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Through “Today in History”, you can see the future from the past, and you can also change the future from the present.
Today is May 22, 2022. On this day in 1994, the well-known Chinese forum Shuguang BBS station was opened. On April 20, 1994, China’s first regional Internet network established between the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, and Tsinghua University was successfully connected to the Internet. Internet, this epoch-making product has taken root in China. On May 22 of the same year, as the first generation of Internet applications, BBS Shuguang Station was established at the National Intelligent Computer Research and Development Center of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is the first open network forum platform in China. Looking back on May 22 in the history of the Internet, what other key events happened on this day?
May 22, 1980: The famous game Pac-Man is released
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Pac-Man is an arcade game produced by Namco. Designed by Toru Iwatani of Namco, the game was originally released in Japan on May 22, 1980, and in the United States in October 1980 by Midway Games. The crepe with the missing corner was the inspiration for Toru Iwatani to create this game. Players need to control the protagonist of the game, Pac-Man, to eat all the beans hidden in the maze, and cannot be caught by the four-color ghosts. “Pac-Man” is one of the most classic games in history. It became popular all over the world in the 1980s and is considered to be one of the most classic arcade games. The image of the protagonist of the game, Pac-Man, has even become a popular cultural symbol, or A representative image of the video game industry. Its developer, Namco, also used the image as its mascot and company logo, which it still uses today.
At around 23:00 on May 21, 2010, Beijing time, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the game, the Google logo was changed to a picture of the game, and the online game can be played by clicking the Insert Coin button or waiting for ten seconds. Rather than using popular programs like Flash or Microsoft Silverlight, this game is made using HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript. Only the sound effects use Flash. When you click the Insert Coin button twice in a row, a doubles mode will appear, and each level has the same layout. The sound effects of the game are as realistic as the original, and in order to be faithful to the original, Google specially simulated the garbled screen that appeared due to the original game program error at level 256. The game was originally only placed on the traditional homepage for 48 hours. Because the game has a great influence and is well received, Google will The current homepage has been changed to a permanent version.
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May 22, 1990: Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
Windows 3.0 is the third major version of Microsoft Windows, released on May 22, 1990, and includes a significantly improved user interface as well as technical improvements to better take advantage of the memory management capabilities of the Intel 80286 and 80386 processors . Text-mode programs written for MS-DOS can run in a window, allowing the programs to be used on a multitasking basis. Although this version is designed for home users only, many games and entertainment programs still require DOS access. Windows 3.0 was the last version of the Windows operating system to support the Intel 8088 and 8086 processors. Both the Task Manager and icons originated in Windows 3.0.
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Windows 3.0 retains many of the simple applications that came with its predecessor, such as the text editor Notepad, the word processing program WordPad, the improved drawing program Paint, and the scientific calculator; Macros, or sequences of keystrokes and mouse movements, are then assigned to keys as shortcut keys to quickly perform complex functions. In addition, Windows 3.0 also added card games. Windows 3.0’s icons supported all 16 colors in EGA and VGA modes, while Windows 2.x had only a very limited palette for color menus, the rest was still not black and white. In addition, Windows 3.0 supports 256-color SVGA mode for the first time.
Windows 3.0 was the first version to be preinstalled on a hard drive by a PC compatible manufacturer. Previously, Zenith Data Systems shipped its own PCs with Windows 1.0 or later on a floppy disk, and early in the development of Windows 3.0, Zenith promised that Windows 3.0 would be pre-installed. In fact, the Zenith division has been pushing hard for Microsoft to develop a GUI, as Zenith competes directly with Apple in the education market. However, Zenith PCs can only run proprietary OEM versions of Windows because they use hard drives with 1024-byte sectors instead of the normal 512-byte, andAnd standard disk swap file applications cannot be used. Windows 3.0 sold 10 million copies before being replaced by Windows 3.1 in 1992.
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May 22, 1998: The well-known game engine Unreal (Unreal) and the game of the same name were born
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“Unreal” is a first-person shooter game developed by Epic Games using the game engine of the same name. It was released on May 22, 1998. After that, in the same time and space background, the sequel of Unreal was divided into two Two very different series: “Unreal II”, which continues the previous work, and “Unreal Tournament”, which focuses on multiplayer games. The Unreal Engine can be said to be the main rival of the Quake engine. At that time, the Unreal Engine was considered to be technically superior to both Quake and Quake II. Unreal uses a self-designed scripting language called: UnrealScript, which is convenient for the player community to develop plug-in modules. In addition, Unreal also includes a free level editor: UnrealEd.
Unreal Engine was primarily designed for the development of first-person shooter games, but it has been successfully used to develop many different types of games such as stealth games, fighting games, and role-playing games. The latest version is Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine 5 uses two core technologies, one is “Nanite”, which is an advanced technology that allows high-detail photography source materials to be imported into games, and can be used to process complex geometry in game scenes; The second is “Lumen”, which is used to solve the lighting details of the game. Epic has started offering previews in early 2021, with a full rollout in late 2021. “Fortnite” is the first game work to be integrated with Unreal Engine 5, and it has also become one of the first titles for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2020.
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May 22, 2007: Google Trends goes live
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Google Trends (Google Trends) is an analysis tool launched by Google based on search data, which was once called Google Insights for Search; Search data, telling users the frequency of a certain keyword or topic displayed in the Google search engine and its related statistics in various periods. Google Trends provides forecasts of future search trends for some items, and now it also offers a new feature that provides users with the HTML code of the search analysis of the item, so that users can embed the search analysis results of the item in their own web pages. It is worth noting that the analysis results of Google Trends are closely related to the order of keywords, and different positions of keywords will result in different results.
On May 22, 2007, Google Trends (Google Trends) was launched. At first, it was just a service to display search volume, and there were not so many data analysis and trend comparison charts. So on August 5, 2008, Google launched Google Insights for Search, a more sophisticated and advanced service that displays search trend data. On September 27, 2012, Google merged Insights for Google Search into a new version of Google Trends.
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