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1985: The nation’s first local, public packet-switching network opens for business. Can ISPs be far behind? Hooking in to the world’s network of interconnected computers isn’t a
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1985: The nation’s first local, public packet-switching network opens for business. Can ISPs be far behind? Hooking in to the world’s network of interconnected computers isn’t a
2000: The Nasdaq hits 5,048.62, the high-water mark of the dot-com boom. It’s all downhill from here. See also: 10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-com Boom and Bust The boom is more
1454: Amerigo Vespucci is born in Florence, Italy. He’ll give his name to two continents. Vespucci, the son of a notary, went to work for the Medici banking house. They dispatched him as an
1955: Computer pioneer Doug Ross demonstrates the Director tape for MIT’s Whirlwind machine. It’s a new idea: a permanent set of instructions on how the computer should operate. Six years
1904: Physicist Nikola Tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of “ball lightning.” Ball lightning (if it exists at all) is an electrical discharge, usually appearing in spherical
1966: The Soviet probe Venera 3 successfully lands on the surface of Venus. It’s the first time anything man-made makes contact with an extraterrestrial surface beyond the Moon. The Soviet
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1664: Thomas Newcomen, creator of the first practical atmospheric steam engine, is born in Devon, England. Newcomen’s exact birth date is a matter of debate. Some sources say “before
1987: Light from the brightest supernova of the 20th century reaches Earth from 168,000 light-years away. At the University of Toronto’s observatory in the foothills of the Andes mountains,
1857: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz is born. The physicist will make key discoveries about the transmission of electromagnetic waves and eventually give his name to a pervasive measurement of the
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