Published on July 15, 2024
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Historic Tech Events
Twitter, a social media platform that enables users to post and interact with short messages called "tweets," was launched. The service was created by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.
Nintendo released the Family Computer (Famicom) gaming console in Japan, which later became known as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in other countries.
The Code Red (WORM) virus was first detected on the internet. This virus targeted websites running on Microsoft's IIS web server and defaced websites with the message "Hacked By Chinese!, affecting over 250,000 sites before a patch was released.
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