Amaya Toman Since the very beginning of the technology industry, more or less fundamental moments take place every day in this area, which have been written down in history in a significant way. In our new series, every day we recall interesting or important moments that are historically connected with the given date.
First public showing of the Kinetoscope (1894)
On April 14, 1894, the first public presentation of Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope took place. This device was used to view a fifty-foot film strip connected in an endless loop, it was powered by an electric motor and its frame rate was around forty pictures per second.
First VCR (1956)
American company Ampex Corp. On April 14, 1956, it publicly presented its first commercially usable video recorder. The device was labeled VR-1000, used two-inch tape and only allowed black-and-white recording. Due to its price - which was 50 thousand dollars - the product could mostly be afforded only by television broadcasting studios and similar institutions. The VR-1000 video recorder had its considerable technical limitations, but it became a widely used standard for many studios for a long time.
Netflix Comes to DVD (1998)
When you think of "Netflix" these days, most people think of the popular online streaming service. But the history of Netflix actually goes back much further. Netflix was founded in 1997 in California. In the second half of the 14s, when VHS tapes were gradually being replaced by DVD carriers in the United States, Netflix launched a system of remote DVD sales and rentals - discs were distributed through regular mail. On April 1998, 925, the company launched a website to simplify the process of purchasing DVDs for users. At that time, XNUMX titles were available, and thirty employees took care of the site's operation.
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Metallica Sues Napster (2000)
Some of you may remember the Napster phenomenon. It was a popular P2P music service that was launched in 1999. People used Napster to share music with each other in mp3 format. Metallica's "I Disappear" even appeared on Napster before its official release, and the band decided to file a lawsuit against Napster in 2000. After a year of court proceedings, Napster was terminated in the form in which users had known it until then, but the service had a significant impact on the emergence and increase in popularity of other P2P services.
