Tech history

1. On May 3, 1978, the first widely recognized unsolicited bulk commercial email, later known as spam, was sent over […]

1. On May 2, 2000, the United States government discontinued “Selective Availability,” granting civilian GPS users worldwide access to the

Here are significant technology-related events that occurred on May 1st: 1. The first widely recognized unsolicited commercial email message (SPAM)

1. J.J. Thomson announced his discovery of the electron to the Royal Institution in 1897. This fundamental finding revolutionized physics

1. On this date in 1882, Werner von Siemens demonstrated the “Elektromote” near Berlin, widely considered the world’s first experimental

1. On this day in 2001, Dennis Tito launched aboard Soyuz TM-32 to the International Space Station, becoming the world’s

1. On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their seminal paper in the journal *Nature* describing the

1. On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery. This observatory