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The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
In 2018, curtailment in the California grid was 460 GWh, or 0.2% of generation. [13] Curtailment has since increased [7] [14] to 150-300 GWh/month in spring of 2020 and 2021, [15] [16] mainly solar power at noon as part of the duck curve. [17] In Hawaii, curtailment reached 20% on the island of Maui in Hawaii in the second and third quarters of ...
Qwant was created on May 25, 2011 [7] in Nice by investors Jean-Manuel Rozan, Éric Léandri, and Patrick Constant (via his company Pertimm, which developed other search engines for retail and other commercial services).
The motivating impulse for the Times to finally run the puzzle (which took over 20 years even though its publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, was a longtime crossword fan) appears to have been the bombing of Pearl Harbor; in a memo dated December 18, 1941, an editor conceded that the puzzle deserved space in the paper, considering what was ...
Australian Skeptics is a loose confederation of like-minded organisations across Australia that began in 1980. Australian Skeptics investigate paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using scientific methodologies. [1]
The concept of sending electronic text messages between parties, analogous to mailing letters or memos, predates the creation of the Internet. [89] [90] Pictures, documents, and other files are sent as email attachments. Email messages can be cc-ed to multiple email addresses.
A 20-acre patch of sand right in the middle of the most forested state in the U.S. Dixie Square Mall: A shopping mall that stood abandoned for over twice as long as it was in business until it was finally demolished in 2012. It was featured in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers and became a popular target for urban explorers. Donald J. Trump ...
Nonetheless, science and technology in England continued to develop rapidly in absolute terms. Furthermore, according to a Japanese research firm, over 40% of the world's inventions and discoveries were made in the UK, followed by France with 24% of the world's inventions and discoveries made in France and followed by the US with 20%. [1]