1860 – Telegraph lines opened between Los Angeles
and San Francisco. This allowed gold miners to tell backers father south that
they still hadn’t found any gold.
1921 – KDKA radio in Pittsburgh conducted the first
live broadcast of a football game from Forbes Field. The University of
Pittsburgh beat West Virginia University.
1992 – Finish Him!
The video
game Mortal Kombat is released into arcades. Now one of the most popular fighting
game series in history, the original Mortal Kombat became well-known for its
graphic display of blood and deadly finishing moves known as “fatalities”. As often
happens in situation like these, the controversy surrounding the game only
served to fuel its popularity.
1996 – Special US Stamp
Commemorates ENIAC
The US
Postal Service issued a special “Computer Technology” stamp to mark the 50th
anniversary of the ENIAC. In a ceremony at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground,
speakers paid tribute to computer pioneers with circuit board of a brain
partially covered by small blocks that contain parts of circuit boards and
binary language. The stamp was designed entirely on a computer. A Postal
Service news release from October 8 introduced the stamp with a discussion of
the ENIAC’s origins: “Long before PCs became standard office equipment and
surfing on the information superhighway became a national obsession,
calculations were done the ‘old-fashioned way’ by hand. And, as is often the
case, it took a war to bring the world into the computer age specifically, the
need for the United States Army to rapidly compute ballistic firing table.”
2003 – TO allow IT departments to prepare for
critical updates, Microsoft conducted the first regularly scheduled Windows
patch release. It became lovingly known as “Patch Tuesday”.
2011 – Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is
released.
2014 – The proposal for Time Warmer Cable and
Comcast merger is approved.
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