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In today's installment of our regular series looking back at important milestones in the history of technology and science, we remember two important eventsi. One of them is arrival the first iMac, which definitely put Apple back on top. The second is the establishment of the company SpaceX.

The iMac is Coming (1998)

May 6 of the year 1998 introduced by Steve Jobs in Flint Center Theater the first iMac, which later went down in history as Bondi blue. The first iMac diametrically different from personal computers that were commonly available at the time. It was a colorful one all-in-one model with an elegant design from the workshop Jony Ive. The iMac was a historically first product, whose title was lowercased "I", and is still considered by many to be a symbol of Apple's return to the top of the technology industry.

Elon Musk Founds SpaceX (2002)

May 6 of the year 2002 founded Elon Musk company Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, known as SpaceX. To finance it, Musk used funds that earned na sales your payment system PayPal. From the workshop SpaceX for example, rocket launchers appeared Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Dragon spacecraft or perhaps a series of telecommunications satellites Starlink. The goal of the Starlink project is to provide a broadband Internet connection.

Other events (not only) from the world of technology

  • British computer EDSAC performed its first calculation (1949)
  • The final episode of the comedy sitcom Friends (2004) aired in the US
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