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September 30 – Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds. Atari release a conversion of the hit arcade game Space Invaders for the Atari 2600 which popularises the home video game console.
While working on networking computers at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee begins to discuss the possibility of a hyperlinked information system with his colleagues, an idea he was allowed to implement in 1990 when he created the World Wide Web. Adobe Photoshop graphics editing software debuts, revolutionizing photography and the fashion industry. [4]
The birth of modern computing was in the 1970s. The world's first general microprocessor, the Intel 4004, came out in November 1971. The C programming language was developed early in the decade and the Unix operating system was rewritten into it in 1973.
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
The following dates are approximations. 700 BC: Pythagoras's theorem is discovered by Baudhayana in the Hindu Shulba Sutras in Upanishadic India. [18] However, Indian mathematics, especially North Indian mathematics, generally did not have a tradition of communicating proofs, and it is not fully certain that Baudhayana or Apastamba knew of a proof.
Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. Multiple discovery sometimes occurs when multiple research groups discover the same phenomenon at about the same time, and scientific priority is often disputed. The listings below include some of the most significant people and ideas by date of publication or experiment.
First telescopic discovery of planet . Great Britain: William Herschel: 1801 First discovery of asteroid . Sicily: Giuseppe Piazzi: 1813 First exposition of the rocket equation based on Newton's third law of motion: Treatise on the Motion of Rockets. UK: William Moore: 1840 First clear telescopic photograph of another world: the Moon. United States
January 7 – The Commodore 64 8-bit home computer is launched by Commodore International (released in August); it becomes the all-time best-selling single personal computer model. [8] January 30 – First computer virus, the Elk Cloner, written by 15-year-old Rich Skrenta, is found in the wild. [9] It infects Apple II computers via floppy disk.