1896 – Samuel Pierpoint Langley’s Aerodrome No. 5 made the first successful
flight of an unpiloted, engine-driven, heavier-than-air craft of substantial
size.
1949 – British Computer EDSAC
Performs First Calculation
The EDSAC
performed its first calculation. Maurice Wilkes had assembled the machine – the
first practical stored-program computer – at Cambridge University (an earlier
machine at the University of Manchester was too small for practical purposes).
His ideas grew out of the Moore School lectures he had attended three years
earlier at the University of Pennsylvania. For programming the EDSAC, Wilkes
established a library of short programs called subroutines stored on punched
paper tapes. It performed 714 operations per second.
1998 – “i” is for Apple
At the
Flint Center Theater, the same place where the Mac was first unveiled in 1984,
Steve Jobs introduces the original iMac. This iMac was later known as the
“Bondi Blue”, after the color of its case (named for a beach in Australia).
According to Jobs, the iMac is “the Internet-age computer for the rest of us.”
Originally slated to be available in ninety days, it will actually be released
on August 15th. Apple will book an unprecedented 150,000 orders
before its release, marking the beginning of Apple’s renaissance. It also
ushered in the era of Apple adding the letter “I” to just about every product
it created. But hey, Apple has about $80 billion over $137 billion in cash
right now, so who’s arguing?
2003 – Eve Online launched. The massively
multiplayer space adventure differed from others in that its storylines were
created mostly by the players of the game.
2004 – Paint.Net Graphics
Editor
A free
raster graphics editor, Paint.NET was created and released by Rick Brewster as
a school project at Washington State University. The software was released
under the MIT License and was at first Open Source. After multiple cases of
plagiarism, the software moved to Creative Common, then in version 3.36 was
turned to closed-source (but still free).
The latest version of Paint.Net 4.0 uses NET framework
4.5.1.
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