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July 26, 2012: Google Fiber Launched,2000: Napster Injunction Issued
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2012 – Google ran a contest for people to tell them why they should have fiber installed in their city. After millions of entries and a lot of interesting videos trying to convince the judges, Google decided that Kansas City KS would be the first fiber city. On this same day, Google also showed off Fiber TV service.
2000 – The Recording Industry Association of America was after Napster ever since the site came on-line. It was the promotion of illegally searching and downloading music and sometimes video. in 2000, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued a preliminary injunction against Napster, ordering the company to cease operation by July 28th.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would stay the injunction and raise questions to judge Patel and the injunction.
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- Cyrix and Texas Instruments part ways
- The auction of Quokka.com assets
- The Google – Digg acquisition talks were reported to have fallen through.
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July 26, 2012: Google Fiber Launched,2000: Napster Injunction Issued
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2012 – Google ran a contest for people to tell them why they should have fiber installed in their city. After millions of entries and a lot of interesting videos trying to convince the judges, Google decided that Kansas City KS would be the first fiber city. On this […]
July 25, 2005: Violent Video Games Bill Goes into Law
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More The sale of Video Games began to really heat up in 2005 as Illinois Governer Rod Blagojevich signs a bill into law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors. You could be fined up to $1,000 for selling games with adult ratings. Immediately, video game groups sued, claiming […]
July 24, 2013: Chromecast TV Dongle Debuted
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2013: Google put on a “Secret Town Hall” meeting. Nobody knew what was going on, although some speculated it had to do with the TV. In their major announcement, Google introduced Chromecast – the HDMI-based set top box that was small enough to plug into the TV and not see […]
July 23, 1886: First Car Ever,1903: First Model A Seventeen Years Later
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More Back in 1886, Gottlieb Daimler gets into his new invention. It looks like a horse-drawn buggy, but it has a one cylinder 1.1 HP engine mounted in the back seat. The first car got up to 16 km/hSeventeen years later, in 1903, Ford Motor company sells it’s first car. […]
July 22, 1988: Arrests of Fry Guy, Atlanta Three, Legion of Doom
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More The Secret Service made some major breakthroughs in Hacking circles in 1989 as three members of the Legion of Doom were arrested. They were charged with hacking into Bell South’s Telephone Networks in 1988. Franklin Darden, Adam grant and Robert Riggs would be sentenced to time in Federal prison. […]
July 21, 1925: John Scopes Guilty on Teaching Evolution
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More John Scopes was an activist and a teacher. In what was called the “Scopes Monkey Trial“, John was charged on May 5th, 1925 of teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom. On July 21 he was found guilty and fined $100. The central argument in the case was the Butler […]
July 20 1999: Y2K Act Gives Government Protection
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More 2012 – At the premier of the Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO. James Eagan Holmes opened fire in one of the theaters. Holmes killed 20 people and injured many. He is currently being evaluated for insanity with a court date of Feb 13, 2014. In a step to […]
July 19, 2000: Apple PowerMac G4 Cube
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More Apple released a series of new items in 2000, including a new “button less” mouse, iMovie2 and the iMac DV series with the PowerPC G3 processor. But they also introduced the PowerMac G4 Cube – a 450 or 500 MHz computer with Velocity Engine – A Single Instruction Multiple […]
July 18, 1968: Intel Incorporates
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More Hungarian immigrant Andy Grove, along with Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel in 1968, as Integrated Electronics Corporation. Intel was actually the trademark of a hotel – They ended up buying out the name. The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger’s last movie, hits theaters Video of Titanic’s remains were released US DOC […]
July 17, 1955: First Town Run on Nuclear Power
Subscribe! Spotify | RSS | More During a one-hour test in 1955, Arco, Idaho became the first town to be fully electrically run on nuclear power. The small community was powered by the National Reactor Testing Station” (NRTS). NTRS later became the Idaho National Laboratory.
