History would have been quite different with modern technology:
Genesis 3:6 Eve upsets God by buying an Apple computer from the snake.
322 BC- Alexander the Great's status on Facebook reads 'is the ruler of the freakin' world.'
400 BC- Socrates is banned from a Greek discussion board for corrupting the youth of Athens.
1274- Marco Polo discovers a land route to China using a GPS device.
1347- The Bubonic plague computer virus causes thousands of motherboards to crash.
1450- Johannes Gutenberg invents the ink-jet printer.
1492- Christopher Columbus edits the Wikipedia article on 'The Earth' to include the phrase 'is round.'
1597- William Shakespeare uploads a video of the performance of Romeo and Juliet onto YouTube.
1775- Paul Revere sends out a group message on Facebook to the group 'Boston militia': The British are coming.
1776- Thomas Jefferson (tj@monticello.gov) sends an angry e-mail to English King George (george3@buckingham.uk) with the subject line 'Declaration of Independence.'
1803- Lewis and Clark make a transcontinental road-trip in a Prius and pick-up a hitchhiker named Sacagawea.
1824- Beethoven's Ninth Symphony becomes a popular seller on iTunes.
1845- Irish Potato Chip Famine
1865- Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox chat room.
1876- Alexander Graham Bell sends his assistant a text message informing him that he just invented the telephone.
1903- Henry Ford begins to utilize the assembly line after reading about it on Wikipedia.
1917- The United States declares war on Germany following the discovery of the Zimmerman E-mail.
1937- Herbert Morrison leaves a comment on an article entitled Hindenburg Disaster: "Oh, the humanity."
1942- Anne Frank begins a blog titled The Blog of a Young Girl while in hiding in an attic in Amsterdam.
1969- Neil Armstrong tweets: 'This is 1 small step 4 man. 1 giant leap 4 mankind."
May 4, 2009
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1974 - Hank Aaron hits virtual homerun number 755 on GameTracker.
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