1945 –
The United States detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the
Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. The Trinity test ushered in
the atomic age.
1951 – VisiCalc Creator Born
VisiCalc
creator Dan Bricklin was born in Philadelphia. Bricklin moved from hometown to
Boston to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and study computer
science.
The background proved useful during a later turn at Harvard
Business School, where Bricklin teamed with Robert Frankston to design the
first business spreadsheet program. The result, in 1979, was a visible
calculator that automated the recalculation of spreadsheets.
Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts Inc. and sold their
program to Apple Computer and other companies, selling 100,000 copies in the
first year.
1969 – Apollo 11 Heads
for the Moon
Apollo
11 is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on the way to becoming the first
space mission to land men on the Moon.
1995 – Amazon Goes Online
That
was the first book Amazon sold on July 16th, 1995. The company ran
from their garage in Bellevue, Washington. 3 SPARC machines was all they had
and a cool little mechanism that runs a bell every time a book was sold. The
business model was set to make profit in 5 years. It was a good thing, because
that may have helped it survive the dot com bubble. 17 years later, Amazon is
going strong. Purchases of companies like WOOT! And Zappos!, along with the
introduction of Kindle e-reader and Amazon Prime, the company is one of the
largest resellers of product on the web.
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