1990 – Peter Deutsch posted to comp.archives about the Internet Archive Server called “Archie” that he, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan had put together. It is often considered the Internet’s first search engine.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.archives/LWVA50W8BKk/wyRbF_lDc6cJ
1991 – Paul Lindner posted to comp.unix.misc introducing “The Internet Gopher” a distributed information service. Before the World Wide Web, Gopher was the primary way to find and share documents online.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.unix.misc/-CGG1XLkjfk
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, powered up on its quest to discover the secrets of particle physics, especially evidence of the Higgs Boson.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/news.2008.1098.html
2013 – Apple announced two new phones, the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner, and the iPhone 5C a cheaper and colored version of the iPhone 5.
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