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From the vault This day in tech history, November 14

  1. 1943

    Peter Norton is born

    Born in Aberdeen, Washington, he made his name with tools that recovered erased files from DOS disks, gathered them into the Norton Utilities, and sold Peter Norton Computing to Symantec in 1990, which kept his name on its software for more than a decade.

  2. 1969

    Lightning strikes Apollo 12 on the way up

    Bolts hit at 36.5 and 52 seconds into flight and knocked all three fuel cells offline, until EECOM John Aaron told Flight Director Gerry Griffin to "try SCE to Aux" and the data came back.

  3. 1971

    Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet

    A 915.6-second engine burn put it around Mars just ahead of the Soviet Mars 2, and it went on to send back 7,329 photos covering 85% of the surface, including Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris.

  4. 2018

    Video Game History: Fallout 76 comes out

    Bethesda launched it worldwide on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC at $59.99, set across six regions of West Virginia where every other human survivor you meet is a real person.

Then and now

1996: A month of unlimited internet: $19.95 on AOL dial-up. Today: $70 for a gigabit from Google Fiber. Google Fiber's 8 Gig plan is $150 a month, October 2026.

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