[April 7] systems running in a designed by Steve Bristow, who secure underground location in had previously worked on Nov. 5th Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Computer Space" [Oct 15]. Bristow turned his prototype Although SABRE was originally over to Lyle Rains to develop only used by American Airlines, into a finished product, and SABRE it was opened up to travel Rains added the maze and a Nov. 5, 1959 agents in 1976. By the end of the minefield. 1980's, it was running on over In the summer of 1953, during a 180,000 agency terminals Although "Gran Trak 10", ten-hour flight from Los Angeles worldwide. released in [May 00] 1974, was to NYC, C.R. Smith, the president the first arcade game to store Though SABRE now uses of American Airlines, and Blair data in ROM , it’s ROM employed thousands of Linux servers, IBM Smith (unrelated), an IBM antiquated diode-based mainframes are still at its core. salesman, discussed ideas for a technology. distributed, interactive real-time flight reservation system. It was later called SABRE (the Semi- Tank Automatic Business Research Mockingbird Environment); they had first Nov. 5, 1974 Nov. 5-8, 1981 wanted SABER but there were Kee Games released the Tank copyright difficulties with that Mockingbird, the first visual arcade game. Two players must word. editor for musicians, was maneuver their tanks through a presented at the 1981 A development agreement was maze viewed from above while International Computer Music signed on this day, and an attempting to shoot each other. Conference in Dallas. It was experimental system was developed at Xerox PARC [July operational by 1960, running on Kee Games was headed by Joe 1] by John Maxwell and Severo two IBM 7090s based at a new Keenan, a long-time friend of Ornstein [Oct 13]. data center in Briarcliff Manor, Atari's [June 27] co-founder Nolan Bushnell [Feb 5]. Kee New York. Some time during Mockingbird could play scores advertised itself as a competitor 1962, the first reservation was on a synthesizer as well as made with the system, and the to Atari, but was in reality a display and print them in wholly owned subsidiary, project became IBM’s biggest standard music notation form. It created to appease the arcade non-government contract during could process both graphical distributors of the time who the 1960's. input and music played on a demanded exclusivity deals. Yamaha CP-30 synthesizer The design wasn't completely keyboard. new, using lessons learnt from Tank became so popular (selling over 10,000 units) that Atari IBM’s involvement in SAGE [June Mockingbird was coded in Mesa, merged Kee Games into the 26], the first major (military) a language first developed for system to use interactive real- the Xerox Alto [March 1]. time computing. Indeed, the first SABRE director was an ex-SAGE “The closest it got to serious engineer, Perry Crawford. use,” noted Ornstein, “was while my father was writing his Also, SABRE wasn't quite the seventh piano sonata. first computerized airline reservations system; the Teleregister system developed by Evelyn Berezin [April 12] for Q-Link Online United Airlines predates it by Nov. 5, 1985 about a year. Photo of Tank gameplay; the two Quantum Computer Services, at In April 1964, SABRE’s tanks are at the bottom of the the prompting of Steve Case nationwide network went live screen. (c) Kee Games. Fair use. and immediately became the [Aug 21], created Quantum Link largest commercial real-time (aka Q-Link), an online service company and later released offering chat rooms, e-mail, data-processing system in the Tank under the Atari label. Also, games, and programs for the world. Via telephone lines, the there wasn't much point Commodore 64 [Jan 7] and 128. system linked 1,500 terminals in continuing the subtefuge after Access to the service was 65 cities, delivering data on any Kee’s true relationship to Atari typically via dial-up modems flight in less than three seconds. became widely known in Dec. running at speeds ranging from It handled 7500 passenger 1974. 300 to 2400 baud. reservations per hour in 1965. Tank was the first game to use Q-Link was a modified version of In 1972, the system was an integrated circuit-based ROM the PlayNET system, created by migrated to IBM System/360 to store graphics data. It was Dave Panzl and Howard 1 Goldberg. PlayNET was the first The protest inundated various online software to feature Annie for CG UK government websites with graphics, an advantage carried Nov. 5 1993 enormous volumes of e-mail, over to Q-Link. which caused many of them to At the 21st "Annie Awards", go off line for at least a week. On [June 23] 1986, Q-Link honoring outstanding debuted the first massively “This will do for the Internet, achievements in the animation multiplayer online role-playing what Tiananmen Square did for field, the best commercial award game, Habitat, later renamed the fax machine”, read one of the went to a computer-generated "Club Caribe". On [Nov 00] 1988, Intervasion flyers, distributed series of ads for the first time: to it began the first online story via e-mail of course. Coca Cola’s “Polar Bears”, made serial. by Sierra Hotel Productions. A quieter form of protest In [May 20] 1988, Q-Link and occurred on one of the tracks on The first ad in the series, Apple launched the "AppleLink Orbital’s “Are We Here?” EP, “Northern Lights,” debuted in Personal Edition" service, and entitled “Criminal Justice Bill?”. February during the Academy Q-Link and Tandy released the It consisted of four minutes of Awards telecast. It was similar PC-Link in August 1988 silence. produced by Ken Stewart, who for IBM-compatibles. At this enlisted the help of Los Angeles- For more online activism, see point, Q-Link had effectively based "Rhythm & Hues" to [Jan 18], [April 10], [Oct 4]. cornered the home computer create the animation. online services market. Todd Shifflett, the visual effects After Q-Link parted ways with supervisor, said: “Our most Apple, it changed its name to US vs. Microsoft powerful computers could America Online (AOL) on [Oct 2] barely render all of the 1989, and began to grow even Findings polygons, so we used lots of little bigger. technical tricks to pull it off and Nov. 5, 1999 make the bears look furry Prev: [May 18] Next: [April 3] without being able to actually No Microsoft FUD render fur.” In the case of US v. Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Coca-Cola’s association with Nov. 5, 1990 issued his findings. polar bears dates back to a print Microsoft Vice President Brad advertisement which first Silverberg published an open appeared in France in 1922. letter in PC Week magazine denying that Microsoft had ever engaged in "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt" (FUD [Nov 16]), UK Intervasion disinformation tactics, or had Nov. 5, 1994 stolen features from other DOS systems. Silverberg wrote, “The The “Intervasion of the UK” was feature enhancements of MS- the first use of the Internet as a DOS version 5.0 were decided, weapon of civil disobedience. and development was begun, (Coincidentally, this day is also long before we heard about DR "Guy Fawkes Night" in the UK.) DOS 5.0.” It was triggered by the passing Bill Gates giving his deposition MS-DOS 5.0 [Aug 12] had been of the UK Criminal Justice and during US vs. Microsoft (Aug, 27. announced in May 1990 at the Public Order Act on Nov. 3, 1998). Photo by the US same time that DR DOS version which sought (amongst many Department of Justice. 5.0 (from Gary Kildall’s [May 19] other things) to outlaw illegal Digital Research) was released. outdoor dance festivals (raves). In the two hundred page MS-DOS 5.0 was eventually The offending music was defined document, Jackson ruled that released in June 1991. as “wholly or predominantly Microsoft had indeed obtained characterized by the emission of monopolistic control over the PC On [April 17] 1992, the so-called a succession of repetitive beats”. OS market, and had engaged in AARD code was discovered in a anti-competitive behavior. The pre-release version of Windows The protest was organized by a court papers also characterized 3.1 [April 6]. It was designed to group called "The Zippies" from Bill Gates' [Oct 28]testimony as return a non-fatal error message San Francisco’s "181 Club". “bizarre” and “not credible.” if it detected a non-Microsoft “Zippies” stands for ““Zen DOS running beneath it. inspired pronoia professionals,” Jackson’s conclusions and and was coined by Jules remedy wouldn’t appear until Marshall in an article in the May [April 3] of the next year, which 1994 issue of Wired magazine was coincidentally after Gates [Jan 2]. had stepped down as CEO. He 2 had transitioned into the newly A later entry in the series, Android 11 was formerly created role of “chief software "Modern Warfare 3," sold 8.8 released on Sept. 8, 2020, and architect.” [Jan 13]. million copies in its first month Android VP of engineering Dave alone, becoming the fastest Burke revealed that its internal selling game of all time. The codename was “Red Velvet previous record holder was Cake” Linux Attacked another game in the series, "Call Nov. 5, 2003 of Duty: Black Ops". In 2003, the Linux kernel's source code was safely stored in BitKeeper, and a second copy Android was held in CVS. (BitKeeper and Nov. 5, 2007 CVS are version control systems.) Google launched Android version 1.0 beta during an event On this day, Larry McVoy marking the formation of the noticed that there had been a "Open Handset Alliance".