1877 – Thomas Edison announced his invention
of the phonograph, a machine that could record and play sound.
1905 – The Annalen Der Physik published
Albert Einstein’s paper, entitled “Does the Inertia of Body Depend Upon Its
Energy Content?” The paper revealed the relationship between energy and mass.
You know the relationship as E=mc².
1969 – First ARPANET Link Put
Into Service
ARPANET
was an early computer network developed by J.C.R. Licklider, Robert Taylor and
other researchers for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA). It connected a computer at UCLA with a computer at the
Stanford Research Institute. Menlo Park, CA in 1973, the government
commissioned Vinton Cerf and Robert E. Kahn to create a national computer
network for military, governmental and institutional use. The network used
packet-switching, flow-control, and fault-tolerance techniques developed by
Arpanet. Historians consider this worldwide network to be the origin of the
Internet.
1992 – Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is
Released
Sega
releases the second game for its top franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, for the Sega
Genesis platform. Genesis was running second to the Super Nintendo
Entertainment System with its franchise creations such as Mario and Starfox.
Sonic would be the leading character for Sega platform throughout the 1990s,
and would eventually be licensed to other companies once Sega stopped producing
it’s own platforms with its Dreamcast system.
2008 – Justin.TV Online
Suicide of Abraham Biggs
Some
watched in horror. Others watched thinking it was a joke. Still, Abraham Biggs
was a troubled teen. He decided to end it all and do it in front of a live
audience. He got on Justin.tv and told people he was taking sleeping pills.
After a little while, he went to lie on his bed while the chat room continued
on. Some posts encouraging him to continue were seen. Of course, in the end
Abraham Biggs could not be saved.
Justin.tv closed its doors in August 2014.
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