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World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
Today is World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD). Its purpose “is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well … Continue reading
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AIEE (IEEE) Established
Today in 1884, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) was established in New York.
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Earliest Surviving Dated Printed Book
Today in 868, The Diamond Sutra was published in China. The copy in the British Library is “the world’s earliest complete survival of a dated printed book.”
50 years of TV’s “Vast Wasteland”
“When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.
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Measurement Milestone
Today in 1790, the French National Assembly passes two decrees: One asked the French Academy of Sciences to determine “the scale of division most suitable for weights and measures and for coins;” the other instructed the French Academy to work with the … Continue reading
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Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation Established
Sixty-five years ago today, on May 7, 1946, more than twenty members of the Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute, founded by Masaru Ibuka in the previous year, attended the inauguration ceremony which officially established the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation.
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Computer Programming Born
Today in 1949, the Electronic Delayed Storage Automatic Computer (EDSAC), the first practical stored-program computer, ran its first program and performed its first calculation.
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Today in 1536, Florentine merchant Francesco Lapi used the @ sign for the first time in recorded history.
First Spam
Today in 1978, the first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail was sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketing representative of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to all 393 users of ARPANET on the west coast of the United States. The e-mail is an invitation to a demonstration of … Continue reading
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Four Centuries of Publishing Success
Today in 1611, the The King James, or Authorised, Version of the Bible was published.
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