article thumbnail

Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

And that was the problem that Cerf were contemplating that day in San Francisco in 1973, when he put pen to envelope. It was time to go commercial. Use of these networks was generally restricted to researchers and academics, with commercial activity, businesses, and the general public banned. universities. 1970 and Ph.D.

Google 145
article thumbnail

Can the Artemis Moon Mission Revive the Glamour of Big Tech?

Cars That Think

But when von Braun’s Apollo program came to fruition, in the late 1960s, huge crowds gathered every few months on the Florida coast to watch the thundering Saturn V rockets take off. It occurred around San Francisco Bay at the height of the Great Depression, 30 years before the Apollo landings. FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images.

article thumbnail

Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. April 18, 2009 1:40 am Link I drive a Saturn SL1 that has over 300K miles on it.

Volt 42