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From the vault This day in tech history, November 11

  1. 1917

    Timesharing pioneer Robert Fano is born

    Born in Turin, Italy, Fano went on to direct MIT's Project MAC, the lab that pushed timesharing and interactive computing, so many people could use one machine at once instead of waiting on batch jobs.

  2. 1966

    Gemini XII launches the final crewed Gemini mission

    Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin lifted off on the final crewed Gemini flight. Their four-day mission practiced rendezvous and docking, and included three extravehicular activities. Before Apollo could send astronauts to the Moon, crews needed to get working outside a spacecraft right.

  3. 2011

    Video Game History: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim comes out

    Bethesda released it worldwide for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 11/11/11, built on its new Creation Engine, with an open world you could roam while ignoring the main quest as long as you liked.

Then and now

1989: A handheld game screen: 160 x 144 pixels. Today: 1920 x 1080 pixels. The Game Boy's 2.6-inch reflective LCD showed 23,040 pixels in four shades of grey; the Switch 2's 7.9-inch color LCD shows 2,073,600, which is 90 times as many.

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