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Radio News
Today in 1920, station 8MK (today’s WWJ) in Detroit, Michigan, aired the first radio news program. Today, according to SBD, 45% of listeners in the USA rely on their smart phones to access Internet radio.
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First Tornado Photograph
Today in 1884, the first known photograph of a tornado was taken near Howard, South Dakota. The tornado may have inspired L. Frank Baum to include one in his book, The Wizard of Oz, for he was a news reporter in nearby Aberdeen.
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“Television” Coined
Today in 1900, Constantin Perskyi, Professor of Electricity at the Artillery Academy of Saint Petersburg, coined the word “television” in a paper read at the International World Fair in Paris at the 1st International Congress of Electricity.
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Apple: Welcome, IBM. Seriously.
Thirty years ago today, Apple Computer ran a full-page ad in the The Wall Street Journal, twelve days after IBM entered the personal computer market with the launch of the IBM PC.
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Animation Milestones
Today in 1908, the first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie, was released. The film (watch it on YouTube) was created by Émile Cohl by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a … Continue reading
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Birth of the IBM PC
Thirty years ago today, IBM announced the IBM Personal Computer, model 5150. The PC featured a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 CPU containing 29,000 transistors, 16KB RAM (64KB standard, expandable to 256KB), 40KB ROM, one or two Tandon brand 5.25-inch floppy drives (160KB capacity), a … Continue reading
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Copies, Copies Everywhere
Today in 1876, Thomas Edison received a patent for a “method of preparing autographic stencils for printing.” The term “mimeograph” to describe this duplicating machine was first used by Albert Blake Dick when he licensed Edison’s patents in 1887. Hillel Schwartz in The Culture … Continue reading
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Computing Milestones
Sixty-five years ago today, the Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing Devices (LCD) of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) was formed, evolving in 1963 into the IEEE. Also today, in 1944, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC)–also known as the … Continue reading
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The Web Unleashed
Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted files to alt.hypertext, making the WorldWideWeb available to the Internet community. Berners-Lee message said, in part: “The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere… The WWW … Continue reading
Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare
Twenty years ago today, the first email message was sent from space to earth. The Houston Chronicle reported:
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