Amaya Toman With the start of a new week, we also bring you a brand new part of our regular series about significant events in history technology industry. Today we will remember, for example, the performance the first Chromebooks s Chrome OS, but perhaps also the first demo of the software VisiCalc for computers Apple II.
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First demo of VisiCalc software (1979)
May 11 of the year 1979 the third year of the fair and conference took place West Coast Computer Faire. Programmers Daniel Bricklin a Robert Frankston on it, for the very first time, they demonstrated the operation and functioning of the spreadsheet in practice VisiCalc software. It was the VisiCalc software that the computers of the time were capable of Apple II owe their success to offices and companies and for higher sales - namely VisiCalc at the time of its beginnings he wasn't for another platform k available. During the first year managed to sell respectable 100 thousand copies of this program. Gradually, VisiCalc also came out in a pro version Atari, PET Commodore a IBM.
Launch of Chinese Wikipedia (2006)
In 2006 was in China operation of the local version started Wikipedia. The encyclopedic website bore the name Baidupedia (Baidu Baike). Classic Wikipedia was in China k available only up to a year 2005 and enjoyed great popularity, government but her in the end she banned. Baidupedia is similar to Wikipedia formed by themselves users, but its content is very subject to change strict censorship by government organizations.
The Google Chromebook (2011) is coming
May 11 of the year 2011 presented by the company Google at its developer conference in San Francisco a netbook called Google Chromebook. An operating system was running on the computer Chrome OS from Google, the computer promised all-day battery life, quick start, frequent update operating system or perhaps an option built-in connection to the internet. The first Chromebooks from the company's workshop Samsung and Acer were sold in mid June 2011.
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- A group of scientists led by JE Purkyně undertakes systematic natural science research in Bohemia (1864)
- Influential media mogul Rupert Murdoch born (1931)
