Everyday Test Huddle brings you the key computer related historical events that occurred on this day in history including software and hardware releases, births and deaths of notable personalities, events, notable news stories and more.
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1969 – Welcome to The Internet
UCLA issue a press release. introducing the world to the internet. A network of computers would be established in the coming months with a message sent over the ARPANET network in October becoming the first signs of the beginning of the internet.
1999 – New Pacman World Record
Billy Mitchell (star of the documentary King of Kong) achieves a “perfect” score on the arcade version of Pacman at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire. He achieves the score of 3,333,360 points, (the highest that the game allows) playing for over six hours.
2009 – McAffee creates Windows issues
McAffee caused some issues for Windows users all over as a McAffee update wipes out core files in the Windows system.
images: McAffee/arcade-museum.com
