Despite being founded just three years prior, Intel rocked the tech world with the 4004 microprocessor, a complete general-purpose CPU on a single chip that allowed small machines to perform the same calculations as much larger systems.
Just four engineers are credited with the majority of its development, which formed the base of what eventually became the first personal computers.
Divers found the 20-foot section bearing Challenger’s distinctive tiles on Thursday. The space shuttle exploded shortly after launch in 1986.
“This discovery gives us an opportunity to pause once again, to uplift the legacies of the seven pioneers we lost, and to reflect on how this tragedy changed us,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
The Birkenstocks belonging to the late Apple CEO were saved from a garbage heap and are now expected to fetch anywhere from $60,000 to $80,000 when they hit auction this Friday (via Gizmodo.)
The top bidder will also get an NFT of the sandals, as if winning wasn’t punishment enough.
