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Earliest Surviving Motion Picture
Today in 1888, Louis Le Prince shot Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture. It features Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley walking around in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah … Continue reading
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The Growing Digital Dump (Infographic)
Source: Good magazine
Posted in Digitization, Infographics, Social Impact
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Age of Internet Empires: Google and Facebook Vie for Dominance
The Oxford Internet Institute published recently a map illustrating the most visited website in each country. It concluded: The supremacy of Google and Facebook over any other site on the Web is clearly apparent. We also see an interesting geographical … Continue reading
Birth of the American Library Association
Today in 1876, during the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 103 librarians, 90 men and 13 women, responded to a call for a “Convention of Librarians” to be held October 4-6 at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. At the end of … Continue reading
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What Has Steve Jobs Wrought?
[First published October 12, 2012] Steve Jobs had an insanely great ride on the waves of digitization that have transformed the way we work and play over the last few decades. But taking a cursory look at the hundreds of tributes … Continue reading
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First Solar-Powered Phone Call
Today in 1955, the first field trial of a rural telephone system making use of transistors and the Bell Solar Battery was held in Americus, Georgia. Today, 1.5 billion people, one quarter of the world’s population, live without electricity, and … Continue reading
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A Brief History of Content Marketing (Infographic)
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Plan to Make Radio Household Utility
Today in 1915*, David Sarnoff, Chief Inspector for The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America wrote to his superiors: “I have in mind a plan of development which will make radio a ‘household utility’ in the same sense as the piano or phonograph… … Continue reading
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Microsoft Word’s 30th Birthday
Thirty years ago today, Microsoft released it’s first full-featured application, a word processor called Word for MS-DOS 1.00. Microsoft provided a free demonstration copy with every copy of PC World magazine. It’s the first time in history a magazine has included a floppy-disk.
Bill Gates Explains control-alt-delete
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