December 25, 1959, the company Sony has released the world’s first portable television, the TV8-301. This model also was marked by the complete refusal projection TV design in favor of a switch transistor in semiconductor technology. That is, the miniaturization of television circuits was far from modern standards, and the most cumbersome element in the design of a transistor TV was the picture tube. The TV had two 6-volt batteries or network.
The world’s first portable TV Sony TV8-301
An eight-inch TV weighed 4 kilograms and, due to the novelty of the design, the vaunted Japanese reliability still was no different. And the cost is an exorbitant $249.95, by today’s standards comparable with $2000 (or 140 thousand rubles, if you like). Even the Japanese themselves would have to work 5 months to buy this TV.
But this model has set the fashion on television in an era when the vast majority of buyers were content with the radio, and changed the design of television sets, which weighed at least 30 kg was disguised under a piece of furniture.
Advertising TV Sony TV8-301
From now on, Sony earned a reputation as a leading manufacturer of electronics and in 1968 released the color TV KV-1310 from the acclaimed series Trinitron.
25 December 1968, the crew of the spaceship “Apollo-8” went to the Ground after the first expedition to the moon. 4 days expedition astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders flew 350 thousand kilometers to the Earth, fell under the influence of radiation and come out on the lunar orbit.
Later, the crew admitted that during the expedition they were struck by even the Moon (which turned out to be the desert, dotted with craters), and opened with its orbit view of the Earth before humanity had never left the gravitational field of the planet.
The crew of the spaceship “Apollo-8”
“Apollo-8” as many as 10 times orbited the moon (each round took 2 hours) and all this time the launch was radio and television, photographed they have seen the surface, it has been described in detail and made the first color picture of Earth from another planet.
A view of the Earth through the eyes of the crew “Apollo-8”
The final broadcast of “Apollo-8” held on 25 December on the ninth orbit around the moon. The astronauts shared their impressions about what they saw during the expedition and congratulated the earthlings with the upcoming holidays. “And on behalf of the crew of “Apollo 8″ we’re leaving with the words good night, good luck, merry Christmas, and may God bless all of you God, all of you, on this good Earth,” wished the viewers of the broadcast in 30 countries Frank Borman, before the spacecraft flew out of the back side of the satellite. The return flight took 2.5 days for which the crew gave viewers a tour of the cabin.
December 25, 2005, the English-speaking Internet users for the first time found themselves in the minority in comparison with native speakers of another language. Analytical Agency of Byte Level Research reported that the number of English-speaking visitors of the global network is only 30% of Internet users in the world. By 2010, analysts predicted that the number of “anglophones” will be reduced to 25% due to the growth of Internet users in Russia, China and Brazil.
“English, of course, will not lose its significance for Internet users, but now we can definitely say that the further development of the network will go at the expense of Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese” — said the Agency’s chief Executive John Junker.
Russian language is becoming more popular in the world wide web
Russian language already acquired an impressive share of the global online arena: according to a W3Techs study, he was beaten into second place (after English) in popularity on the Internet. Next comes German, Spanish, French and Chinese.
Such popularity is quite natural, since in the countries of the former USSR Russian language retains its supremacy as the prevalence among the leaders on Russian-speaking sites include Ukraine (79.0 percent), Belarus (86,9%), Kazakhstan (84,0%), Uzbekistan (79,6%), Kyrgyzstan (75,9%) and Tajikistan (81,8%).
However, it should be noted that these statistics concern only the readers of the global web, but the content of Russian-speaking sites and their attendance English speaking still have something to strive for — Russian-language resources is only the 6th most popular place in the world.