Government Technology - September 2007 - (Page 27) 3 WAY BACK FACT In 1994, the dream of traveling by land from Paris to London was finally made possible. On May 6th, the 31-mile Channel Tunnel opened to the public amid global fanfare. Begun in 1987, the Chunnel plunges more than 130 feet below the sea floor and took seven years to complete. Every day, tunnel trains ferry people, cars and freight between Folkestone in the UK and Calais, France. Considered by many to be one of the greatest feats of modern engineering, the Chunnel was completed at a cost of approximately £9 billion. More than 10 million cubic yards of earth were excavated to make way for the Chunnel’s three undersea tubes. The Channel Tunnel represented the fulfillment of a concept first envisioned in 1751 by the Amiens Academy in France. One of the more surprising items uncovered when revisiting the August 1993 issue were three little words right smackdab on the cover: high definition TV. It would be years before the phrase approached anything close to commonplace. 4 1994 As 1993 gave to 1994, the In our October issue, we took at look at the battle for operating system supremacy. Back then the contenders included PowerOpen, OS/2, UNIX and Solaris among others. But even in those days, it was clear which would emerge the winner – you guessed it – DOS. Just kidding, it’s Windows. 5 reality of the Internet was setting in. Though quaint in retrospect, the Internet was, for many, truly mysterious. The Net was (and largely still is) a wild, uncensored digital frontier that government struggled to take advantage of. Over the coming years, Government Technology would strive to help government make the transition to an online existence, a challenge we continue to face today. 27 PHOTO BY KEIR GRAVIL News editor Brian Miller reported on another everyday technology we’ve all come to know and loathe. Miller told the story of New York City’s Stop Traffic Offenses Program, which was one of the first large-scale red light camera deployments in the country.
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