1904 – The first underground New York City
subway line opened. The line ran from City Hall in lower Manhattan through
Grand Central, Times Square and ended north in Harlem. Rides cost five cents.
1980 – First Major ARPANET
Outage
The
ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet, stops functioning for about four
hours after the network’s routing tables are corrupted by a malfunctioning
Interface Message Processor (IMP).
1994 – HotWired launched bringing with it
the first large quantity sales of banner ads. AT&T, Zima, MCI, Volvo, Club
Med and 1-800-COLLECT all plunked down for the privilege.
1999 – Dell PC Sales Were #1
Dataquest, a company that monitors PC sales, has shown a trend that Dell
had maintained a 5% lead over Apple for 2 consecutive quarters. Therefore, Dell
had become #1 in computer sales for 1999. Of course, a recent report mentioned
that Apple could now buy Del if it so inclined.
2005 – The Europe Space Agency launched its
first satellite, a micro-satellite called the SSETI Express Satellite, designed
and built by European students.
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