1925 – John Logie Baird
gave his first public demonstration of his ‘Silhouette Television’ at the
Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London. It was part of the store’s
birthday celebration.
1979 – The first fully
functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John. F.
Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its first launch.
1992 – Excel 4.0 Spreadsheet Software Released
Microsoft Corporation releases its Excel 4.0 spreadsheet program. Excel
was one in a long line of practical application that Microsoft and other
companies developed for personal computers, making them more appealing to home
office users. The earliest commercial computerized spreadsheet was VisiCalc,
written by Ed Frankston and Dan Bricklin and released for the Apple II personal
Computer in 1979.
1995 – Ward Cunningham
installed the First Wiki, WikiWikiWeb on a $300 computer someone gave him. He
connected it to the Internet, using a 14.4- baud dial-up modem.
1996 – Twister First Movie on DVD
The movie Twister becomes the first featured film put on DVD. FYI, it
sounds really good in surround sound!
2014 – Facebook announced
it would purchase Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset,
for $2 billion.
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