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E-Books Born on July 4, 1971
Today in 1971, Michael Hart keyed in The United States Declaration of Independence to the mainframe he was using, all in upper case, because there was no lower case yet. Hart was a student at the University of Illinois and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Digitization, ebooks, This day in information
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50 Years of Visionary Sci-Fi Computer Interfaces
50 Years of visionary Sci Fi Computer Interface Design by Glow New Media
Posted in Science Fiction, Yesterday's Futures
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The Origins of the Internet (Video)
Computer magazine’s multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Katie Hafner about the history of the APRANET project as described in her 1996 book, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.
Posted in Computer history, Internet
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Feeding Information to Machines to Speed Up Processing
Today in 1886, the first Linotype machine in the U.S. was installed at the Tribune newspaper in New York City. Invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a Linotype machine could produce five lines per minute compared to the one line per minute typically … Continue reading
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The Founding Document of Modern Computing Published
Today in 1945, John von Neumann published “A First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.” Campbell-Kelly and Aspray call it in Computer: The History of the Information Machine “the technological basis for the worldwide computer industry.” In A History of Modern Computing, Paul … Continue reading
First Classical Music Recording
Today in 1888, Thomas Edison’s foreign sales agent, Colonel George Gouraud, made a wax cylinder recording in the Crystal Palace, London, of a 3016-person choir performing Handel’s Israel in Egypt at a distance of more than one hundred yards from … Continue reading
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News Networks Launched, Newspapers Survive
Today in 1846, the first telegraph link was established between New York City and Boston. From the AP Archives: “In the spring of 1846, Moses Yale Beach (1800-68), publisher of The New York Sun, establishes a pony express to deliver … Continue reading
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The Internet of Things Launched
Today in 1974, a Universal Product Code (UPC) label was used to ring up purchases at a supermarket for the first time. The first UPC ever scanned is on a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum (now on display at the Smithsonian’s National … Continue reading
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Do You Reveal Too Much About Yourself on Social Media? [Infographic]
Source: AllTwitter/NextAdvisor
Posted in Infographics, Privacy, social media, Social Networks
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The Oxford English Dictionary: The First Crowdsourcing Project?
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added the word “crowdsourcing” in its most recent quarterly online update. While the term was coined by Jeff Howe in 2006, after the Word Wide Web has made it easier to solicit “input from a large … Continue reading
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