Science & Technology
Launches and breakthroughs across mobile, the web, cryptocurrency, and big science that defined the technology of 2008.
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Netflix Expands Streaming to Xbox 360
Netflix dramatically expanded its streaming video service on November 19, 2008, when it launched ...
Bitcoin Whitepaper Published
On October 31, 2008, at 18:10 UTC, a person or group using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto posted ...
Rhythm Games Reach Peak: Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock ...
Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2 captivated millions in 2008, generating $1.7 billion in co...
Chandrayaan-1 — India's First Lunar Mission
On October 22, 2008, India launched Chandrayaan-1, its first mission to the Moon, whose NASA-buil...
2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — Green Fluorescent Protein
On October 8, 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, ...
2008 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Symmetry Discoveries
Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics fo...
2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine Honors HIV Discovery and Can...
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognized Harald zur Hausen's discovery linking h...
SpaceX Falcon 1 First Orbital Launch
On September 28, 2008, at 23:15 UTC, SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket lifted off from Omelek Island in th...
HTC Dream and the Launch of Android
On September 23, 2008, HTC and the carrier T-Mobile announced the HTC Dream, the first commercial...
Large Hadron Collider First Beam
On September 10, 2008, at 10:28 AM local time, CERN successfully circulated the first proton beam...
Google Chrome Browser Launch
Google released the beta version of Chrome, its web browser, on September 2, 2008, after the laun...
iPhone 3G Launch
Apple released the iPhone 3G on July 11, introducing faster 3G cellular connectivity, lower prici...
Apple App Store Launch
On July 10, 2008, Apple opened the App Store, a digital distribution platform that let owners of ...
Metal Gear Solid 4 – Guns of the Patriots
Kojima Productions released Metal Gear Solid 4 – Guns of the Patriots on June 12, 2008 as a PlayS...
Phoenix Mars Lander
On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft touched down in the northern arctic plains of Mars, be...
Grand Theft Auto IV
Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto IV on April 29, 2008 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, set...
Hulu Launch
NBC Universal and Fox publicly launched Hulu on March 12, 2008, a web-based video streaming servi...