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2.94 Megabits per Second: The 1973 Memo That Wired the World<br>On May 22, 1973, a 26-year-old engineer named Robert Metcalfe sat down at an IBM Selectric typewriter at Xerox PARC. He tapped out a memo…
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Unplugged: The Console Launch That Needed a Rescue Mission<br>On May 21, 2013, Microsoft gathered the press on its Redmond campus to unveil the Xbox One. They spent most of the first hour talking about…
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Unplugged: How a Background Server Shut Down Millions of Nintendo Games<br>On May 20, 2014, a generation of Mario Kart racers, Pokémon battlers, and Animal Crossing neighbors lost their connection. Not because…
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$1.1 Billion for a Website They Promised Not to Screw Up<br>On May 19, 2013, Yahoo’s board approved a $1.1 billion cash check for a blogging platform built largely on fandoms, aesthetics, and adult…
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‘Cut Off Their Air Supply’ — The 1998 Trial That Ended the First Browser War<br>On May 18, 1998, Attorney General Janet Reno stood before cameras in Washington and accused Microsoft Corporation of using its monopoly…
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Unplugged: When 77 Million PlayStation Accounts Went Dark<br>On May 15, 2011, Sony began bringing the dead back to life. The PlayStation Network sign-in screen appeared for the first time in 23 days.
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The Internet’s Most Famous Scowl Went Quiet<br>On May 17, 2019, the family behind Grumpy Cat posted a small square of bad news to Instagram. Tardar Sauce, the cat with the face the…
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The Social Network That Invented Everything — and Vanished<br>In 1997, a New York attorney named Andrew Weinreich built a website where you could make a profile, list your friends, and send them…
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The Day a $10.69 Domain Name Stopped a Global Cyberattack<br>The most important domain registration in the history of cybersecurity cost £8.95. On May 12, 2017, Marcus Hutchins, a 22-year-old security…
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The Day Bethesda Pulled the Plug on Its Own Launcher<br>On May 11, 2022, a launcher that nobody loved finally stopped opening. The Bethesda.net client had spent six years sitting on taskbars…
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