In 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the Moon, was launched by the USSR.
In 1979 – Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporated Software Arts for the purpose of developing VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program.
In 2004 – NASA’s Stardust spacecraft successfully flew past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples it brought back to Earth two years later.
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The 2015 season is closer than you think. In celebration of the new year, The FSL announced the brand new Phil Meadows logos for the new 2015 teams.
The Los Angeles Guardians of the Galaxy try to capitalize on their roots playing in the Galaxy while identifying with the upmarket LA metro area.
While The Cheyenne Mountain Gators make no secret of the pride in their teams ability to play to all fields.
In 1939 – In a garage in Palo Alto, California, William Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett-Packard a little company that made audio oscillators– and later TouchPads.
In 1983 – A new Internet and Transmission Control Protocol (Yep called IP/TCP by some at the time, weird I know) went into effect on the ARPANet, replacing the Network Control Protocol. The result was a new ARPA Internet combining ARPA hosts of the time new systems.
In 1985 – The Nordic Research Network NORDUnet registered the first domain name NORDU.NET.
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