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This Day In Information: Uniform Penny Post
Today in 1840, the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap conveyance of letters.
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This Day In Information: 1st Battery-Operated Switchboard
Today in 1894, New England Telephone and Telegraph installed the first battery-operated switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. With what became to be known as the “common battery” (replacing the local battery attached to the telephone), the subscriber could signal the operator … Continue reading
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2011 Information Anniversaries
Wikipedia, 10 years, January 15, 2001 First Beatles performance at the Cavern Club, 50 years, February 21, 1961 MIT, 150 years, Apr 10, 1861 The King James, or Authorised, Version of the Bible, 400 years, May 2, 1611 IBM, 100 … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: The Birth of the Photography Industry
Today in 1839, the Daguerreotype process was presented to the French Academy of Sciences by Francois Arago, a physicist and politician. Arago told the Academy that it was “…indispensable that the Government should compensate M. Daguerre, and that France should … Continue reading
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Cloud Computing is Bad for Your Creativity and Freedom
“A mobile phone-cum-computer might be very useful, but we still need our PCs to run our programs, and these PCs will preserve all the possibilities of social creativity. Things could evolve differently, though, due to the possible diffusion of Web … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: Cloud Computing, 1976
Today in 1976, IBM introduced Virtual Storage Personal Computing, “a new program product to allow people with little or no data processing experience to use a computer terminal to solve problems.” The terminals were connected to remote IBM mainframes via … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: Scientific Journals
Today in 1665, the first issue of the Journal des sçavans (later renamed Journal des savants), was published in Paris.
Internet Up, TV Down as Main News Source for Under 30
Pew Research Center: In 2010, for the first time, the internet has surpassed television as the main source of national and international news for people younger than 30. Another 2 years for 30-49 year-olds?
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InfoStory Quotes: IT Jobs Forecasts
“As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.” —Paul Krugman, 1998 “Between 1998 and 2008, … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Machine of the Year
Today in 1983, Time magazine put on its cover the PC, calling it “machine of the year.” Roger Rosenblatt wrote:
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