In 1953 – Dudley Buck entered the idea for the Cryotron into his MIT notebook. The cryotron is a four-terminal superconductive computer component.
In 1965 – Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieved the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
1994 – Netscape shipped version 1.0 of the Netscape Navigator Web browser.
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English to conquer the Internet? US torpedoes World Telecom treaty, Aereo gets a cable channel, and more.
Guests: Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse
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We bend space and time to have Paul Cornell, all-around geek writer
extraordinaire, join us to talk London Falling, how he bridged the
Marvel-DC divide, and the next step in his plans for world domination.
More about our guest, Paul Cornell:
On the Web: www.paulcornell.com/
On Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/63341.Paul_Cornell
On Twitter: twitter.com/Paul_Cornell
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaulCornellOfficial
On Pintrest: http://pinterest.com/paulcornell/
More on Paul’s Works:
London Falling: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16094514-london-falling
Saucer Country: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13536521-saucer-country-vol-1
Marvel & DC Comics by Paul:
Superman: The Black Ring:http://www.goodreads.com/series/62210-the-black-
ring
Young Avengers: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6883138-dark-reign
Batman: Knight & Squire: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10241986-batman
Demon Knights: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13228422-demon-knights-vol-1
Paul’s Doctor Who work:
Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures: http://www.goodreads.com/series/40456-virgin-new-adventures
Bernice Summerfield Audio Dramas: http://www.goodreads.com/series/41407-bernice-summerfield-audio-drama
Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Dramas: http://www.goodreads.com/series/53351-big-finish-doctor-who-audio-dramas
“Blueprint for World Domination” by Aaron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlC7saNwYgI
In 1900 – German physicist Max Planck published his theory that radiant energy is made up of particle-like components, known as “quantum.” And quantum physics was born.
In 1972 – Eugene Cernan ended a 7 hour and 15 minute EVA, climbed back aboard the Apollo 17 Lunar Module and became the last person to walk on the moon.
In 1996 – John Tu and David Sun, the founders of Kingston Technology took $100 million from the sale of their privately held enterprise and gave it to employees — a spontaneous gesture to those who had helped make the memory-module company a market leader.
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Google Maps returns to the iPhone, RIM gets a second chance, Dropbox gets in the music biz, and more.
Guest: Christopher Null
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In 1962 – NASA “Relay 1” launched, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
In 1977 – Young Bill Gates was arrested for traffic violation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, leading to one of the most famous mugshots ever.
In 1977 – Robert Metcalfe et. al were awarded a patent for “Multipoint data communication system with collision detection” AKA ethernet.
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Who’s winning the Phone Wars? Apple TV rumor of the day, Free Internet in your house, and more.
Guest: Molly Wood
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The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King’s Dead Zone (in USA) was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as “based on characters” from Stephen King’s 1979 novel of the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced by Lionsgate Television and CBS Paramount Network Television (Paramount Network Television 2002-05) for the USA Network.
In 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi amazed a group at Toynbee Hall in East London with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Every time Marconi hit a key a bell would ring from a box across the room being carried by William Henry Preece.
In 1973 – Founder of LinkExchange, CEO of Zappos, and promoter of customer-centric business, Tony Hsieh was born.
In 1980 – Apple’s stock was initially offered for sale. Regulators in Massachusetts prohibited individual investors in the state from buying the stock, as it was deemed too risky.
In 1991 – Paul Kunz sets up the first website in North America. It searched particle physics literature at Stanford.
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