I just started a thread regarding National Bat Appreciation day. Long live the Bat: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1563780-today-is-national-bat-appreciation-day
2005 – First video uploaded to YouTube
The first video uploaded to YouTube, an 18-second clip of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo, has now been viewed more than 30 million times. Today YouTube Opens a new window is the third most popular destination on the Web, behind Google and Facebook.
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1994 – WebCrawler becomes the first full-text web search engine
In its very early days, the Web had no table of contents, no index, and no way to know what resources were available. University of Washington student Brian Pinkerton began coding WebCrawler as a desktop application, then made it a website that indexed pages from more than 4,000 other sites Opens a new window. It was the first web search engine that let users look for any word on any page. Word got around Opens a new window, and the site got busy, serving more than a million queries by the end of that year. AOL, a growing online service with fewer than a million users, acquired WebCrawler in 1995.
1993 – Mosaic browser released
At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA Opens a new window) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a team of students led by Marc Andreessen released Mosaic Opens a new window, the first web browser with a graphical user interface, 23 years ago. Now people browsing the web could view images and videos and listen to audio clips inline. Well, Unix users could – Windows and Mac versions followed late in the year. Andreessen soon left NCSA to help found Netscape, which introduced the Netscape Navigator browser based on Mosaic code. If you used Mosaic, you can legitimately claim to have been in on the Web since the beginning.
1965 – Moore's Law published
Gordon Moore's observation about integrated circuits wasn't called Moore's Law Opens a new window at first. Moore, who was director of the research and development laboratory at Fairchild Semiconductor, published at article in Electronics Magazine in which he observed that the number of transistors available on an integrated circuit doubled approximately every two years, and he predicted that this trend would continue. In the '70s, California Institute of Technology professor Carver Mead dubbed this observation "Moore's Law Opens a new window."
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This week's holidays:
Sunday – National Bat Appreciation Day Opens a new window
Monday – Patriots' Day Opens a new window
Tuesday – National Garlic Day Opens a new window
Wednesday – National Look-alike Day — who's yours?
Thursday – Poem in Your Pocket Day Opens a new window
Friday – Earth Day Opens a new window
Saturday – Talk Like Shakespeare Day Opens a new window
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