Today in Tech History: July 26, 2008 Video
Today in Tech History: July 26, 2008 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Tom Merritt. It's July 26, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. The first geosynchronous satellite was launched today in 1963. The Syncom 2 successfully achieved orbit. The first Syncom was lost after launch on Valentine's Day. What a bummer, Syncom 2 has been lonely ever since. Fans of Grim Fandango will be celebrating the 1967 birth of Tim Schafer, the computer game designer credited with such revolutionary point and click adventure games as the Monkey Island series. Can't go wrong with monkeys, can you Tim? And finally in 1989 a Cornell student became the first indictment under the Computer Fraud Act after releasing a worm on the Internet. Robert Tappan Morris said he was just trying to gauge the size of the Internet. A design flaw caused some infected computers to keep replicating the worm. Hey Robert, you probably realize this now, but maybe there was a better way to gauge the size of the Internet. At least they named the Morris Worm after you. That's it for this day in tech history. Come back tomorrow for some hockey!
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