25 December 1959 the company Sony released the world’s first portable TV TV8-301. This model is also marked by a complete rejection of the construction of the projection TV in favor of the transition to solid-state semiconductor technology. That is, the miniaturization of TV chips have been far from the modern standards, and the most cumbersome part in the design of the transistor TV was the kinescope. TV is powered by two 6-volt batteries or network.
The world’s first portable TV Sony TV8-301
eight-TV weighed 4 kg and, due to the novelty of the design, the Japanese vaunted reliability is not yet characterized. Yes, and the exorbitant cost $ 249.95, which by today’s standards comparable to $ 2,000 (or 140 thousand rubles, if you like). Even by the Japanese would have to run for 5 consecutive months to buy this TV.
But this model has set the fashion to television at a time when the vast majority of customers satisfied with radio, and changed the design of the TV, which previously weighed at least 30 kg disguised piece of furniture.
TV Advertising Sony TV8-301
From this moment, Sony earned a reputation as a leading manufacturer of electronics and in 1968 released a color TV KV-1310 of the acclaimed series Trinitron.
December 25, 1968 the crew of the spaceship “Apollo 8″ has gone on Earth after the first expeditions to the moon. During the 4 days of the expedition, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders flew 350 thousand kilometers to the satellite of the Earth, came under the effects of radiation and reached the lunar orbit.
Later, the crew admitted that During the expedition, they are more impressed even the Moon (which turned out to be a desert dotted with craters), and is open from its orbit views the Earth – before mankind has never left the gravitational field of the planet.
The crew of the spaceship “Apollo 8»
«Apollo 8″ as much as 10 times circled the moon (each round took 2 hours each time) and all this time, the astronauts conducted radio and TV broadcasts, they had seen pictures of the surface, it was described in detail and made the first color image of the Earth from another planet.
View of the Earth through the eyes of the crew of “Apollo-8»
The final broadcast of “Apollo 8″ held December 25 at the ninth turn of the Moon. Astronauts share their impressions about what they saw during the expedition and congratulated earthlings with the upcoming holidays. “On behalf of the crew of” Apollo-8 “we go with the words good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless you all, God, all of you on this good Earth” – wished viewers broadcast in 30 countries Frank Borman before the spacecraft flew over the back side of Earth’s satellite. The return flight took 2.5 days for which the crew conducted for viewers a tour of the cabin.
December 25, 2005 the English-speaking Internet users for the first time in a minority in comparison with other languages. Analytical agency Byte Level Research reported that the number of English-speaking visitors worldwide network of only 30% of internet users in the world. By 2010, analysts predicted that the number of “Anglophones” will be reduced to 25% due to the growth of Internet users in Russia, China and Brazil.
«English, of course, not to lose its importance for Internet users, but now we can definitely say that the further development of the network will go at the expense of the Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese, “- said the head of the agency, John Yunker.
The Russian language is becoming more popular in the worldwide web
The Russian language already acquired an impressive share of the global online arena according to a study W3Techs, he pulls into second (after English) in popularity on the Internet. Next comes the German, Spanish, French and Chinese.
Such popularity is quite natural, because the territory of the former Soviet Union the Russian language holds unconditional leadership on the prevalence of: one of the leaders on the Russian-speaking sites include Ukraine (79.0% ), Belarus (86.9%), Kazakhstan (84.0%), Uzbekistan (79.6%), Kyrgyzstan (75.9%) and Tajikistan (81,8%).
True it is worth noting that such statistics applies only to readers of the global web, but filling Russian-language website and English speaking attendance still have something to strive for – Russian-language resources occupy only the 6th most popular in the world.
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