The birth of Paul Rand, the idea for Internet Explorer comes about and the iMac G3 goes on sale. All on today’s On This Day from TestHuddle.
1914 – Paul Rand is born 
Paul Rand American Graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, and Steve Jobs’s NeXT was born in Brooklyn, New York. He would have been 100 today.
1994 – Internet Explorer, anyone?
Benjamin Slivka sent an e-mail to his co-workers suggesting a World Wide Web browser as a feature for Windows 95. He had worked at Microsoft for a number of years, where he worked on OS/2, MS-DOS 6, Windows 95, the Java VM, and MSN. He started the Internet Explorer team in 1994 and led it through the release of IE version 3.0 in 1996. He led the team that wrote the Win32 API specification in 1991, he started and led the team that created CAB software distribution files in 1993. Over the years Microsoft has faced legal challenges for the way it bundled the result of the project – Internet Explorer – with Windows software.
1998 – iMac G3 goes on sale
The Apple iMac G3 was part of the reinvigoration of Apple’s product range by Steve Jobs after he returned as CEO of Apple. The system features a 233MHz processor, an ATI Rage IIc graphics card with 2MB of SGRAM. The systems was released only available in a Bondi Blue case, with the reset hole set in the side panel. It was hailed for its design and look but was criticised for moving to USB ports for peripherals and removing a floppy disk drive from the system design. It is also the only original iMac model to have an infrared port. The iMac G3 went on sale for a retail price of US$1299.
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