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checkers player from Stamford, Connecticut, who would later July 12th Hand-held Gaming become state champion. Nealey lost one game against the July 12, 1960 program after making a fairly Carl Adam Petri elementary mistake, leaving his The Etch A Sketch was one of the back rank unguarded. In a Born: July 12, 1926; earliest hand-held gaming rematch the following year, Leipzig, Germany devices, and the result of five consisting of six game, Nealey Died: July 2, 2010 years of work by its inventor scored one win and five draws. André Cassagnes. L’Ecran Petri is best known for inventing Magique (the "magic screen", as In 1966, Samuel’s program the Petri Net, a graph-based it was first called) was operated played four games each against modeling tool for parallel and by twisting two knobs to move a Walter Hellman (the longest distributed systems, when he stylus that displaced aluminum reigning world US champion) was just 13 years old. He used powder on the back of the and Derek Oldbury (a UK them initially to describe screen, leaving a solid line. champion), and lost all eight. chemical processes. It debutted at the 1959 In the late 1970s, Konrad Zuse International Toy Fair in [June 22] worked with Petri on Nuremberg, but 'drew' little using Petri Nets as a model for Sysops Do Strange attention until the Ohio Art the laws of physics. Zuse later Company paid $25,000 for the wrote two books about the Things license. The company renamed it subject: "Petri Nets from the the Etch A Sketch and began July 12, 1985 Viewpoint of an Engineer" production in 1960 making it (1980) and "Applications of The "Private Sector BBS", the the must-have Christmas toy for Petri Nets" (1982). bulletin board for 2600 that year. magazine [Jan 12], was seized in The Etch A Sketch Animator a raid after Middlesex County (1987) was an early electronic police uncovered credit card Vojislav (Voja) version, featuring a low- fraud on another, unrelated BBS. Antonić resolution dot matrix display but At a press conference on July 16, with the same knobs-based prosecutors alleged that the Born: July 12, 1952; interface (KBI) for drawing, and board’s sysops had repositioned Šabac, Serbia, then Yugoslavia several new buttons to space satellites and done manipulate the drawings. It “strange things” to computers in Antonić created a build-it- could store up to 12 pictures the defense department. yourself home computer called which could be strung together the Galaksija (the Galaxy) which to create an animation. Ultimately, all the equipment he described in an article in the was returned and all charges special January 1984 edition of dropped, except for a single the Yugoslavian magazine fourth-degree misdemeanor. Galaksija called "Računari u vašoj kući" (Computers in your Over the years, 2600 magazine Home), edited by Dejan has supported numerous cases Ristanović. related to technology and freedom of speech, perhaps the By utilizing a cheap Zilog Z80 most significant being the one [March 9] to manage and control involving the DeCSS copy video generation, Antonić protection tool [March 00] designed a machine that was within the price range of ordinary people to construct The Etch A Sketch Animator. themselves. He also essentially Photo by Tim Morgan. SSH released the Galaksija schematic to the public domain. July 12, 1995 The initial circulation of 30,000 Tatu Ylönen of Helsinki copies of the magazine was sold University of Technology out in a matter of weeks, so AI Beats Man released the first version of the another one of the same size July 12, 1962 Secure Shell (SSH), a protocol was printed, followed by a third for securely running services edition of 40,000 copies at the Arthur Samuel [Dec 5] decided over an unsecured network. His end of the year. By some to have his Checkers program aim was to offer a replacement estimates, some 80,000 [Feb 24] challenge a strong for the old rlogin [Nov 8], telnet Galaksija were built. player in a series of games. He [April 3], FTP [Nov 23], and rsh chose Robert W. Nealey, a blind protocols, which didn't provide 1 strong authentication, or farmhouse located in Kipling, Greenwood. In addition, track guarantee confidentiality. Saskatchewan (pop 1,100). seven, “Fitter Happier”, includes spoken-word lyrics recited by Ylönen was inspired to start the the "Fred" voice from the work after his university's Macintosh MacinTalk network fell victim to a application [Jan 24]. password-sniffing attack. Radiohead aren’t the first band By the end of 1995, there were to add code to their music, that already 20,000 users in fifty was Chris Sievey (aka Frank countries, but OpenSSH Sidebottom) on his [April 1] eventually became the most The paperclip. Photo by Kyle 1983 single "Camoflage". popular SSH implementation. It MacDonald. CC BY 2.0. was forked from SSH after it became proprietary, sold by SSH Communications Security, MacDonald later donated the founded by Ylönen. house to the town, who turned it into a café and tourist attraction, called "The Red Paperclip House". The café features the BlackBerry 850 world’s largest red paperclip on July 12, 1999 display outside. RIM [March 7] began selling its first BlackBerry device: the 850 which was one of the first OK Computer wireless devices capable of July 12, 1997 / 2017 connecting users to their corporate email services. For "OK Computer" was the third instance, it could receive email studio album by English from a Microsoft Exchange alternative rock band Server via the BlackBerry Radiohead. It was also reissued Enterprise Server (BES). 20 years later, also on this day. In a canny move, RIM also began One of the album's themes was offering email services on non- the effects of rampant BlackBerry devices, such as the consumerism, and the record Palm [June 1] Treo, via its garnered widespread critical BlackBerry Connect software. acclaim. The Blackberry series was The reissued, very reasonably named due to the resemblance priced, £100 commemorative of its keyboard’s keys to the box-set was entitled OKNOTOK, bumps on the same-named fruit. and included an audio cassette, ending with two minutes of high-pitched noise. Playing this audio on a ZX Spectrum [April One Red Paperclip 23] emulator (after processing it with a 3.5kHz low-pass filter) July 12, 2005 produced a 30-line program The "One Red Paperclip" which prints a list of the band website was created by members. This is followed by a Canadian blogger Kyle minute-long series of randomly MacDonald on this day. Over the generated colors and beeps. course of a year, he managed to The code’s first ten or so lines barter the paperclip into a house also contain a message as a using just fourteen online series of comments, which reads trades. He had been inspired by “congratulations….you’ve found the childhood game "Bigger and the secret message syd lives Better". hmmmm. We should get out MacDonald traded the paperclip more.” for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, The ZX Spectrum connection is and reached his "house" goal on due to the fifth track, “Let July 5, 2006 when he traded a Down”, which features sounds movie role in "Donna on produced using a Spectrum by Demand" (2009) for a two-story guitarist/keyboardist Jonny 2 .