damage, but you cannot ensure Doom, surface caching in Quake success.” [June 22], and Carmack’s Reverse August 20th in Doom 3. A Carmack quote from that Johns Frederick period: “Story in a game is like a World Telegram story in a porn movie. It’s Aug. 20, 1911 (Jeff) Rulifson expected to be there, but it’s not that important.” The New York Times sent a Born: Aug. 20, 1941; commercial telegram around the Bellefontaine, Ohio world to see just how long it Rulifson led the team that would take. Its contents were implemented the oN-Line somewhat less than inspiring: System (NLS) at the “This message sent around the Augmentation Research Center world”; at least it didn't say at the Stanford Research "Test". Institute (SRI). NLS was It left the dispatch room on the designed by Douglas Engelbart 17th floor of the Times building [Jan 30], and became the first in NYC at 7 pm, and was relayed system to employ hypertext by 16 different operators, links, the mouse, raster-scan through San Francisco, video monitors, information Honolulu, Midway Island, organized by relevance, and screen windowing. Manila, Hong Kong, Saigon, John Carmack (2006). Photo Singapore, Madras, Bombay, Rulifson was SRI’s by Rob Fahey. CC BY-SA 2.0. Aden, Suez, Port Said, representative on the network Alexandria, Malta, Gibraltar, working group which began Lisbon, the Azores, and then construction of the ARPANET Carmack's love of pizza at id back to Times Square. The [Oct 29]; SRI was the recipient of Software meant that he would telegram was received by the that network's very first order a medium pepperoni pizza same operator who had sent it transmitted message (sent from almost every day. The deliveries off 16.5 minutes earlier. UCLA). were carried out by the same person for more than 15 years. This was neither the first round- At Xerox PARC [July 1], he the-world telegram message, worked on distributed office On August 7, 2013, Carmack nor the fastest [July 4], but it systems, and later started a joined Oculus VR [March 28] as was an accurate reflection of European lab for Sun their CTO. His involvement with communication speeds of the Microsystems [Feb 24]. both id Software and Oculus VR time. later led to some lawsuit problems [May 00]. John Carmack Carmack has repeatedly voiced Tom DeMarco his opposition to software Born: Aug. 20, 1970; patents [Aug 17], which he Born: Aug. 20, 1940; equates to “mugging someone” Roeland Park, Kansas Hazleton, Pennsylvania [Dec 21]. Carmack is a games DeMarco was one of the major programmer, virtual reality figures involved in the engineer, and rocketry development of structured enthusiast. Voyager Blast-Off analysis and design for software engineering in the 1970s. One He was the lead programmer at Aug. 20, 1977 milestone was the publication of id Software [Feb 1] and one of The deep space probe Voyager 2 his book, "Structured Analysis the company’s co-founders. He was launched on this day, and and System Specification" in Jan. programmed the game engine Voyager 1 sixteen days later on 1978. behind Doom [Dec 10], and most of the other id Software titles of Sept. 5. In the 1960s, DeMarco that time. The two craft were nearly participated in Bell Lab's ESS-1 identical, down to their three project to develop the first large He pioneered or popularized custom-built computers: the scale electronic switching several important game flight data subsystem, the system. Versions of ESS went on programming techniques, computer command subsystem to be installed in telephone including adaptive tile (CCS), and the attitude and offices all over the world. refreshing in "Commander Keen" [Dec 14], raycasting in articulation control subsystem. A DeMarco quote: “Computer "Wolfenstein 3D" [May 5], The CCS was an improved system analysis is like child- binary space partitioning in version of the one used in the rearing; you can do grievous 1 1970s Viking orbiters [July 20]. The headsets contained two LCD It was capable of executing screens, each with a resolution about 81,000 instructions per of 276x372, four speakers, and a second, and could transmit data microphone; each attendee back to Earth at a rate of 160 employed a joystick for bits per second. maneuverability. The VR gear was produced by a British company, Virtuality, which focused on the game arcades market. Virtuality was formed in 1985 by Jonathan D. Waldern, but was sadly a little ahead of its time [March 28], and was Voyager Space Probe. Photo by forced to sell the rights to its NASA. machines to CyberMind in 1997 after a dramatic slump in demand. Uncredibly, the software is still operational today, even though The first “Virtual” wedding the last of the original Voyager occurred some ten years before, engineers, Larry Zottarelli, on [Feb 14] 1983. retired in 2016. On Feb. 17, 1998, Voyage 1 overtook Pioneer 10 [March 2]. Google Doodle to become the human-made device farthest from Earth. On Aug. 20, 1998 Aug. 25, 2012, it became the first The first Google [Sept 27] object to enter interstellar space. Doodle honored the 1998 Each Voyager carries a gold- Burning Man Festival [March plated audio-visual disc in the 30]. Larry Page [March 26] and event that one of them is found Sergey Brin [Aug 21] put it by intelligent life. This may together to notify users of their occur in about 40,000 years absence in case the Google when Voyager 1 passes within servers crashed. 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese Subsequent doodles were 445. created by an outside contractor, until Page and Brin asked intern Dennis Hwang to First VR Wedding create a drawing for Bastille Day in 2000. From then on, doodles Aug. 20, 1994 became the remit of a team of about ten illustrators called Monika G. Liston, 25, and Hugh “Doodlers”. H. Jo, 33, were married in the world’s first Virtual Reality (VR) It wasn’t until Nov. 14 2001 that wedding. the first person was commemorated, Claude Monet, The couple (and a minister) drawn in the style of the climbed into "standing pods" at painter’s water lilies. As of 2019, the "CyberMind Virtual Reality over 1000 people had been Center" in San Francisco, featured. donned VR gear, and were married in the city of Atlantis A doodles archive is online at: (before it sank). Liston worked https://www.google.com/doo for CyberMind at the time. dles The bride arrived at the altar (actually a bridge) in a chariot pulled by two horses. After exchanging vows, fireworks filled the sky. 2 .