1926 – First Liquid-Fueled
Rocket Launched
Robert
Goddard became the first man to launch liquid-fueled rocket. The liquid oxygen
and gasoline mixture launched the 10 foot rocket, travelling at 60 MPH, to an
altitude of 41 feet.
The rocket was dubbed “Nell” and was launched in the cold
climate in Auburn Massachusetts.
The New York Times picked up on Goddard’s experiment, but
wasn’t kind to him. They denounced his work, ultimately swaying public opinion.
An unwavered Goddard put together a team and in 1930
continued his research. He made some great strides until 1945 when he passed
away.
His work and 214 patents gave way for scientists to continue
the research and eventually sent astronauts to the moon. On July 1969, The New
York Times retracted the 1926 article, giving him proper credit as the father
of modern rocketry.
Too bad he didn’t get to see it…
1990 – Internet Extends beyond
US to Europe
The
National Science Foundation announces it will extend its network with a
high-speed data link to Europe. Five years earlier, the Internet in its modern
form had started to develop rapidly thanks to the formation of the NSFNET,
which linked five supercomputer centers in the United States. Later in 1990,
Europe contributed to the growth of the Internet when CERN’s Tim Berners-Lee
developed HTML, the language used for the World Wide Web.
1995 – The First Wiki
The world’s
first Wiki, WikiWikiWeb was created as ward Cunningham invites people to add
and edit content. A Wiki is a database that can be a community collaboration.
Cunningham had said the inspiration for the name Wiki came from the Wiki Wiki
Shuttle bus he learned of during a trip to Hawaii. Six years later, Wikipedia
is launched, although Cunningham has no official involvement.
1999 – Sony released Everquest the Massively
multiplayer 3D world where you could play as a wizard, rogue of knight. It
followed two years after Ultima Online and would be followed several years
later by world of Warcraft.
1999 – Mac OS X Server 1.0, the
highly-anticipated precursor of OS X desktop version (code name Hera) was
released.
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