1948 – William Gibson was born in Conway,
South Carolina. His stories are credited with launching cyberpunk literature,
named after the phrase he used in the story “Burning Chrome”.
1953 – Australian researchers David Warren
came up with the idea for a device to record cockpit noise and instruments
during flight. His ARL Flight Memory Unit would eventually be known as the
Black Box.
1958 – The United States launched the
Vanguard 1 satellite, achieving the highest altitude of any man-made vehicle to
that time.
1988 – Apple Sues Microsoft,
HP over GUI
The
Graphical User Interface (GUI) is what we use daily to open up email, our web
browser and even those apps on your smartphone or tablet. With the first real
GUI came the first copyright infringement for it as Apple sued both Microsoft
and Hewlett-Packard for stealing features from Macintosh interface.
Hewlett Packard was also named for their New Wave desktop
environment. Missing from the suit is Microsoft Presentation Manager, which
became the interface for IBM’s OS/2.
The lawsuit got muddied when Xerox sued Apple for the same
thing. That instance got thrown out rather quick. But the original suit lasted
until 1994 when the court ruled: “Apple cannot get patent-like protection for
the idea of a graphical user interface or the idea of a desktop metaphor…”
Apple tried to take the case to the Supreme Court but was
denied.
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