Amaya Toman In the last installment of our regular series on major technology events we commemorated the arrival of the IBM hard drive and the Compaq monitor, today we delve a little deeper into the past - today is the anniversary of Alexander Bell's practical test of the photophone. But it will also be about the movie War Games.
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Alexander Bell and the photophone
On June 3, 1880, Alexander Graham Bell's invention, which was supposed to be used for wireless voice transmission, was tested in practice. The photophone was then used to transmit a voice message from the roof of Franklin's school to the windows of Bell's laboratory. The transmission distance was about 213 meters, and Bell's assistant, Charles S. Tainter, also conducted the test. The photophone, which enabled one-way communication by means of a varying intensity of a beam of light, was officially patented in 1881, and Bell later described the invention as his "greatest invention, even more significant than the telephone."
War Games and Hacking (1983)
On June 3, 1983, a sci-fi drama called War Games was released. Director John Badham's film, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Seeda, was one of the first mainstream films in which the public could encounter the hacking phenomenon. However, this topic is much older - listed on the site CyberSecurityVentures you will find pictures from the sixties and seventies.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- Intel introduces its Nehalem Core i7 processor (2009)
- Overseas operator AT&T is starting to offer Wi-Fi in Starbucks coffee shops
