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Super Bowl 1985: Typewriters, Fax Machines and Steve Jobs
Long before Levi’s Stadium’s modern-day luxury suites, exclusive wine tastings and mobile app to watch video replays, there was Stanford Stadium, a huge and forlorn crater of a place with gangling weeds poking through splintered wooden bleachers. In 1985, for … Continue reading
Milestones in the History of Technology: Week of January 11, 2016
January 11, 1994 The Superhighway Summit is held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. It was the “first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the … Continue reading
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Milestones in Tech History: Week of January 4, 2016
January 4, 1972 The HP-35 is introduced. The world’s first handheld-sized scientific calculator, ultimately made the slide rule, which had previously been used by generations of engineers and scientists, obsolete. Named for its 35 keys, it performed all the functions … Continue reading
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Tagged Daguerreotype, HP-35, IBM, Metropolitan Museum
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This Week in Tech History: The Internet is 46 years old and Internet Advertising is 21
October 27, 2010 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is celebrated or the first time, to “raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of … Continue reading
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This Week In Tech History: Back To The Future
October 19, 1979 Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston release Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and the first killer app for personal computers. October 20, 2010 The first World Statistics Day is celebrated. Here he comes big with Statistics, Troubled and … Continue reading
This Week In Tech History: Steve Jobs And The NeXT Big Thing
October 12, 1988 Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer at Symphony Hall in San Francisco. A day or two later, I was among a standing-room only crowd at Boston’s Symphony Hall admiring the all-black, beautifully-designed “workstation” with a brand-new optical … Continue reading
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This Week In History: Making Copies and Giant Brains
October 6, 1942 Chester Carlson received a patent for electrophotography which he invented four years earlier. Searching for a buyer for his invention between 1939 and 1944, Carlson was turned down by more than 20 companies, including IbM, GE, Eastman … Continue reading
This Week In Tech History: Think Different
September 28, 1997 Apple Computer launched the “Think different” marketing campaign. The campaign’s television commercials featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities and a free-verse poem read by Richard Dreyfuss, starting with the words “Here’s to the crazy … Continue reading
The Tech Boom of the 1880s
Vaclav Smil in IEEE Spectrum: According to the worshippers of the e-world, the late 20th century brought us an unprecedented number of profound inventions. But that is a categorical misunderstanding, as most recent advances have been variations on the microprocessor … Continue reading
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