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Netscape Created Navio to Compete with Microsoft

Netscape Created Navio to Compete with Microsoft

1996

Netscape Communications Corp. announced it had created a software company to enter an alliance with IBM, Oracle, and four Japanese electronics companies: Sony, Nintendo, Sega, and NEC. The new company, Navio Corp., is intended to compete with Microsoft Corp. in creating a new operating system.

First Spacecraft Entered Interstellar Space

First Spacecraft Entered Interstellar Space

2012

NASA’s Voyager 1, which was launched on September 5, 1977, left the heliosphere — the part of space that is influenced by our Sun — on this day. In February 1990, the spacecraft took the first overview picture of the solar system. It is the most distant man-made object in space.

First Installment of the Great Moon Hoax Published

First Installment of the Great Moon Hoax Published

1835

The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835" was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.

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