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Post by ThatShaneGibson on Jun 26, 2014 15:25:45 GMT 10
It was in 1870, 144 years ago that USA declared Christmas as a federal holiday. 1894 saw Karl Benz of Germany recieve the US patent for a gasoline-driven auto-mobile. The first movie theatre in the US was opened this day 118 years ago. admission cost 10 cents. 1983 Fisher-Price decided to get in to the video game market. Microsoft stopped support for MS-DOS in 1994. They began filming Star Wars Episode 1 in 1997. That was 17 years ago now and they have started filming Star Wars Episode 7. Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Unwired Planet joined forces to invent WAP for wireless security after the faults found in WEP. In 2000 Yahoo started to get there search results form Google. 2003 had Apple release the monster powered Power Mac G4 that came with a choice of single or duel 1.25GHz G4 processors as well and a single 80GB hard drive or duel 160GB drives. Microsoft released Service pack 4 for Windows 2000 even though WinXP had been out for 2 years.
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