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July 26, 2012: Google Fiber Launched,2000: Napster Injunction Issued
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
July 25, 2005: Violent Video Games Bill Goes into Law
The sale of Video Games began to really heat up in 2005 as Illinois GovernerRod Blagojevich signs a bill into law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors. You could be fined up to $1,00
July 24, 2013: Chromecast TV Dongle Debuted
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
July 23, 1886: First Car Ever,1903: First Model A Seventeen Years Later
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,
July 22, 1988: Arrests of Fry Guy, Atlanta Three, Legion of Doom
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 Souths Telephone Networks in
July 21, 1925: John Scopes Guilty on Teaching Evolution
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 gui
July 20 1999: Y2K Act Gives Government Protection
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 insan
July 19, 2000: Apple PowerMac G4 Cube
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 o
July 18, 1968: Intel Incorporates
Hungarian immigrant Andy Grove, along with Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce foundedIntel in 1968, asIntegratedElectronics Corporation. Intel was actually the trademark of a hotel They ended up buyin
July 17, 1955: First Town Run on Nuclear Power
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 l