26 Aug 1843 year, the American inventor Charles Turner from Norwich (Connecticut) got a patent for the design of typewriters. And despite the fact that the device the man had not been released to the market, he is considered the inventor of the typewriter.
The typewriter of Charles Thurber
In the patent described “a machine for the manual printing with the keyboard and printed tape.” And the device first used rubber roller through which paper is fed and moved at a specified interval, allowing you to make uniform the spacing. The keyboard was located on a rotating ring, and the device outwardly had little in common with the later typewriters.
26 August 2004 year Half-Life 2 released in the format pre-load on Steam. Because this game was the first major release is actively promoted digital distribution service, Valve has decided to reduce the load on your servers this way.
Half-Life 2
Steam users can download the encrypted game files that are physically stored on hard disk, but could not be used. At the time of the official release of the content had to be unlocked via Steam and start the game immediately without slow load times. Pre-loading has been available for several weeks.
I should add that the offline publisher of Half-Life 2, Vivendi, tried to sue Valve for this course, however, the process ended in favor of Valve.
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26 August 2008 informed the audience of Facebook reached 100 million active users. About mark Zuckerberg announced on his Twitter account. It is worth noting that Facebook is not too eager to publish data on the size of your audience, and the results of studies for different markets is published by analytical company.
Mark Zuckerberg (don’t call)