Amaya Toman In yesterday's part of our series on significant events in the field of technology, we recalled, for example, the arrival the first computer mice or release of the world wide web (WWW) for the public. Today marks a significant anniversary for Apple - it was officially launched for the first time 17 years ago opened the iTunes Music Store.
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The iTunes Store Opens Its Doors (2003)
On April 28, 2003, it opened its virtual doors iTunes Music Store - Apple's online music store. At that time, music downloading was gaining more and more popularity, but a large part of users obtained music illegally. Songs on the iTunes Music Store were downloadable for 99 cents a "piece". To Steve Jobs managed to conclude an agreement with the then "big five" among record companies - BMG, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. At the time of its launch, the iTunes Music Store offered more than 200 thousand songs, during the next six months, this number doubled. In December 2003 already boasted the iTunes Music Store 25 million downloads.
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Security flaw in Internet Explorer (2014)
At the end of April 2014, she discovered the company Microsoft serious security error in your web browser Internet Explorer. The mistake threatened all browser versions and attackers could exploit it to gain access to that computer. Microsoft then issued an official statement in which it promised to fix it as soon as possible. The handful of users who remained loyal to Explorer even in 2014 were advised to temporarily switch to another browser.
Other events (not only) in the world of technology:
- V libni was made the first Czech locomotive (1900)
- He was born Ian Murdock, a German programmer and founder of the project Debian Linux distribution (1973)
- Two days later, information about nuclear accident in Chernobyl (1986)
