1928 – Enigma Machine Encodes First Message
The ENIGMA machine encodes its first message. A simple
German machine the size of a portable typewriter, ENIGMA allowed for security
in communications by a process in which typed letter were replaced by a cipher
text displayed on illuminated lamps. The cipher was symmetrical so entering the
cipher text into another ENIGMA reproduced the original message. Security was
provided by a set of rotor wheels and a series of patch cables whose arrangement
was agreed upon previously.
ENIGMA was used extensively by the German military during World War II to transmit battle plans and other secret information. By December of 1941, however, British codebreakers managed to decipher the code, allowing them to routinely read most ENIGMA traffic.
1983 – Nintendo Releases Famicom
Nintendo releases their Famicom system, short for “Family Computer,” in Japan. The Famicom would be slightly modified with a copy protection system, a redesigned chassis, a front loading cartridge mechanism, and released in North America just over two years later as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The Famicom/NES would become one of the most influential game systems ever produced, making Nintendo the premier company in the video game industry during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, picking up the mantle where Atari left off.
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbanded the Netscape browser development team. In conjunction, Mozilla created the Mozilla Foundation giving the project its first independent legal existence.
2006 – Twitter Launches
Noah lass Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, and Evan Williams
launch this 140 character “what are you doing” social network. The group first
started production in March of 2006, but it is launched on the 15th.
Currently, over 200 million users are on Twitter.
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