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Hulu, an online streaming service for TV/movies, launches for public access in the United States. [33] 2009 January Products Google discontinues the ability to upload videos to Google Video. [34] 2009 November Technology Apple first introduces HLS (HTTP Live Streaming), an HTTP-based adaptive bitrate streaming communications protocol. [35] 2010 ...
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . [ 1 ]
The Broadway Melody, first ever musical film. Also the first sound film and first musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Happy Days is the first feature film to be shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. It was filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. [50] Glorifying the American Girl, the first film with sound to swear.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) Enemy of the State (1998) Lost in Space (1998) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) Bicentennial Man (1999) The Matrix (1999) The Thirteenth Floor (1999) Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) Virus (1999) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) How to Make a Monster (2001) Swordfish (2001) S1M0NE (2002) Star Trek: Nemesis ...
Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded on Eastman Kodak paper base photographic film using Le Prince's single-lens camera. In the 1930s, the Science Museum in London produced a photographic glass plate copy of 20 surviving frames from the original negative [6] before it was lost. The copied frames were later printed on 35 mm film.
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.