It's a Not so Newly Wed, Newly Wed Game Friday On Blind Cafe
Julie Parker
MENU OF EVENTS
Good Morning Members, its A Not so Newly Wed, Newly Wed, Friday on Blind Café!
*Thanks to all our hosts and hostesses who work very hard to entertain our members.
*We hope you enjoy your day on Blind Café!
Date: January 31st, 2014:
****On the Menu every day is for our new members as it has instructions on how to subscribe to our chat list and Menu. Also it gives a description of what can be found in a room by hitting F6. All other members can skip this section and go down to our Senior Menu to find a quick guide to today’s events. Our next section The Classic Menu gives a description of how our games are played. Finally our Dessert Menu is at the bottom of the page and is filled with articles from our members.
*BLIND CAFÉ’S Menu Favorites on the Menu every day:
*Check out our recipe on today’s menu in the Bistro, if you have a recipe that you would like to submit, please send it to ju...@blindcafe.net
*Located at the bottom of the menu you will find our Members Corner. Here we post Tid bits about Medical updates, Financial News, Today in history, zilch replays, Jokes, and other interesting articles sent in by our members.
. If you would like to submit an article please send it to ju...@blindcafe.net
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*Press F6 in our Faith Chapel and listen to Pastor Jonathan and Pastor Volley's Sermons.
*Press F6 in The Pirate’s Cove and sail away to the Islands with Jimmy Buffet.
*Press F6 in the Laughing Leprechaun Room and get some luck of the Irish.
*Mystery Theatre. Press F6 and listen to one of our very own produced mini who dun nit plays, starring our very own Blind Café Members.
*Gadget’s Tech Room. Hit F6 and hear instructions on how to use I Phone Ap’s.
*I didn’t know that learning Centre. Hit F6 and listen to our learning tutorials.
*Café Premier Events Room. Sit back, hit F6 and get ready to listen to our full length, hilariously funny Christmas play that our Blind Café members acted in. “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”
* Blind Café’s 2013, Murder In the Café Manor Halloween Horror Production by Julie P and Patti Woodworth
*Our 2013 Café Expresso Christmas Play, starring Willie and Jeannie Wilson as Santa and Mrs. Claus. See how our members turned into rogue toys and elf’s. Laugh along as poor Sweet P gets hit with the white stuff that she hates so much and last but not least, see how Lorraine runs Grandma over with the reindeer. For some reason Confetti and crew seem to have a hard time with getting Willie off the ground. Written and Produced by Julie Parker and Patti Woodworth, it’s definitely a must to listen to.
*T.V Land. Kick back, put your feet up, relax on one of our comfortable couches, hit f 6 and watch one of our old time classic T.V shows such as Alf
Andy Griffith
Brady Bunch
Bonanza
Dragnet
Gilligan’s island
Green acres
Highway to Heaven
Jefferson’s
Leave it to beaver
Little House on the Prairie
Mash
Mork and Mindy
Mr. Ed
The Munsters
The Walton’s
W.K.R.P in Cincinnati
We have more shows coming soon.
*The Café Comedy Lounge. Hit F6 and get ready for some great comedians like Jeff Dunham, Roy D Mercer, Bill Cosby, Rodney Carrington Songs, James Gregory, and Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy, Jeanne Roberson, Hee Haw episodes and our very own John Harris and Willie in the Copper Clapper! Enjoy a great laugh whenever you want to get happy!
*Movies, Movies, Movies:
We have over 600 described movies for your enjoyment. Come in to Willie’s cinema and watch the movie of your choice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Press F6 from the main room window, and choose the movie you would like to play. Happy movie watching, and don’t forget to bring the popcorn.
*Friday’s Senior Menu:
*7 am Join Mike and the breakfast club crew in the Donut and Coffee shop.
*11am Join your host Patti W. Yes! You guessed it. It’s an early morning game of Zilch! Hey Zilch players
Wow we have 7 winners to play in the January monthly tournament.
I need you all to be in the Zilch Room at 11AM to see who will win.
Patti
Alan, 1-30-14, 6200
Alicia, 1-23-14, 5200
Kim Carter, 1-10-14, 5150
Kathy Rose, 1-24-14, 5850
Rick, 1-16-14, 5250
Soo Keea, 1-28-14, 5450
Terra Lee, 1-11-14, 5000
*2:30pm Join your host TG Dragon in the Winner Circle for an afternoon game of Texas Hold Em!
*4 pm Join your hosts Alan for an informative hour all about Chess. Yes, Blind and Visually Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess! In the Knights of the Round Table room.
5pm Happy Hour! Join Sweet P in The Pirate’s Cove and sail away to the Islands with Jimmy Buffet Music!
8pm The Not so Newly Wed, Newly Wed Game in The Café After Dark. Sponsored by Tera Lee:
Join Rick Rock as he hosts this hilariously funny game, where we pair our café members for the night and we see how they do answering unpredictable questions!
*9:30 pm Join your host Neva for Friday night Café Craps in our Café Craps Dice Room.
Midnight Join Shammy in the Café Comedy lounge for some after hours humor, it promises to be a hoot, and lots of laughs.
**BLIND CAFÉ’S New Events Menu:
New Event:
February 15th, In addition to our talent show on the night of On Broadway, we will be playing our Auction songs. Please get with the person you bid on and make sure they have your song selection.
****For our Classic Menu including times and explanation of games, please read below. All times are Eastern Standard:
7 am The Donut and Coffee Shop opens:
Join our breakfast club and find out about world events and what the weather is like in each others neck of the woods. If you are an early riser you will find one of us lingering around our freshly brewed coffee. If you like to dunk your donut, you had better grab one quick before Willie eats them all!
Join Mike this morning for a cup of brew and a chat.
11 am Zilch Out Room Sponsored by Patti W:
Join your host Patti W and her computer Spanky in our Zilch Out room for a great game of Zilch. All you need to know about this game is don’t Zilch Out.
11:30 am the Bistro Opens Sponsored by Chris Spencer:
Share your lunch hour with us. Come by and chat while we serve you a freshly made sandwich, croissant or for dessert try one of our French pastries. Fresh on the Menu today. Sent in by.
Date Nut Balls
2 sticks
butter
1 pound dates
2 cups brown sugar
1 can coconut
1 cup
nuts
4 cups Rice Krispies
1 teaspoon vanilla
Powdered sugar
Mix
butter, dates and sugar. Cook until mixture bubbles, then cook 6 minutes longer,
stirring constantly. Remove and add coconut, nuts, Rice Krispies and vanilla.
Roll into balls and roll in powdered sugar.
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The 4 Ingredient
Cookbook:
Vegetables
Hot Cabbage
3 cups finely chopped cabbage
1/2
teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons Italian salad
dressing
Sprinkle cabbage with salt and set aside for 30 minutes. Heat oil in
skillet until very hot. Add the cabbage and stir fry about 2 minutes. Remove and
add Italian dressing.
Makes 4 servings.
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Family Breakfast
Brighteners
Rolled Eggs
For each Rolled Egg, beat 1 egg and 1/8 teaspoon
salt until foamy. Melt 2 teaspoons butter, margarine or bacon drippings in hot
10 inch skillet; rotate pan to coat bottom with butter. Pour egg into skillet;
slowly rotate pan to spread mixture into thin circle. Cook over medium heat
about 2 minutes. Loosen edge; roll up, using spatula and fork. When preparing
more than one, keep Rolled Eggs warm on ungreased baking sheet in 275 degree
oven. Nice served with cheese or mushroom
sauce.
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2:30pm Texas Hold Em In The Winners Circle. Sponsored by Chris and Cheryl Spencer:
Join your host TG Dragon forTexas Hold Em. Play each week to enter our quarterly final. Then go on to our end of the year final and become the Blind Café Texas Hold Em Champ!
4 pm Senior moments sponsored by our vets. Join Willie, Alan, Julie or Patti for happy hour. Of course that’s if you can remember where the room is! If you have to hold the key down for an extra second because you can’t remember what you were going to say, don’t worry, you’re in the right room. I think!
4 pm Chess Chat In the Knights of the Round Table Room. Sponsored by Alan Dicey:
Today at 4pm. Do you like to play
Chess? Would you like to learn how
to play chess? Then join your host Alan and Shammy in their new room “Knights of
the round table” Here’s what Alan has to say: "Yes, Blind and Visually
Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess!"
I will tell you How You Can Learn
to Play Chess Absolutely free of cost,
including receiving a free full size
highest quality "Adaptive Chess Set"!
"The Gymnastics of the Brain" or "The
Martial Arts of the Mind" feel the
"Thrill of Victory and the Agony of
Defeat" or just have lots of fun, a
fantastic hobby, wonderful inexpensive
recreation, playing blind or sighted
people alike.
A great way to meet
others, take this games of Kings to whatever level you
like!
Each Week, I
will be discussing all aspects of this great Sport, from how
to get started,
to improving your game if you play already!
5pm Happy Hour! In The pirate’s Cove Room:
sail away to the Islands with some Jimmy Buffet music.
8pm The Not So Newly Wed, Newly Wed Game In Café After Dark. Sponsored by Tera Lee:
Join Rick Rock as he hosts this hilariously funny game, where we pair off our members and then ask some unpredictable questions and laugh as our members try to match each others answers.
9:30 PM Café Craps In Café Craps Dice Room:
Join your host Neva for our house game. Can you roll the highest score? Or at least 100 to enter this months tournament? Come by and find out. All you need to know about this game is, don’t Crap out.
Midnight Open Mic Night in Café Comedy Lounge. Sponsored by Shammy Join your host Sham the man for side bursting jokes. Find out this weeks Blind Café Top 10 hilarious do’s and don’t’s on the Cafe, compiled by Shammy himself. This is an adult event.
12 am Café after Dark opens sponsored by Terra Lee:
Anyone for a late night chat? Let’s see who can stay awake the longest. If we survive until 7am we can always go down to the Donut and coffee shop and join the breakfast club. Where they meet every day.
****What’s for Dessert in the Members Corner:
*Tiffany’s Interesting Food Facts for today:
January 31
National Hot
Chocolate Day
**Thought of the day:
Thanks Sharon for the thought of the day.
Love is non-negotiable. It
doesn't give up, it never abandons.
**** Joke of the Day:
.This was a cute joke sent in by Sharon today. Thanks Sharon. The minister, a true sports enthusiast, reached into his pocket, took out a quarter, flipped it into the air, glanced at it as it landed, then in typical referee fashion joyfully announced: "The ushers have elected to receive!" Of Course! Boom Boom!
Don’t forget to come on out to the Café Comedy Lounge tonight and visit with Sham the Man for Open Mic night. Shammy wants to hear your jokes. Don’t forget he purchased Cheryl’s naughty joke book in the Auction so if you want to hear some good one’s tonight, he s*****God Bless America:
Do you remember Kate Smith?
Frank
Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of her time, and said
that
when he and a million other guys first heard her sing "God Bless
America" on
the radio, they all pretended to have dust in their eyes as they
wiped away
a tear or two.
Here are the facts...
I converted the Youtube to a MP3
file, it is attached, or the link at the
bottom will take
you to a video showing the very first public singing of
"GOD BLESS AMERICA".
But before you watch it, you should also know the story
behind the first
public showing of the song.
The time was 1940. America was still in a
terrible economic depression.
Hitler was taking over Europe and Americans
were afraid we'd have to go to
war. It was a time of hardship and worry for
most Americans.
This was the era just before TV, when radio shows were
HUGE, and American
families sat around their radios in the evenings,
listening to their
favorite entertainers, and no entertainer of that era was
bigger than Kate
Smith.
Kate was also large; plus size, as we now
say, and the popular phrase still
used today is in deference to her, "It
ain't over till the fat lady sings".
Kate Smith might not have made it big
in the age of TV, but with her voice
coming over the radio, she was the
biggest star of her time.
Kate was also patriotic. It hurt her to
see Americans so depressed and
afraid of what the next day would bring. She
had hope for America, and faith
in her fellow Americans.
She wanted to do
something to cheer them up, so she went to the famous
American song-writer,
Irving Berlin (who also wrote "White Christmas") and
asked him to write a
song that would make Americans feel good again about
their country.
When she described what she was looking for, he said he had
just the song
for her.
He went to his files and found a song that he had written, but
never
published, 22 years before - way back in 1917. He gave it to her and
she
worked on it with her studio orchestra. She and Irving Berlin were
not sure
how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they
would not
take any profits from God Bless America.
Any profits would go
to the Boy Scouts of America. Over the years, the Boy
Scouts have received
millions of dollars in royalties from this song.
This video starts out
with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the
orchestra and an
audience. She introduces the new song for the very first
time, and starts
singing. After the first couple verses, with her voice in
the background
still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, "You're
In The Army
Now." At the 4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in
the
movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper; it's Ronald Reagan.
To this
day, God Bless America stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in our
country.
Back in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise
the spirits
of her fellow Americans, I doubt whether she realized just how
successful
the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years
of hardship
and worry..... and for many generations of Americans to
follow. Now that
you know the story of the song, I hope you'll enjoy
it and treasure it even
more.
Many people don't know there's a lead
in to the song since it usually starts
with "God Bless America....." So
here's the entire song as originally sung.
If Clicking on the below does
not work, copy and paste it into your browser
uggests you come on out and visit with him.. See y’all at midnight!
****Superbowl facts sent in by Terry aka TG Dragon:
The Seattle Seahawks and Denver
Broncos will be meeting in New Jersey this weekend for Super Bowl XLVIII. But
football as we know it has a much older tradition than that.
American
Football grew out of English sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular
on American college campuses in the late 1800s. In 1876, a coach named Walter
Camp, who is considered the 'Father of American Football,' helped produce the
first rules of American football. Among important changes were the introduction
of line scrimmages and down-and-distance rules.
Today's Random Fact:
The
most watched television event in the United States is the Super Bowl. Though
football games usually last around 3 hours, the ball is typically in play for
only 11 minutes. Around 56 percent of the game on TV is devoted to
replays.
***
Bonus Fact:
The NFL has an
annual revenue of $9 billion, with a profit of 1 billion. Compared to the NBA
and MLB, NFL players are the lowest-paid players, with salaries that average to
less than $1.5 million dollars.
Just two years after finishing their
careers, approximately 78 percent of NFL players go
bankrupt.
*****The first web site fact sent in by Alan Dicey:
The First Website Ever Made
The First
Ever Machine to Run a Web Server
The first website ever made was, simply put,
it was a website made by the
World Wide Web's creator Tim Berners-Lee, who
was working for CERN (European
Organization for Nuclear Research).
The
first ever website was published on August 6, 1991 and served up a page
explaining the World Wide Web project and giving information on how users
could setup a web server and how to create their own websites and web pages,
as well as how they could search the web for information. The URL for
the
first ever web page put up on the first ever website was
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
This
link is no longer active and, unfortunately, nobody bothered to make a
copy
of this original page, which tended to be updated daily anyways. The
earliest version of it that was recorded was in 1992 and The first ever web
browser, called WorldWideWeb, was also created by Tim Berners-Lee.
This
browser had a nice graphical user interface; allowed for multiple fonts
and
font sizes; allowed for downloading and displaying images, sounds,
animations, movies, etc.; and had the ability to let users edit the web
pages being viewed in order to promote collaboration of information.
However, this browser only ran on NeXT Step's OS, which most people didn't
have because of the high cost of these systems (this company was owned by
Steve Jobs, so you can imagine the cost bloat ;-)).In order to provide a
browser anyone could use, the next browser he developed was much simpler
and, thus, versions of it could be quickly developed to be able to run on
just about any computer, pretty much regardless of processing power or
operating system. It was a bare-bones inline browser (command line /
text
only), which didn't have most of the features of his original browser,
but
at least could be used on pretty much any computer out there at the time
and
allowed people to access the information on the web.
The first web
server was also written by Tim Berners-Lee called CERN HTTPd,
the latter
part standing for "Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon". For
those not familiar, a daemon is simply a program that more or less runs in
the background on a system doing whatever it is programmed to do; in this
case, listening for and responding to requests for web pages that exist on
the machine it is running on; thus this daemon would be called a
"server".
Bonus Facts:
Tim Berners-Lee initially proposed a project that
would later become the web
in 1980. Nobody bit on the idea, so much
later he decided to do it himself
and wrote a more detailed proposal for the
web in March of 1989 and then yet
another proposal in November of 1990 with
the help of Robert Cailliau; this
one was finally accepted. These
proposals outlined building a system based
on "Hypertext", with documents
being able to link with other documents on
this "web" and these documents
being able to be viewed through a client
browser. This system would
then run on top of the already existing
internet. In the original
proposal, he also wanted all pages to be editable
by users so that the
authorship of these pages would be universal, with
everybody contributing
their knowledge.
What made this system unique from existing systems of the
day was the
marriage of the hypertext system (linked pages) with the
internet;
particularly the marriage of one directional links that didn't
require any
action by the owner of the destination page to make it work as
with
bi-directional hyptertext systems of the day. It also vastly
simplified the
development of web servers and web browsers and was a
completely open
platform making it so anyone could contribute and develop
their own systems
without paying any royalties. In the process of
doing all this, he
developed the URL format, hypertext markup language
(HTML), and the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Around this same
time, one of the most popular alternatives to the web (and
indeed much more
popular than the web at that time), the Gopher system,
announced it would no
longer be free to use, effectively killing it with
everybody switching to
the web. (nice move Gopher people, you almost changed
the world, but got
greedy near the finish line ;-))
A mere one month after his 1990 proposal was
accepted, Berners-Lee had built
the first web browser, first web server, and
written the first web pages,
which he subsequently put online and made
available for public consumption.
The "//" forward slashes in any web address
actually serve no real purpose
according to Berners-Lee. He only put
them in because "it seemed like a
good idea at the time." He wanted a
way to separate the part the web server
needed to know about, for instance
from the other stuff which is more
service oriented. Basically, he
didn't want to have to worry about knowing
what service the particular
website was using at a particular link when
creating a link in a web page.
"//" seemed natural, as it would to anyone
who's used Unix based
systems. In retrospect though, this was not at all
necessary, so the
"//" are essentially pointless.
He chose the "#" for separating the main part
of a document's url with the
portion that tells what part of the page to go
to, because in the United
States and some other countries, if you want to
specify an address of an
individual apartment or suite in a building, you
classically precede the
suite or apartment number with a "#". So the
structure is "street name and
number #suite number"; thus "page url
#location in page".A similar logical
thought process was used by the
inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, when he
selected the "@" symbol to
separate the person's address with the domain; it
seemed natural to say, for
instance, "ray at tomlinson.com".
Most people use the terms "World Wide Web"
or just "web" and "internet"
interchangeably, even though these are two very
different things. Simply
put, the internet is a global network of
networks of computers; the web is
simply one of the many services available
on the internet, providing
facilities for accessing and connecting documents
and other files available
on the internet.
Berners-Lee chose the name
"World Wide Web" because he wanted to emphasize
that, in this global
hypertext system, anything could link to anything else.
Alternative names he
considered were: "Mine of Information" (Moi); "The
Information Mine" (Tim);
and "Information Mesh" (which was discarded as it
looked too much like
"Information Mess").
Three of the commonly held "fathers" of the actual
internet were Vint Cerf
and Bob Kahn, who developed the "Internet Protocol"
(IP) which defines how
packets of a file are to be sent from one machine to
another through the
internet, and Paul Mockapetris, who developed the Domain
Name System (DNS)
which, very simply put, maps domain names to IP
addresses. Though these
three are some of the more famous developers
of the internet, there were
many others and the original internet from
concept to working implementation
took about 10 years, starting around 1973
and brought fully online
officially around 1983, with some earlier
demonstrations such as in 1977
linking SATNET, PRNET, and ARPANET.The
concept of packet switching itself,
which is integral to the Internet
Protocol (IP), was invented by Paul
Barran.
What the IP protocol
essentially does is provide a way for packets of
information to be sent from
one computer to another through the vast
internet. Essentially, the
packet is like a piece of mail where you've put
the address on it; the IP
protocol then is used by computers on the internet
to determine, basically,
what wires to send a packet through that will
eventually get the packet to
the computer it is addressed to.
The first ever domain registered was
Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. It
was registered by the Symbolics
Computer Corp. Since that time, well over
200 million domains have
been registered, about half of which are registered
with the ".com"
extension.
Berners-Lee's original browser was also an editor. His goal
here was to
allow people to not only browse the information available on the
web, but
also be able to edit and add information to existing files, not
unlike
wiki's, such as Wikipedia.
Ironically, pronouncing "www" as
individual letters "double-u double-u
double-u" takes three times as many
syllables as simply saying "World Wide
Web". So, as Douglas Adams
famously noted, the shortened version of the
phrase takes a lot longer to
say than the actual phrase.
If you ever wondered about the proper way to
write the phrase "World Wide
Web", Berners-Lee says, "World Wide Web is
officially spelled as three
separate words, each capitalized, with no
intervening hyphens."
Most web addresses begin with "www" because of the
traditional practice of
naming a server according to the service it
provides. So outside of this
practice, there is no real reason for any
website URL to need to put a "www"
before the domain name; the
administrators of whatever website can set it to
put anything they want
preceding the domain or nothing at all. This is why,
as time goes on,
more and more websites have adopted allowing only putting
the domain name
itself and assuming the user wants to access the web service
instead of some
other service the machine itself may provide. Thus, the web
itself has
more or less become the "default" service (generally on port 80)
on most
service hosting machines on the internet.
While the "www" is merely on
convention and not strictly necessary,
"http://" and "https://" specify two
different protocols, one secure and one
not, and thus one or the other must
be included.
The first non-British based web server was setup in the Stanford
Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC) in December 1991.
By November of 1992,
there were 26 web servers running in the world. By
October of 1993,
there were about 200 web servers in the world. Today there
are
millions.
Also today, there are an estimated 110 million websites available
on the
internet with well over 1 trillion unique urls, according to members
of the
Google Search team.
The web's growth was at first fairly slow
until the introduction of the
Mosaic web browser in 1993. This was a
graphical browser developed by the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at the University of
Illinois. Funding for this was
through a U.S. government initiative,
specifically the "High Performance
Computing and Communications Act of 1991.
This act was initiated by Al Gore,
which is what he was saying in the Wolf
Blitzer interview where many claim
he said he invented the internet. Even
though his actual quote simply
said, "I took the initiative in creating the
Internet", as in he introduced
the initiative. This sentence, taken out of
context, caused confusion
over the context of the word "initiative" and
allowed opponents to construe
that he said he invented the internet, which
isn't what he was saying at all
when viewed in context. Ironically, his
opponents were actually right
though, in a way; he is lying in the above
statement. He is saying he
introduced the initiative which led to the
creation of the internet; in
fact, the internet and the web are two very
different things. He
simply introduced the initiative that funded the web
browser (and some other
advancements in the internet itself) that helped
make the web popular.
The internet had been around long before these
initiatives.
Prior to
Mosaic's launch, the web was much less popular than other much
older
protocols for dealing with files on the internet, such as Gopher and
Wide
Area Information Servers (WAIS).
One of the most important things about
Mosaic was it was very easy for every
day users to install and use and the
creators offered 24 hour phone support
to help people get it setup and
working on their systems. It also included
the ability to view web
pages with inline images (instead of in separate
windows as other browsers
at the time). Other than that though, it wasn't
nearly as advanced as
some other browsers of the day. So really about all
that set it apart
was simply how easy it was to get setup and working for
even people who
weren't particularly technically oriented.
The first web server was run on a
NeXT computer; this computer was also used
by Berners-Lee to write the first
web browser software.
NeXT computers were relatively high end workstations
sold by Steve Job's
fledgling company NeXT. NeXT computers ran a
Unix-based NeXT STEP operation
system, not too dissimilar to early versions
of OSX. Job's love for naming
his product with trendy names was
evident here as the NeXT machines were
more commonly known as "The Cube",
due to the casing being a 1 ft x 1 ft x 1
ft die-cast magnesium cube.
This computer was not commercially successful
due to its relatively high
price for what was offered. *looks at Macs*
Apple purchased NeXT in 1996 for
429 Million dollars using the OpenStep OS
as the foundation for
OSX.
Berners-Lee also founded the W3C at MIT. The W3C oversees the
web's
continued development, setting standards and issuing recommendations
on
improvements to the web.
Today, among a lot of other things,
Berners-Lee is working on a project with
the British government to provide,
free to anyone, all data acquired for
official uses by the UK Government at
data.gov.uk.
The "in-line" console based browser developed by Berners-Lee was
actually
the first browser I ever used back in the seventh grade on one of
my
friend's computers, who was also the only person I knew who had access to
the internet itself. We used it to look up a directory of phone
numbers on
the web to prank call people a-la-Bart Simpson style. Not a
bad "first
usage" of the web for me, if I do say so myself.
1990 not only
saw the first website go online, but also saw the Hubble Space
Telescope set
in orbit by the space shuttle Discovery.
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*********Today in history by Alan Dicey:
Today in History, Today is Thursday,
January 30, 2014
Today's Highlights in History:
On this date January 30,
1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
On this date in 1649
England's King Charles I was beheaded.
King Charles I executed for
treason
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-charles-i-executed-for-treason
On
this date in 1781: Maryland finally ratifies Articles of Confederation
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/maryland-finally-ratifies-articles-of-confederation
On
this date in 1835: Andrew Jackson narrowly escapes assassination
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-narrowly-escapes-assassination
On
this date in 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the
United States, was born in Hyde Park, New York
On this date in 1883 James
Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for
the first cash
register.
On this date in 1920 : Japan's Mazda founded
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japans-mazda-founded
On
this date in 1933 The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" was broadcast on
radio station WXYZ in Detroit.
On this date in 1943 : during World War 2,
RAF launches massive daytime raid
on Berlin
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/raf-launches-massive-daytime-raid-on-berlin
On
this date in 1948 Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi
was
murdered by a Hindu extremist. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political
and
spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in
New
Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gandhi-sssassinated-in-new-delhi
On
this date in 1968 The Tet offensive began as Communist forces launched
surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tet-offensive-shakes-cold-war-confidence
On
this date in 1969 The Beatles performed in public for the last time in a
45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in
London.
On this date in 1972 Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers
were shot
to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became
known as
"Bloody Sunday."
On this date in 2003 Richard Reid, a British
citizen and al-Qaida follower,
was sentenced to life in prison by a federal
judge in Boston for trying to
blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with
explosives hidden in his shoes.
On this date in 2005 Iraqis voted in their
country's first free election in
a half-century.
On this date in 2006
Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Reverend Martin
Luther King Jr., died
at age 78.
On this date in 2007 Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system
went on
sale.
Today's Birthdays:
King Abdullah II of Jordan turns 52
years old today.
Dorothy Malone Actress 89
Harold Prince Producer,
director 86
Gene Hackman Actor 84
Tammy Grimes Actress 80
Vanessa
Redgrave Actress 77
Dick Cheney Former vice president 73
Marty Balin Rock
singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)72
Phil Collins Rock singer, musician
(Genesis)63
Actor Charles S. Dutton turns 63 years old today.
Brett Butler
Actress, comedian ("Grace Under Fire")56
Jody Watley R&B singer
55
Norbert Leo Butz Actor 47
Christian Bale Actor ("The Dark Knight,"
"Batman Begins") 40
Carl Broemel Rock musician (My Morning Jacket)
40
Wilmer Valderrama Actor ("That '70s Show") 34
Marcus Mumford Rock
singer, musician (Mumford and Sons) 27
Thought For Today:
"Our society is
run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're
being run by
maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away
as insane
for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
- John Lennon
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