In 1932 – The BBC began public television broadcasts.
In 1955 – The first computer user group, SHARE was founded by users of IBM’s Model 704 computer. The first meeting was held in the basement conference room of the RAND Corporation.
In 2007 – The Storm botnet sent out a record 57 million virus-infected emails. It failed to take down the Internet.
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