1971 – The Soviet Union’s Mars 2 orbiter
released its descent module which probably had too steep an angle of entry, and
malfunctioned and crashed. But hey, it was still the first manmade object to
reach the surface of Mars.
1995 – Microsoft Ships Internet
Explorer 2.0
Microsoft
Corp. shipped Internet Explorer 2.0, starting a browser war with the popular
Netscape Navigator. Netscape Communications Corp. had a virtual monopoly on
World Wide Web browsers since the infancy of the web. The Netscape Navigator
and Communicator browsers serve as a format for viewing and creating World Wide
Web pages, as well as participating in newsgroups and sending e-mail. Microsoft
promotes its Internet Explorer with specific mention of its privacy and encryption.
1998 – Sega Dreamcast Launched
in Japan
Sega
releases their next generation console – the Dreamcast – in Japan. It didn’t
get released in the US until Sept 9 1999, but it was one of the more successful
console launches of it’s time. The Dreamcast had 200 MHz processor with on-die
128-bit vector graphics engine. The
graphics hardware is a PowerVR2 CLX2 chipset, sound was a Yamaha AICA Sound
Processor and 16 MB 100 MHz RAM.
The Dreamcast was discontinued on Jan 31, 2001 as Sega
announced they were getting out of the console market.
2001 – Scientists announced they had used
the Hubble telescope to detect and analyze the atmosphere on an extrasolar
planet for the first time. The planet HD 209458 b, unofficially called Osiris
was found to have sodium in its atmosphere.
Comments
Post a Comment