Weird TechOct 28eBay's First Sale Was Pierre Omidyar's Broken $30 Laser Pointer, and a Buyer Paid $14.83 for It
SoftwareOct 28Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Was Taught by Nobody: The Software Toolworks Invented Her and Paid a Model $500 for the Face
RetroOct 28Space Invaders Speeds Up as You Win Because Its 1978 Code Moved One Alien at a Time, and Tomohiro Nishikado Kept It
RetroOct 28The Trojan Room Coffee Pot: The First Famous Webcam Existed So Cambridge Scientists Wouldn't Climb Stairs for an Empty Pot
InfrastructureOct 28Wi-Fi Grew Out of CSIRO Radio Astronomer John O'Sullivan's Search for Exploding Black Holes
