1741 – IN Uppsala Sweden, Anders
Celsius first used a Delisle thermometer he had marked up with 100 gradations
between boiling and freezing. It was the first use of the centigrade scale of
temperature.
1959 – Sony announced its first
television set, the transistor-based TV-301. It would go on sale in Japan the
following May.
1987 – A Virus on Christmas?
The Christmas virus begins to
effect IBM mainframe computers around the world. Technically defined as a worm,
the Christmas virus drew a Christmas tree text graphics on the victim’s monitor
and searched out other network users. Named CHRISTMA EXEC because IBM systems
only supported eight-character filenames, it was the world’s first widely disruptive
computer worm.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee with help from
CERN computer scientist Robert Cailliau and others – set up the first
successful communication between a Web browser and server via the Internet.
1998 – Official Y2K Compliance
During the last couple years of
the 20th century, the race was on to fix an oversight in multiple
computer systems. The problem was dubbed “Y2K” or the Millennium bug. Bottom
line was that all computers worked on a 2 digit year system instead of 4.
Because of this, once the clock rolled, computers would think it’s 1900 instead
of 2000 and bigger issues would happen. For instance, if you were born in 1968,
then you would be -68years old in a computer calculating.
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