and Irving Gould [Sept 26], set up at http://www.1010.org/, Commodore’s board chairman, but that’s long gone. However, Oct. 10th suddenly fell apart, and Tramiel there are screenshots of it at abruptedly quit the company he https://www.media.mit.edu/ev had founded [Jan 16]. ents/1010/1010_intro.html Commodore Gould and Medhi Ali, The Media Lab was founded by Oct. 10, 1958 Commodore’s managing director Nicholas Negroponte [Dec 1] from 1989, made a series of and MIT's then-president, In 1953, taxi driver business mistakes, including the Jerome Wiesner. Negroponte [Dec 13] bought a shop in the mis-marketing of the was director until 2000, Bronx where he could repair 1000 [July 23], and Commodore followed by Walter Bender office machinery, and named it went out of business in April (2000–2006), Frank Moss "Commodore Portable 1994. (2006–2011), and Joi Ito (2011- Typewriter". The story goes that 2019). Currently the directorial Tramiel wanted a military-style position is vacant. name, but Admiral and General were already taken. CSS On this day, he incorporated the company, and in Feb. 1962 Oct. 10, 1994 changed the name to "Commodore Business Håkon Wium Lie presented Machines" to reflect his move “Cascading HTML style sheets into adding machines, and later – a proposal” at the “Mosaic calculators. However, things and the Web” conference. started looking bleak in 1975 Several other style sheet when Texas Instruments [Oct 1], languages were proposed at the main supplier of calculator around the same time, parts, entered the market including Bert Bos’ Stream- directly by releasing a line of based Style Sheet Proposal machines priced less than (SSP), and Lie and Bos began Commodore’s costs for parts. working together to develop the Screenshot of "A Day in the Life Tramiel decided that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) of Cyberspace", MIT Media Lab. Commodore could only compete standard, which they released in 2019. by integrating vertically 1995. The ‘H’ was missing from downward into the calculator the name because CSS could be chip business. He bought MOS applied to other languages Neil Gershenfeld, from the Technology [Sept 9], making besides HTML. Information and Entertainment section, once explained the lab's sure that MOS's The CSS specification is guiding role to be: “a do tank, [Nov 25] joined Commodore as currently maintained by the not a think tank." head of engineering. World Wide Web Consortium Peddle convinced Tramiel that (W3C [Oct 1]). Past problems A strangely similar event called calculators were a dead end, and with browsers’ patchy adoption “24 Hours in Cyberspace” was that they should turn their of CSS has led to the W3C organized at around the same attention to home computers. revising the standard a few time ([Feb 8] 1996) by The results were the wildly times. CSS4 is currently split into photographer Rick Smolan. successful Commodore PET over 50 modules. Smolan had been involved with 2001 [April 15], the VIC-20 [May “A Day in the Life of Cyberspace” 00], and the [Jan as a consultant for nearly five 7]. months before resigning after A Day in the Life of saying that there wasn't enough In 1983, Tramiel cut the prices time to do the job right. of the VIC-20 and Commodore Cyberspace

64 dramatically in an aggressive Oct. 10, 1995 bid for market share, starting what would later be called the MIT's Media Lab set out to Taliban Virus “home computers war”. But chronicle today's Web through Commodore was in a good its “A Day in the Life of Oct. 10, 2001 position to win, with sales of $49 Cyberspace” project. The stated The Taliban virus was delivered million, making it one of the aim was to “create a mosaic of in an e-mail containing the world’s largest PC life at the dawn of the digital following message: manufacturers. revolution that is transforming our planet,” and also to celebrate DEAR RECEIVER Unfortunately, the working the Media Lab’s tenth relationship between Tramiel anniversary. The website was

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You have just received a Taliban The game was not an adaptation It first opened as a museum on virus. Since we are not so of the 1983 “Scarface” film this day in 1925, and was one of technologically advanced in directed by Brian De Palma, but the world’s busiest tourist Afghanistan, this is a MANUAL a pseudo-sequel. However, destinations (until COVID-19 virus. Please delete all the files Oliver Stone, the movie’s struck), limiting daily visitors on your hard disk yourself and screenwriter, had been asked if numbers to 80,000. send this mail to everyone you he wanted to work on the know. game's script. When Stone declined, Radical Entertainment Thank you very much for approached David McKenna, Dart helping me. writer of “American History X” Oct. 10, 2011 Talibanian hacker (1998) and “Blow” (2001). McKenna later said of the The Dart language was unveiled It is similar in style (and humor) experience: “It was a pain in the at the GOTO conference in to the Amish (June 13, 2001) ass! I didn’t know what I was Aarhus, Denmark by its and County Kerry (June 30, getting myself into.” designers, Lars Bak and Kasper 2000) viruses. Lund from Google.

Dart is object-oriented with a C# Forbidden City like syntax [July 15] which can VK Launched be translated down into Oct. 10, 2006 Online JavaScript [July 4] so it can run Oct. 10, 2008 inside web browsers (in a VK (Russian: ВКонта́кте, similar way to Microsoft’s meaning InContact) is one of the IBM launched an online TypeScript [Dec 2] and Jeremy largest European social interactive virtual model of Ashkenas’ CoffeeScript [Dec networking service, and is China’s Forbidden City. A user 24]). It also includes Flutter, a UI especially popular among could choose an avatar, dress up framework for building iOS and Russian speakers. As of April in period robes, take tours, play Android applications. 2020, VK had nearly 600 million Go, learn cricket fighting, and try Both the Google AdWords [Oct user accounts. out archery. Sadly the site now 23] and AdSense [June 18] appears to be defunct, but there Founder Pavel Durov was teams (which drive most of dismissed as CEO in April 2014 is a making-of video on Youtube. Google’s revenue) use Dart to after he was not allowed to write their web apps. retract a prank (according to him) April Fools letter of resignation. Durov later claimed that VK had been taken over by allies of Vladimir Putin. On Sept. 16, 2014, Mail.ru, a Russian Internet company, bought the remaining 48% stake of VK, becoming its sole proprietor. Screenshot of “The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time”, mobygames.com, Contributed by Most Profane Sciere. Game Released It was the result of a three year, Oct. 10, 2006 $3 million, collaboration between IBM and the Palace The Guinness World Records Museum (the Chinese named “Scarface: The World is government branch in charge of Yours” as the video game with the Forbidden City). The model the greatest number of instances was built using the Torque of the ‘f-word’: 5,688 times gaming platform from Garage throughout its 31,000 lines of Games. dialogue. Despite this the game was a commercial success, Although the palace was built in selling over one and a half the early 15th century by the million units. Ming Dynasty, the virtual version was based on the Forbidden City as it exists today.

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