[today in history] July 18: Intel was founded; The first photo was posted on the world wide web; EBay spins off PayPal

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It's today 2022 year 7 month 18 Japan , stay 2002 Years of today ,Perl 5.8 Release . from 5.8 rise ,Perl Almost every year .Perl 5.8 Improved Unicode Support , Add a new I/O Realization , Added a new thread implementation , Improved numerical accuracy , And added several new modules . By 2013 year , This version is still the most popular Perl edition , By Red Hat 5、Suse 10、Solaris 10、HP-UX 11.31 and AIX 5 Use . Review the history of computers 7 month 18 Japan , What other key events have happened on this day ？

1968 year 7 month 18 Japan ： Intel founded

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Intel （Intel Corporation） It is the second largest semiconductor company in the world , It is also the first to launch x86 Companies that build central processing units , Headquartered in Santa Clara, California . Robert · Noyce 、 Gordon · Mole 、 Andy · Grove , With “ Integrated electronics ”（Integrated Electronics） In the name of 1968 year 7 month 18 Co founded the company on the th , Combine high-end chip design capabilities with manufacturing capabilities that lead the industry . Intel also develops motherboard chipsets 、 network card 、 Flash memory 、 Drawing chip 、 Embedded processor , Products related to communication and Computing .“Intel Inside” Advertising slogans and Pentium Series processors are in 1990 During the s, it successfully launched the brand name of Intel .

Intel was developing SRAM And DRAM Memory chip , stay 1990 Before the s, these memory chips were Intel's main business . stay 1990 Chronology , Intel has made considerable investment in the design of new microprocessors and the cultivation of fast-growing PC Industry . During this period, Intel became PC Microprocessor supply leader , And market positioning has considerable offensive and sometimes controversial marketing strategies , It's like Microsoft dominates PC The development direction of industry . and Millward Brown Optimor Published 2007 The ranking of the world's most powerful brands in shows that Intel's brand value has increased from 15 The name fell 10 Ranking to 25 name . The main competitors are Apple、AMD、NVIDIA、 Samsung Electronics and TSMC.

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1992 year 7 month 18 Japan ： The first picture was posted on the World Wide Web

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1992 year 7 month 18 Japan , The first picture was posted on the World Wide Web . It is generally believed , This one is named Les Horribles Cernettes Is the first photo uploaded to the World Wide Web , It is also a well-known one . The four women in this photo are Berners － Li work CERN The women's band in the Laboratory , Shot by R & D Engineer Silvano . berners － After Li developed a world wide web version that supports photos , Take this picture of the band and test it .

1990 year , A physicist at CERN will 《 Alice in wonderland 》 Adapted as a fable of quantum mechanics , Overturned gender and scientific stereotypes . Not long before that , The famous European nuclear research organization is conducting another similar experiment ： Let a British model and actor Michelle · Muller （Michele Muller）, At CERN （CERN） In a virtual reality project of 3D Graphic designer . at that time , She is working with CERN Computer scientist Silvano · Virtue · gennaro （Silvano de Gennaro） Appointment , She found herself frustrated with her boyfriend's seemingly endless changes . They didn't quarrel about it , But decided to have some fun at the crux of the relationship —— Michelle wrote her depression into the song , Let Silvano write some music , And she will be at CERN Hardronic Perform at the music festival .

That's it ,《 The collider 》（Collider） This song was born —— This song is about the lover of a scientist , A humorous tribute to lonely nights and dangers . This song is very popular , So that muller can recruit several female friends , Set up the Les Horribles Cernettes Band ; They call themselves “ The only high-energy rock band ”, Be dressed in 60 Fashion of the age , Singing about the collider 、 quarks 、 liquid nitrogen 、 Love song of microwave and antimatter . Tim, the father of the World Wide Web · berners · Li was working at CERN , Interested in what these girls do . berners - Li asked for some scanned photos of the band , On the World Wide Web he just invented —— And this , Is the first picture of the World Wide Web .

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2015 year 7 month 18 Japan ：eBay Spin off PayPal

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2015 year 6 month 27 Japan eBay The board of directors agreed to split PayPal list , hold eBay Investors in shares , per share eBay Common stock will be available 1 stocks PayPal common stock . these PayPal The stock will be in 7 month 17 Issued daily , and PayPal The stock will be in 7 month 20 Day by day PYPL The stock code of is listed on the NASDAQ Exchange .2015 year 7 month 18 Japan ,eBay And PayPal Officially parted ways ,PayPal Listed on the Nasdaq stock market as an independent company . This can be regarded as the most significant spin off in the field of science and technology in the past decade .

First return time to 2002 year ,PayPal Passed in that year IPO list . Later that year , It becomes eBay Wholly owned subsidiary of , value 15 Billion dollars .PayPal Become the majority immediately eBay The default payment method used by users , Participate in a new round of competition in the mobile payment market .2005 year ,PayPal Acquired VeriSign Payment solutions , To provide additional security support , To 2007 end of the year , The company created 18 Hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue . By 2012 end of the year ,PayPal The total payment processed is 1450 Billion dollars , Occupy eBay Of income 40%,2012 Reached in the third quarter of 13.7 Billion dollars .

PayPal In the midst of growth , But it caused more people's anxiety .2014 year 9 month 30 Japan ,eBay Announced that it would PayPal Spin off into an independent listed company , This is Carl, the radical hedge fund giant · Icahn is 2013 Requirements put forward in . A year ago. , Icahn launched action , Call for this split . However ,eBay The management and the board did not accept Icahn's proposal . But after a year ,eBay The board said , Due to the rapid changes in the business and payment markets , They are 2014 year 9 Month changed his attitude , Decide to spin off the company .

front eBay CEO John · Donohue （John Donahoe） Once said , take eBay and PayPal Bundling together is no longer economically reasonable . And this has become the main reason for this spin off ：PayPal No longer willing to rely on others .eBay And also PayPal Reached 5 Term agreement , This will ensure that after the spin off PayPal Have a reliable source of income . According to this Agreement ,PayPal It can be done with eBay Competitors and other financial companies , Even technology companies that want to provide payment services （ Such as Google and apple ） Expand cooperation .

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