Seymour Cray is born. Cray began
his engineering career building cryptographic machinery for the US government
and went on to co-found Control Data Corporation (CDC) in the late 1950s. For
over three decades, first with CDC then
with his own companies, Cray consistently built the fastest computers in the
world, leading the industry with innovative architectures and packaging and
allowing the solution of hundreds of difficult scientific, engineering, and
military problems. Cray died in an automobile accident in 1996.
1997 – Apple Asks Us to Think
Different
Just a little over two weeks after
naming Steve Jobs interim CEO, Apple launches their “Think Different” ad
campaign. Designed to reintroduce the Apple brand, the campaign was nearly
universally praised by the press, general public and advertising industry,
winning several awards along the way. Looking back in context, Think Different
was the symbolic start of Apple’s resurgence from near-collapse in the 1990’s
into the most valuable company in the world.
The campaign was anchored
on the now-famous prose commonly called, “Crazy Ones”, which was narrated by
Richard Dreyfus in the commercial most people are familiar with. It is commonly
thought that Steve Jobs wrote CrazyOnes, but in fact it was written by Rob
Siltanen and Ken Segall who worked at Apple’s advertising agency.
1998 – Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer passed Netscape Navigator as the Web browser with the
greatest market share, according to a report from the International Data
Corporation.
2008 – SpaceX
launched the Falcon 1, the first ever private spacecraft to enter orbit.
2008 – British Secret
Service admitted they have been looking for the next agents. They mention that
they have been looking far and wide for spies. That is why they went to
Facebook. MI6 placed 3 ads on Facebook to look for people seeking career changeability
to shake a good martini is preferred.
2011 – Amazon Kindle Fire
Debut
Jeff Bezos announces a new line
of Kindle products including the Kindle Fire. This 10 inch tablet was Amazon’s
rival to the iPad. It ran a version of Android that connected with Amazon
store. The fire would cost $199 and came with 30 days of Amazon Prime.
2015 – NASA announced
definitive signs of liquid water on Mars had been found near the equator. Dr.
Alfred S. McEwen and other scientists published a paper in the journal Nature
Geoscience, describing the direct identification of water in the form of
hydration salt.
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