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The domain appeared before the company itself: at that time Google was still a research project called BackRub by two Stanford graduate students, and the name was coined as a…
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On September 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first commercial hard disk drive — the IBM 350 for the 305 RAMAC computer. It weighed over a ton and stored 5 million…
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On September 11, 1940, at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Dartmouth, George Stibitz demonstrated how computations could be sent over a telephone line to New York. This…
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On September 9, 1947, engineers working with the electromechanical Harvard Mark II computer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, encountered an unusual malfunction. The cause of the failure was a moth stuck between…
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On this day in 1888, Spanish engineer Isaac Peral first tested his submarine — an important step in the development of the submarine fleet.
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In 1997, Cyrix released the MediaGX—an x86 chip with integrated memory controller, video core, and Sound Blaster-compatible audio. The system required only two chips instead of the traditional set.
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On this day, Philo Farnsworth transmitted an image without mechanical disks for the first time — a simple line. He was 21 years old, and the US patent for television…
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