Do you know anything about it? It looks bad on the tech industry as a whole (but is not the first major failure of this nature, the roll-out of the Obamacare website didn’t go as planned either, being Terribly Flawed according to Time).
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One Hundred and Fifteen Years Ago Today …
Gustave Whitehead, a man of great mechanical skill in the creation and construction of lightweight engines, claimed to have made the first powered flight in his Number 21 that supposedly achieved 60m above ground for 800m. Still disputed to this day, with the waters made murkier by the fact that thirty years ago a replica successfully made 20 successful flights of up to 100m, it was an important day in aviation history as it certainly would have inspired more, better, avaiation inventors to build powered planes that would actually fly and, not much later, carry cargo.
Happy International LeftHanders Day!
A Sad Day in Journalistic History.
Thirty Five years ago today The Washington Star, which had been published daily since 1852, which had been for most of it’s run had been Washington, DC’s newspaper of record, and whose columnist had racked up ten Pulitzer prizes over its lifetime, ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy.
Considering that there are only 17 newspapers in the US that have run for over 200 years, if it had still been around today, it is likely that it would soon be a contender for the twenty-five longest running papers in the US. That being said, 128 years was a long time, and it was sad to see such a major publication fold, especially before the dawn of the internet.
You see, even though LOLCat can’t live without the web …
Happy 25th, WWW!
That’s right. Twenty Five years ago today, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, released files describing his idea for the World Wide Web on the newsgroup alt.hypertext. and the WWW debuted as a publicly available service on the internet.
What do you think of this LOLCat?