The subject of today's birthday-bash Google Doodle, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, made the invisible visible, established one of the metrics we use to measure musical pitch, computer processing speed, radar and Wi-Fi, and was sadly struck down by an incurable disease that destroyed his organs, ending his life at just 36. He would have been 155 today.
Has it been 25 years already? Jump in the Wayback Machine and check out this TIME article that details the first ever PC virus.
Dot-com, you’ve grown up so fast! Seems like only yesterday you were just an innocent top-level domain running around the kitchen in your diapers. We knew you’d turn into something special, though, no doubt about it.
