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News from the North Pole and the Lonely Mountain
Today in 1897, New York’s Sun published an unsigned editorial (written by Francis Pharcellus Church) in response to eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon question: “Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?” It read in part: “VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. … Continue reading
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Privacy (2)
“…If we become too obsessed with privacy we could lose opportunities to make connections in this age of links.
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The First Laptop
Today in 1983, the Osborne Computer Corporation declared bankruptcy. The Osborne I, the first portable computer, was designed by company founder Adam Osborne.
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They Saw it as Destiny
Louis H. Sullivan, the father of the modern skyscraper, said this about Chicago in 1875, as it emerged from the Great Fire of 1871 and the Economic Panic of 1873:
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21-Year-Old Internet Search Keeps Most Popular Status
Today in 1990, Archie, the first Internet search engine, was launched. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, creating a searchable database of file names; however, Archie did not index … Continue reading
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On Privacy (1)
Deprivacy Although we feel unknown, ignored As unrecorded blanks, Take heart! Our vital selves are stored In giant data banks,
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“There You Have Electronic Television”
Today in 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device he called an “image dissector.”
The Paperless Office of the Future, Still
News from IDC today: “Not Dead Yet: Printed Page Volume to Reach 1.2 Trillion in the U.S. by 2015.”
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Online Video Vs. DVDs-by-Mail Vs. DVRs
Internet Tipping Point*: In 2006, the number of Netflix subscribers to its DVDs-by-mail service surpassed, for the first time, the number of TiVo subscribers.
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Spinning Disks
Fifty-five years ago today, 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. … Continue reading
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