1882 – Ernst Werner von Siemens presented his “trackless trolley” called the “Elektromote” in a Berlin suburb. This system pulled electricity from overhead wires, but used road wheels instead of tracks.
1953 – KECA-TV, an ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, California, broadcast the first US experimental 3D-TV. An episode of Space Patrol required specially polarized glasses to watch.
1928 – Laszlo Belady Born
Laszlo Belady, creator of the Belady algorithm (used in optimizing the performance of computers), is born. Belady worked at IBM for 23 years in software engineering before joining the Mitsubishi Electronics Research laboratory in the mid-1980s. He wins numerous awards, including the J.D. Warnier Prize for Excellence in Information and an IEEE fellowship.
2004 – Google Filed for IPO
Google files the S-1 form with SEC for their IPO. They said they wanted to raise US$2,718,281,828; a Mathematical algorithm based on the day they filed. The form can be found at SEC.gov.
The stock finally started trading on August 19, 2004 at $85 a share in a unique online auction.
2004 – Sprechen Sie Sassy?
The Sasser worm is released into the wild, infecting over 1 million Windows computers worldwide. Looks like 1 million PC users stepped into a big pile of sassy!
2005 – Apple released Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, introducing spotlight search and dashboard functionality.
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