The New
York Times sends a telegram message to test how fast a commercial message could
be sent around the world. Reading simply, “This message sent around the world”,
it left at 7 PM, traveled over 28,000 miles and was relayed by 16 different
operators. It arrived back at The Times only 16.5 minutes later. The building
where the message originated is now called One Times Square and is best known
for where the ball drops on New Year’s Eve.
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK,
began operating in Michigan. Now, WWJ, it is owned by CBS.
1930 – W2XCR began broadcasting at 2.1-2.2 mHz from
Jersey City, New Jersey, with the first demonstration of telecasts meant for
the home. A half-hour program, hosted by the cartoonist Harry Hirschfeld, was
Hearst building, and a home at 98 Riverside Drive.
1970 – John Carmack was born in Shawnee Mission,
Kansas. He would grow up to co-found id software and bring the world Doom, Wolfenstein
and Quake.
1995 – NY Times Article on
Need to Preserve Obsolete Hardware and Software
The New
York Times’ George Johnson reminisces about obsolete computer hardware and
software in a column titled, “Let’s Boot Up the Trash-80 and Play Some Oldies.
”Written just before the release of Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system,
the article bemoaned the lack of home – virtual or otherwise – for computer
antiques. The fate of Windows 3.1 was obvious: “In digital bonfires across the
country, millions of copies of the old software will be wiped from hard disks
to make way for the new. One by one, all those carefully crafted bits – the 1’s
and 0’s that form the gears and pulleys of Microsoft’s contraption – will
disappear in infinitesimal puffs of heat.”
Software, however, is preserved by many individual
collectors and computer enthusiasts and by The Computer enthusiasts and by the
Computer History Museum.
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2008 – Apple’s iPhone 3G Antenna Issue
When the
3G iPhone released, some people started complaining about the connection. Apple
wasn’t saying anything. An independent company stated that the “Infineon” chip
that helped control 3G was to blame for the issue. It was suspected that a
software update would fix the problem. However the 2.0.2 software update didn’t
really help with the connection problem. Add to it the fact that a woman was
suing Apple over the 3G network being slower than advertised. Steve Jobs
finally put out a letter stating that by 2.1 the issue will be resolved.
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