1959 – The first atomic reactor built in the
US for medical research, achieved criticality at Brookhaven National
Laboratories in Upton, NY.
1975 – First Newsletter of the
Homebrew Computer Club
Issue
number one of the Homebrew Computer Club’s newsletter is published. Only 21
issues are published through December 1977, but the newsletter is considered
influential in the early culture of the personal computer industry.
1985 – First Internet Domain
Registered
The first
Internet domain symbolic.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts
computer company.
1989 – Amiga Plus Magazine
Antic
Software publishes the first issue of Amiga Plus Magazine. It was the April/May
edition and included an AMIGA Plus disk, which included the graphic program
created. Articles included everything from creating graphics, to your 1998
Federal Income Tax, Lattice C++ review to a Tetris review and more.
Nat Friedland was the Editor and Arnie Cachelin the
assistant editor. The Magazine had a short life – closing its doors in 1991.
1994 – Aldus Corporation and
Adobe System Inc. Merge
Aldus
Corporation and Adobe Systems Inc. announce they will merge. Aldus
revolutionized publishing (DTP) when founder Paul Brainerd released the
PageMaker program in 1985. Computer scientists John Warnock and Charles Geschke
applied knowledge learned in their graduate work to similar products and
founded adobe in 1992.
2004 – Nicolas Jacobsen posted to a forum
that he had hacked into T-Mobile’s network and stolen information from major
celebrities like Paris Hilton. Jacobsen was later charged with two counts of
violating the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
2016 – DeepMind’s AlphaGo Al program defeated
18-time Go champion Lee Se-dol in the 5th match of a five-match
series for a series win of four matches to one. Lee won only the fourth game.
The Korea Baduk Association gave an honorary ninth-dan ranking to AlphaGo.
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