British scientist John A. Fleming is seen “scudding down Gower Street” in London, oblivious to all around him on his way to patent his idea for the first vacuum tube. This invention—improved a few years later by American inventor Lee De Forest and others—is considered to have been the beginning of electronics.
November 17, 1970
Douglas Engelbart receives a patent for his invention of the first computer mouse. Early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the device looking like a tail, resembling a mouse.
November 17, 1999
Slashdot, the “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters” website, reports: “There is a cool new tool out there called Napster that allows anyone to become a publicly accessible FTP site – tapping in to that huge resource of personal MP3 collections that everyone has, but have not been able to share… RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] should be scared out of their minds because users are not logged on permanently, so it’s hard to track them down to take legal action.” The RIAA filed a law suit against Napster on December 7, 1999 and, as a result, the service shut down in July 2001. For the full article click here
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