1948 – The University of California at
Berkeley and the Atomic Energy Commission announced the artificial production
of mesons using the 184-inch cyclotron at the university’s Radiation
Laboratories.
1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launched,
carrying a human dummy and the dog Chernushka. It completed 1 orbit and was
successfully recovered upon return. Yes, the dog made it back unharmed.
1993 – PowerOpen Association
Formed
Apple
Computer Inc., Motorola Inc., IBM Corp. and four other computer companies from
the PowerOpen Association Inc., intended to promote new computer chip
technology in preparation for the release of the next generation of personal
computers. The association also tested conformance to the PowerOpen
environment, which led to computers such as Apple’s PowerPC.
1999 – I Invented the Internet
United
States Vice President Al Gore gives an interview on CNN’s Late Edition in which
he states, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a
whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s
economic growth and environment protection, improvements in our educational
system.” This is the infamous statement which will be widely misquoted as “I
invented the internet.”
2008 – The Zuckerberg, Lacy
Incident
SXSW
Interactive keynote, Mark Zuckerberg was being interviewed by journalist Sarah
Lacy. There was a lot of anticipation for the event, but things went south
quickly (no pun intended). During the interview, Lacy starts talking about
these books Zuckerberg writes into but never formally asked him about it. She
gets a little befuddled because Mark was not picking up the bell.
She verbally notes the stall, which Zuckerberg replies “You
have to ask a question.” That bought the audience into the conversation with a
standing ovation. Trying to continue, lacy finally made a question out of this
story with Mark giving a 2 minute answer and not divulging that he “burned
those books”.
Lacy then went to the audience for affirmation of the book
burning. However, she instead got the comment “Talk about something
interesting!”
Sarah responded with “Try to do what I do for a living. It’s
not as easy as it looks…” That brought the audience into the conversation.
After that, people took to Twitter, wondering why Lacy
wasn’t asking questions.
Finally, they ended the keynote with Lacy saying “I’m sorry
to torture you for an hour.” The comment was not well-received.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery on Mission
STS-133 made its final landing after 39 flights.
2015 – Apple and HBO announced a new
Internet-only streaming version of HBO called HBO Now would launch in early
April exclusively on Apple products including the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.
Apple also announced the Apple Watch would come April 24.
2016 – IN the first of 5 games, DeepMind’s
AlphaGo machine intelligence defeated 18-time Go champion Lee See-dol in Seoul,
Korea.
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