Amaya Toman In today's part of our regular series called Back to the past, we will first go to the second half of the nineties of the last century. We will remember the day when the world first officially learned about the successful cloning of a sheep named Dolly. The second remembered event will be the start of operations of the first Internet bank in history - First Internet Bank of Indiana.
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Dolly the Sheep (1997)
On February 22, 1997, scientists at the Scottish Research Institute announced that they had successfully cloned an adult sheep named Dolly. Dolly the sheep was born in July 1996, and was the first mammal to be successfully cloned from the somatic cell of an adult. The experiment was led by Professor Ian Wilmut, Dolly the sheep was named after the American country singer Dolly Parton. She lived until February 2003, during her life she gave birth to six healthy lambs. The cause of death - or the reason for her euthanasia - was a serious lung infection.
First Internet Bank (1999)
On February 22, 1999, the operation of the first Internet bank in history, which bore the name First Internet Bank of Indiana, began. This was the first time that banking services were available via the Internet. First Internet Bank of Indiana fell under the holding company First Internet Bancorp. The founder of First Internet Bank of Indiana was David E. Becker, and among the services that the bank offered online was, for example, the ability to check the status of the bank account, or the ability to view information related to savings and other accounts on a single screen. First Internet Bank of Indiana was a privately capitalized institution with over three hundred private and corporate investors.
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