1908 – Gabriel Lippman proposed using a series of lenses at a picture’s surface instead of opaque barrier lines, allowing three dimensional pictures. He titled his presentation to the French Academy of Sciences “La Photographie Integral”.
http://www.outeraspect.com/history_lenticular.php?
1983 – CBS Records launched the first major compact disc music marketing campaign, launching 16 titles. CDs had gone on sale to the public the previous October in Japan.
2004 – Review site Engadget launched with a post about T-Flash, a new memory card format, by founder Peter Rojas.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/02/today-is-engadgets-10th-birthday/?
2010 – The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rejected legislation requiring electronic communications traffic data retention for a period of 6 months as a violation of the guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence.
https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2010/03/articles/german-federal-constitutional-court-declares-implementation-of-data-retention-directive-unconstitutional/?
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