Today in Geek History -November 12th No mister Bond I expect you to die I always wanted to say that ... did I mentioned I like LASERS :) I also have to mention Intel and the divide by zero .. wa to go GUYS !! 1666 The English physician Samuel Pepys makes a record in his diary describing the first documented blood transfusion. “Dr. Croone told me … there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dog let out, till he had died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own run out on the other side. The first died upon the place, and the other very well and likely to do well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop and such like; but, as Dr. Croon says, may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man’s health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body.” 1910 The first airplane takeoff from a warship.An airplane takes off from a ship for the first time, piloted by Eugene Burton Ely. The ship is the light cruiser USS Birmingham, and the event takes place off the coast of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Ely pilots the plane, a Curtiss pusher, to a nearby beach, where he lands after only just keeping the plane above sea level. Following the flight, Ely will be made a lieutenant in the California National Guard in order to qualify for a $500 prize that had been offered for the first reservist to make such a flight. On January 18, 1911, Ely will land his airplane aboard the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay, using the first ever tailhook system. 1967 Theodore Maiman is issued a patent for “Ruby Laser Systems,” which he had applied for on April 13, 1961. (US No. 3,353,115) 1969 NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon from Cape Canaveral. Lightning strikes the space vehicle twice, at 36.5 seconds and 52 seconds into the mission; however it suffers no discernible damage. The first strike is even visible to spectators at the launch site. Except for special attention given to verifying the spacecraft’s systems, its activities during earth-orbit checkout. Its translunar injection and translunar coast will both be similar to those of Apollo 10 and Apollo 11. 1971 Mariner 9Mariner 9 arrives at Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. 1991 Microsoft announces the Multimedia Edition of Works for Windows 2.0. It’s Microsoft’s first business application to incorporate multimedia. 1994 Atari and the Time Warner Cable Full Service Network (FSN) cooperatively announce an agreement to offer Atari Jaguar 64-bit interactive video games to FSN customers. Select video games will be digitally compressed and stored on magnetic hard drives to be “downloaded” by FSN consumers on demand. The Mosaic Communications Corporation becomes Netscape to avoid trademark conflicts with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where the initial Mosaic employees created the NCSA Mosaic web browser. While the Mosaic Netscape web browser is an evolutionary extension of NCSA Mosaic, it shares no code in common with its predecessor. 1995 Apple Computer, IBM, and Motorola release the specifications for the PowerPC Platform, called the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP). It encompasses support for AIX, Macintosh System 7, NetWare, OS/2, Solaris, and Windows NT. 1997 The Applied Materials Company, the leading worldwide supplier of semiconductor wafer processing systems and services, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with a private party at the San Jose Arena with entertainment provided by Bob Dylan and his son Jacob Dylan’s band, the Wallflowers. A second event is held at the University of Texas featuring performances by Margaret Cho and Stevie Wonder. Intel releases a software work-around for operating systems to avoid hanging when encountering the “F0″ bug. The bug affects Pentium processors with and without MMX. The official website of the Spice Girls is hacked by the hacking group “CodeZero”, “so1o,” and “BoMbJAcK & NightRage”. Version 4.04 of the Netscape Communicator Internet suite is released. Visit the application’s official website. 1998 The website of Warner’s Cartoon Network is hacked by “VHG”. View an archived version of the defaced website. 2000 Quepasa, a web community that has pioneered the Spanish language Internet, lays off thirty-eight people or about two-thirds of its work force. Visit the official Quepasa website. Version 6.0 of the Netscape Navigator Internet communications suite is released after two years of open source development. The suite includes Net2Phone, Netscape Composer, Netscape IM, Netscape Mail, Netscape Navigator, and RealPlayer 8. The suite is based on pre-released Mozilla code, and the software’s Mozilla core is unstable as a result. Though it will be widely criticized for being slow, ungainly, and unstable, that doesn’t come as a surprise thanks to forewarning from the programming community. Visit the software’s official website. 2002 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) releases the Athlon XP 2800+ processor, featuring a 333MHz front-side bus. Price: US$397 in 1,000-unit quantities Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) releases the Athlon XP 2700+ processor, with 333MHz front-side bus. Price: US$349 in 1,000-unit quantities Intel releases the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 processor, featuring a 133MHz system bus and hyper-threading technology. The processor is manufactured in a 0.13-micron process. Price: US$637 in 1,000-unit quantities Microsoft officially launches the Xbox Live online gaming service in the US and releases the Xbox Live Starter Kit, which includes a one-year subscription to Xbox Live, in the US. The service requires a broadband Internet connection. Price: US$49.99 2003 The asteroid 90377 Sedna is discovered by Michael Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz. It’s the most distant observed natural body in the solar system 2005 McDonald’s and Nintendo launch a free Wi-Fi service for Nintendo DS users in thousands of McDonald’s restaurants in the US. The service is provided by Wayport, and paid for by Nintendo. Version 9.4.3 of the Icon programming language is released. 2006 The Microsoft ZuneLite-On IT releases the world’s first DVD writers capable of burning discs at 20x speed, the LH-20A1P and the LH-20A1H, just three months after Sony began shipping the first 18x DVD burner, Microsoft releases its portable Zune media player, featuring a 30GB hard drive. The Zune is available in a variety of colors, including black, brown, and pearl white. US$249.99 2007 In New York City, Con Edison, one of the largest energy companies in the United States, shuts down the last direct-current electrical distribution system. 2008 India’s Chandrayaan-1 unmanned lunar probe successfully lands its Moon Impact Probe on the south pole of the Moon.
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