1895 – First Public Projected Movie Screening
The world’s first projected movie
screening takes place at the Salon Indien at the Grand Café in Paris, France.
The makeshift theater uses the Cinematographe created by the Lumiere Brothers,
one of the earliest motion picture projectors in the history. Thirty-three
people attend at the admission price of one franc each to view 10 films at
about 50 seconds each. The first film, La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine
Lumiere, was created especially for the occasion. It shows workers leaving the
Lumieres’ factory in Lyon by Foot, by bicycle, and by car.
1903 – John von Neumann Born
John von Neumann is born in
Budapest, Hungry. His prodigious abilities were recognized in his early
childhood. He obtained a degree in chemical engineering while attending the
University of Berlin from- 1921 to 1923 and the Technishe Hochschule in Zurich
from 1923 to 1926. Well known for penning the seminal First Draft of a Report
on the EDVAC, von Neumann also developed the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
computer while at Princeton. The IAS computer and its “von Neumann
architecture.” First described in the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC,
served as the model for a number of computers built at governmental and
scientific institutions. Von Neumann architecture standardized the way programs
and data were stored in a computer’s common memory.
1995 – 200 Sites Blocked by Compuserve
Compuserve blocks access to over
2000 sites that have explicit content. They do it to avoid issue with the
German Government. The sites would be blocked until Feb 13, 1996 when all but 5
sites were restored.
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