1973 – Skylab Launched
The United States launches Skylab One, its first manned space station. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket, and the largest payload ever launched into space at the time. Skylab will fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere in July 1979.
1984 – According to his Facebook profile Mark Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He would grow up to found Facebook.
1992 – Texas instruments Announces Its Own 486 Microprocessor Chip
Texas Instruments decided to take on the dominance of Inter announcing its own 486 microprocessor chip. Cyrix corp. designed the chip for TI, but it proved unsuccessful in weakening Intel’s dominance.
2011 – Sony Playstation Network Goes Back Online
Hackers took down the Sony PlayStation network on April 20th, 2011. Around 77 million accounts were compromised and gamers couldn’t play online for over a month. On May 14, Sony started bringing the services back online on a country-by-country basis. North America was the first, and people could sign-in, play PS3 and PSP games, access rented content, play music already was also available to update security for the users. When it was all said and done, Sony had lost $171 million on this.
The United States launches Skylab One, its first manned space station. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket, and the largest payload ever launched into space at the time. Skylab will fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere in July 1979.
Texas Instruments decided to take on the dominance of Inter announcing its own 486 microprocessor chip. Cyrix corp. designed the chip for TI, but it proved unsuccessful in weakening Intel’s dominance.
Hackers took down the Sony PlayStation network on April 20th, 2011. Around 77 million accounts were compromised and gamers couldn’t play online for over a month. On May 14, Sony started bringing the services back online on a country-by-country basis. North America was the first, and people could sign-in, play PS3 and PSP games, access rented content, play music already was also available to update security for the users. When it was all said and done, Sony had lost $171 million on this.
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