1926 – BASIC Language Co-Inventor Born
BASIC co-developer John Kemeny was born in Budapest, Hungry. In his 66-year life, Kemeny had a significant impact on the history of computers, particularly during his years at Dartmouth college, where he worked with Thomas Kurtz to create BASIC, an easy-to-use programming language for his computer students. Kemeny earlier had worked with John von Neumann in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the Manhattan Project years of World War II.
1941 – Electric eye detectors were first used to measure high-jumping height. A track meet of the Schenectady, NY, Patrolmen’s Association used equipment designed by General Electric, comprising of a movable light source and four electric eyes.
1943 – Chief consultant John Mauchly and chief engineer John Presper Eckert began leading the military commission on the new computer ENIAC. They could take one year to design the computer and 18 months to build it.
1991 – All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Sega releases the video game Zero Wing for the Sega Mega Drive system in Europe. The game was never released in North America, and was relatively unknown until years later when the poorly translated opening scene was popularized on the internet. The most famous mistranslation is the phrase “All your base are belong to us,” which has become a very popular internet meme.
2006 – Pirate Bay Raided, Swedish Political Party Increased
Swedish police raid the host of the Pirate Bay Bit torrent. On the same day, the Pirate Bay political party increased their numbers by 500, with an additional 930 joining the following day. The site stayed down for 3 days, but came back to double the traffic due to the media coverage.
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Sega releases the video game Zero Wing for the Sega Mega Drive system in Europe. The game was never released in North America, and was relatively unknown until years later when the poorly translated opening scene was popularized on the internet. The most famous mistranslation is the phrase “All your base are belong to us,” which has become a very popular internet meme.
2006 – Pirate Bay Raided, Swedish Political Party Increased
Swedish police raid the host of the Pirate Bay Bit torrent. On the same day, the Pirate Bay political party increased their numbers by 500, with an additional 930 joining the following day. The site stayed down for 3 days, but came back to double the traffic due to the media coverage.
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