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What happened in history on this day: May 17?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1994 - Iran issues a 50 rial postage stamp for World Telecommunications Day, depicting a personal computer.
- 2000 - Number Nine Visual Technology ceases operations. The company sold most of its assets to S3 in 1999 duing bankruptcy reorganization.
- 2001 - The DVD+RW Alliance announces the addition of DVD+R write-once capabilities to the standard.
- 2002 - Indonesia issues a 1000 rupiah postage stamp for a telecommunications issue, depicting a computer screen and system tower.
- 2004 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US.
- A personal computer appears in a newspaper business: system unit, monitor, and keyboard.
- A laptop computer with external mouse is shown in a house, hooked up to the Internet, showing a Web page receiving "hate Spam".
- 2009 - Morocco issues a 7.80-dirham postage stamp depicting a computer keyboard and monitor.
Video Game history:
- 1989 - In New York, Tengen holds a reception for retailers, trade representatives, and press for the launch of the Tetris video game cartridge.
- 1990 - Lewis Galoob Toys seeks a court declaration that the Game Genie does not infringe on Nintendo's copyrights.
- 2001 - The Electronic Entertainment Expo is held in Los Angeles, California, over three days. Total attendance is 62,000. Microsoft unveils the Xbox video game system. Nintendo unveils the GameCube video game system.
- 2004 - J.C. Padilla scores 2,181,619,994,299,256,480 (2 quintillion) on Giga Wing 2 on the Dreamcast, setting a record for the highest score on any game.
- 2005 - Nintendo holds a press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The company reports that two billion software titles have been sold since Nintendo entered the video game industry. Nintendo announces its online strategy for the Nintendo DS: Wi-Fi Internet connectivity with partner GameSpy. The Game Boy Micro is unveiled, with lighted color display; size is 2 x 4 x 0.7 inches, weight is 2.8 ounces; this is the smallest cartridge-based video game system ever. Some details of the Revolution video game system: it features proprietary DVD-size disc and GameCube disc play, 512 MB flash memory, SecureDigital slot, wireless controllers, virtual console play of NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 games by download; a Wi-Fi network is planned.
- 2011 - Rockstar Games releases the L.A. Noire video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
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