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Some dates to remember

  • 30-01-2001 3:11pm
    #1
    Hobbes
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    January 7th, 1980
    "Space Invaders" debuts on Atari 2600. Programmer Rick Mauer earns only $11,000 for the game, which grosses over $100 million

    April 5th, 1982
    "PacMan" debuts on Atari 2600. Programmer Tod Frye earns $1 million for the pathetic game, which, along with "E.T.", hastens the crash of the video game industry

    January 5th, 1904
    Lizzie Magie patents "The Landlord's Game", which satirizes the evils of capitalism. It is later copied by Charles Darrow and sold to Parker Brothers as "Monopoly"

    June 10th, 1848
    "The "California Star" newspaper states that entire towns are being “drained of human beings” as people rush to the gold fields.

    June 13th, 1848
    The “California Star" publishes last newpaper, as the entire staff flees to the gold fields the following day.

    June 14th, 2000
    Stanford Physics professor Sebastian Doniach publishes a lament that the “dotcom goldrush” is draining the top talent away from careers in academia.

    May 2nd, 1999
    A fuzzy bag of beans called "Peanut, the Royal Blue Elephant" sells for $4,200 at an online auction

    October 25th, 1999
    A zero-revenue online greeting card company called "Blue Mountain" sells for $780,000,000 to Excite

    February 21st, 1995
    After single-handedly destroying the 232-year old Barings Bank, 28-year old trader Nick Leeson flees, leaving a note that reads, "I'm sorry"

    April 7th, 1999
    Value America goes public. Founder Craig Winn, briefly a paper billionaire, begins openly discussing a run for President in 2008.

    May 17th, 2000
    DEN implodes. The cruel layoffs spare no one, not even the personal assistant hired to watch the founder’s Ferrari.

    March 3rd, 1939
    Students at Harvard introduce the world to the joys of goldfish swallowing - 40 years later, they introduce the joys of lightbulb eating.

    March 25th, 1972
    America’s single “Horse with No Name” reaches #1, despite the lyric, “'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain”

    May 15, 1998
    Despair Inc. spends $50,000 to unveil Demotivators® at NY's National Stationery Show only to sell $3,000 worth of product.


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