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The Internet in the United States of America in turn provided the foundation for the worldwide Internet of today. Internet connections in the United States are largely provided by the private sector and are available in a variety of forms, using a variety of technologies, at a wide range of speeds and costs.
The first true digital camera was created in 1988, and the first were marketed in December 1989 in Japan and in 1990 in the United States. [33] By the early 2000s, digital cameras had eclipsed traditional film in popularity. Digital ink and paint was also invented in the late 1980s.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
HBO was the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network as well as the first television network intended for cable distribution on a regional or national basis; however, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980), as well ...
Rooted in earlier social science history work, particularly around the history of enslavement in the United States, early digital history in the 1960s and 70s focused on using computers to conduct quantitative analyses, primarily of demographic and social history data - censuses, election returns, city directories, and other tabular or countable data. - with the aim of producing defensible ...
One month after the transition, the number was 1.5 million, 1.3 percent, [118] and after nearly 2 months, the number was down to just over one million, or 1.1 percent. [119] As of August 30, 2009, the number was 710,000, as 572,000 had upgraded in August and 1.8 million since June 12.
First test DVB-T emission was carried in Warsaw at 9 November 2001. In April 2004, first DVB-T transmitter near Rzeszów started operation, and local TVP division started to market set-top boxes allowing to receive it. The shutdown of analog broadcasts took place in 7 steps from 7 November 2012 to 23 July 2013 when analog terrestrial ...
January 16, 2020 – The first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins in the U.S. Senate. January 21, 2020 – The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus. January 26, 2020 – Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter, Gianna, and 7 others, perish in a helicopter crash.