped John Von Neumann develop his computer at the
Institute for Advanced Studies.
1983 – Cellular Goes Live in
US
Ameritech
Mobile Communications executive Bob Barnett makes a phone call from a car
parked near Soldier Field in Chicago, officially launching the first cellular
network in the United States.
1985 – The first observation of a
proton-antiproton collision was made by the Collider Detector at the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
1999 – Priceline Lawsuit on
Microsoft, Expedia
Priceline
field a lawsuit against Microsoft and its Expedia travel service. The suit
outlined how they violated U.S. patent number 5,794,207, “Method and Apparatus
for a Cryptographically Assisted Network System Designed to Facilitate
Buyer-Driven Conditional Purchase Offers.” The two sites come to terms in
2001,in where Microsoft pays a fine.
2000 – Tristan Louis suggested sound and
video tags be added to the 0.92 spec for RSS feeds. This led to enclosures
which allowed media files to be delivered through RSS and paved the way for
podcasting.
2016 – The PlayStation VR headset began
shipping.
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