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The Disk Drive is Born
Today in 1956, IBM introduced the disk drive. In 1953, Arthur J. Critchlow, a young member of IBM’s advanced technologies research lab in San Jose, California, was assigned the task of finding a better information storage medium than punch-cards. Visiting … Continue reading
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The first issue of the first daily newspaper in the U.S is published
Today in 1833, the first issue of the The New York Sun was published. Steven Lubar in InfoCulture: “New technology, in fact, came along after (italics mine) the renaissance of the newspaper. The New York Sun was the first ‘penny paper,’ featuring … Continue reading
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The First Node of the Internet Goes Live
45 years ago today (September 2, 1969), at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the first Interface Message Processor (IMP), built by BBN, is connected for the first time to its SDS Sigma-7 mainframe, thus establishing the first node of what will become the ARPANET … Continue reading
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World’s First Female Telephone Operator
Today in 1878, Emma Mills Nutt (1860–1915) became the world’s first female telephone operator on when she started working for the Boston Telephone Dispatch company in Boston, Massachusetts. Wikipedia: In January 1878 the Boston Telephone Dispatch company had started hiring boys as telephone … Continue reading
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Man Vs. Machine
“Computers will never rob man of his initiative or replace the need for his creative thinking. By freeing man from the more menial or repetitive forms of thinking, computers will actually increase the opportunities for the full use of human … Continue reading
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London Sounds, 1928
From the incredible London Sound Survey: THERE ARE NO BBC radio recordings surviving from before 1931, so the job of representing the 1920s falls to this curiosity from the Columbia Graphophone Company. It’s a 12” 78rpm disc made in 1928 … Continue reading
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“Silicon Valley” First Appeared in Print on January 10, 1971
“It was only by a quirk of fate, however, coupled by lack of management foresight, that Boston failed to become the major semiconductor center San Francisco is today.” Don Hoefler, “Silicon Valley, USA,” Electronic News, January 11, 1971 Source: Computer … Continue reading
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Claude Shannon and the Invention of Digital
The Man Who Turned Paper Into Pixels from Delve on Vimeo.
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The Internet is Coming to NPR
Source: “If We’d Only Known About The Impending Spam” HT: “Dawn of the Web: an oral history”
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