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TDII Extra: Digital Tipping Points for Notebooks/Desktops/Smartphones
Today in 2008, market research firm iSuppli estimated that shipments of notebook computers have exceeded shipments of desktop computers in the third quarter of 2008 for the first time in history. Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for computer platforms at iSuppli, … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: Phonograph Patent Application
Today in 1877, Thomas Edison applied for a patent for a Phonograph that uses tin foil cylinders to write and playback music. Steven Lubar in InfoCulture: “With the invention of the phonograph, music had changed. It had become a commodity, … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: First Audio Radio Transmission
On this day in 1900, Reginald Audrey Fessenden said into a microphone: “Is it snowing where you are, Mr. Thiessen? If it is, telegraph back.” His voice, radiated from a 50-foot antenna on Cobb Island in the Potomac River, Maryland, … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: The Phonograph Explained
Today in 1877, Scientific American published a note that started “Mr Thomas A. Edison recently came to this office, placed a little machine on our desk, turned a crank, and the machine inquired us to our health, asked how we … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: The First Crossword Puzzle
Today in 1913, Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England, published the first crossword puzzle in the New York World. According to Jen Carlson, a New York Times editorial in 1924 called it “a primitive form of mental exercise.”
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This Day in Information: First Daguerreotypes
Today in 1839, John W. Draper made a daguerreotype of the moon with the camera he built, becoming the first person in the US to photograph a celestial body. Around the same time, he also made what may be the … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Birth of W3C
Today in 1994, the first meeting of the Advisory Committee of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was held at MIT. Tim Berners-Lee in Weaving the Web:
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This Day in Information: Ethernet Patent
Today in 1977, Bob Metcalfe, David Boggs, Charles Thacker, and Butler Lampson received a patent for the Ethernet, titled “Multipoint Data Communication System with Collision Detection.” On January 18, 1993, Metcalfe published an InfoWorld column titled “Will there be any … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: Wireless Transmission
Today in 1901, Guglielmo Marconi succeeded in transmitting the letter “S” (in Morse code) via radio telegraph from a transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to a receiver in Newfoundland. There was no independent observer present and there were many … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Birth of Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Internet
Today in 1768, the first weekly installment of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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