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In today's summary of historical events in the field of technology, Apple will be discussed again after some time. Today is the anniversary of the day Steve Wozniak successfully completed the basic design of a printed circuit board. In the second part of the article, we will remember the day of the demise of the Netscape web browser.

Wozniak's Plate (1976)

On March 1, 1976, Steve Wozniak successfully completed the basic design of a printed circuit board for a (relatively) easy-to-use personal computer. The very next day, Wozniak demonstrated his design at the Homebrew Computer Club, of which Steve Jobs was also a member at the time. Jobs immediately recognized the potential in Wozniak's work and convinced him to venture into the computer technology business with him. You all know the rest of the story - a month later, both Steves founded Apple and gradually worked their way up to the top of the technology industry from the garage of Jobs' parents.

Goodbye Netscape (2008)

The Netscape Navigator web browser was particularly popular among users in the mid-1s. But nothing lasts forever, and this statement is especially true in the case of the Internet and technology in general. On March 2008, XNUMX, America Online finally buried this browser. Netscape was the first commercial web browser and is still widely credited by experts for popularizing the Internet in the XNUMXs. After some time, however, Netscape began to tread dangerously on the heels of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The latter eventually gained a majority share of the web browser market - thanks, among other things, to the fact that Microsoft began to "bundle" it free of charge with its Windows operating system.

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