70 Billion Pixels Budapest: 360 degree panorama image
"The observation tower of János-hegy [the Elizabeth Lookout on János Hill is], the highest vantage point of Budapest with a 360 degree panorama, was an obvious location. It also allowed us to take on previous world records in both the 'highest definition image' and the 'largest spherical panorama' category. When contacted, the Council of District XII informed us on the upcoming anniversary of the tower. We agreed to cooperate in commemorating the September 2010 event by setting up new world records-give them our best shot if you please. ."
(360systems Ltd., 360world.eu)
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Interactive Google Doodle Celebrates Pac-Man's 30th
"Google transformed its ever-changing website logo into a game of Pac-Man on Friday to celebrate the game's impending 30th anniversary.
The company says that the widget, on the Google home page, is its first ever interactive, playable doodle. By pressing 'Insert Coin' where the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button usually appears, you can start the game up and control Pac-Man with the arrow keys.
Insert two 'coins' and two players can play simultaneously, controlling Ms. Pac-Man with the WASD keys.
Google says the doodle will stay active for 48 hours. Much like the original game, it has been programmed to glitch and end at the 256th screen.
On May 22, 1980, Namco put the first Pac-Man arcade machine on location test in Shibuya, Tokyo."
(Chris Kohler, Wired Magazine, 21 May 2010)
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15 March 2010: 25th anniversary of the first .com registration
"March 2010 will mark the 25th anniversary of the first .com registration. While we know that the first .com was assigned to symbolics.com on March 15, 1985, the genesis of .com is less clear. According to Craig Partridge, chief scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, the name for domains evolved as the system was created. At first, .cor was proposed as the domain name for corporations, but when the final version came out it was switched to .com.
It took some time for .com to take off. Two and a half years after the first registration, only 100 total .com domain name registrations existed. The early adopters included IBM, Intel, AT&T and Cisco. By 1992, there were still less than 15,000 .com domain names registered and the million-domain name mark wasn't crossed until 1997, well into the Internet boom. Then came the '.com boom', with nearly 20 million names registered in the next two years. The emergence of online businesses as well as early speculative activity fueled the rapid growth.
The burst of the 'bubble' cooled off the rapid growth for a short period, and since then .com has grown at a steady rate, with now more than 80 million domain names registered around the world. Yet, some of the most popular Web sites today were registered late into the .com era. Linkedin.com, for example, was registered in 2002 and flickr.com in 2003. Youtube.com wasn't registered until 2005."
(VeriSign, Inc.)
2). VeriSign, Inc. 'The Domain Name Industry Brief' Volume 7 - Issue 1 - February 2010
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