* 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the " Mercury Seven ".

He first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo !, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.

During the first 10 years of Lukashenko's presidency, most of the Belarusian media outlets ( newspapers, radio, television ) were brought under the control of the state.

This was first used by media company Slam Content.

" Ogan saw " media imperialism often described as a process whereby the United States and Western Europe produce most of the media products, make the first profits from domestic sales, and then market the products in Third World countries at costs considerably lower than those the countries would have to bear to produce similar products at home.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

Even though Dolly was not the first animal to be cloned, she gained this attention in the media because she was the first to be cloned from an adult cell.

Yahoo. com became the first major media company to offer games for free in 1999.

In the late 1970s, fiction that included a sexual relationship between two of the male characters of the media source ( first Kirk / Spock, then later Starsky / Hutch, Napoleon / Illya, and many others ) started to appear in zines.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

Outside the scope of media, railway enthusiasts are another early fandom with its roots in the late 19th century that began to gain in popularity and increasingly organize in the first decades of the early 20th century.

" He found out that the malicious connotations were present at MIT in 1963 already ( quoting The Tech, a MIT Student Magazine ) and then referred to unauthorized users of the telephone network, The Newsweek article appears to be the first use of the word hacker by the mainstream media in the pejorative sense.

The codec was first designed to be utilized in H. 324 based systems ( PSTN and other circuit-switched network videoconferencing and videotelephony ), but has since also found use in H. 323 ( RTP / IP-based videoconferencing ), H. 320 ( ISDN-based videoconferencing ), RTSP ( streaming media ) and SIP ( Internet conferencing ) solutions.

A classic example is the well-known " you have two cows " joke — after circulating in other media throughout the 1980s, it seems to have first appeared on the Internet in 1993 with simple descriptions of communism, capitalism, and socialism.

The first reason is the media increasingly reported cases of convicts committing crimes while still in, or after, treatment in a TBS-clinic.

The first milestones in the Japanese media history were newspapers in the Meiji period, the first being the Nagasaki Shipping List & Advertiser, founded 1861 in Nagasaki, with the telegraph and telephone following suit.

He was made Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1985, before being promoted to become Minister of State in the same department in 1986, first attracting national media attention over cold weather payments to the elderly in January 1987, when Britain was in the depths of a severe winter.

On the campaign trail, St-Laurent's image was developed into somewhat of a ' character ' and what is considered to be the first ' media image ' to be used in Canadian politics.

In November 2006, Lycos began to roll out applications centered around social media, including the first " watch and chat " video application with the launch of its Lycos Cinema platform.

The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, from whom it was adopted by others.

The first science fiction fanzine, The Comet, was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago and edited by Raymond A. Palmer and Walter Dennis.

Famously, the first version of Superman ( a bald-headed villain ) appeared in the third issue of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's 1933 fanzine Science Fiction.

Malcolm Willits and Jim Bradley started The Comic Collector's News, the first comics fanzine, in October, 1947.

In 1961, Jerry Bails ' Alter Ego, devoted to costumed heroes, became a focal point for superhero comics fandom and is thus sometimes mistakenly cited as the first comics fanzine.

( 1966 ) quickly moved from its fanzine roots to become one of the first rock music " prozines ," with paid advertisers and newsstand distribution.

The first association football fanzine is regarded as being Foul, a publication that ran between 1972 and 1976.

The longest running fanzine is The City Gent, produced by supporters of Bradford City FC, which first went on sale at Valley Parade in November 1984 and is now in its 26th season.

This London scene's first fanzine appeared a week later.

( An earlier fanzine, Nuts & Bolts of PBM, was the first publication to exclusively cover the hobby.

His first published story was " Hollerbochen's Dilemma ", which appeared in the fanzine Imagination!

The first science fiction fanzine, The Comet, was published in 1930.

The first Swedish science fiction fanzine was started in the early 1950s.

The first 12-page issue was produced as a fanzine for a local record label ' Anti-Pop records ' run by Arthur 2 Stroke and Andy ' Pop ' Inman, and went on sale for 20p ( 30p to students ) in The Gosforth Hotel Salters road, which hosted ' Anti-Pop ' punk gigs, and the run of 150 copies had sold out within hours.

The term was first coined in 1961 when the British author Michael Moorcock published a letter in the fanzine Amra, demanding a name for the sort of fantasy-adventure story written by Robert E. Howard.

* Charles Saunders ' Imaro novels, beginning with Imaro ( 1981 ), a collection of short stories first published in the seventies for Dark Fantasy fanzine.

The first science fiction fanzine, The Comet, was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago.

* The non-canon book The Best of Trek suggests that Uhura's first name is " Penda ", coined when a group of fanzine authors suggested it to her at an early convention.

Strategy & Tactics began life in 1966 as a wargaming fanzine published by Chris Wagner ( then a staff sergeant with the US Air Force in Japan ), at first in Japan, then moving to the United States with Wagner.

Their first publication was Backblast, a fanzine for Avalon Hill's wargame Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ).

The first issue was released in 1985, with a manifesto entitled " Don't Be Gay " published in the fanzine Maximum RocknRoll following soon after ; inspiring, among many other zines, Holy Titclamps, edited by Larry-bob, Homocore by Tom Jennings and Deke Nihilson, Donna Dresch's Chainsaw, and Outpunk by Matt Wobensmith, these last two later functioning as music labels.

Bath was the first rugby club to have its own supporters ' fanzine, Everytime Ref, Everytime!

Doctor Who: The Television Companion ( by Howe and Walker, BBC Publishing, 1998 ) quotes a contemporary review ( from a fanzine ) that describes the dinosaur special effects thus: " After escaping they Doctor and Sarah came up against the first dinosaur and, oh dear, shades of Basil Brush!

In 1929, Siegel published what might have been the first SF fanzine, Cosmic Stories, which he produced with a manual typewriter and advertised in the classified section of Science Wonder Stories.