Today in 1977, 13-year-old Jonathan Rotenberg established the Boston Computer Society (BCS), an organization for personal computer users which will eventually grow into the largest such organization in the world. Continue reading
Today in 1978, 
the first public dial-up Bulletin Board System, the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS, went online.
Today in 1946,
Eckert, Mauchly, ENIAC
the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), was formally dedicated. Continue reading
Today in 1924, 
the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) changed it name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Continue reading
PRI’s Lisa Mullins talks to Patrick Loughney, director of the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation about the return of priceless American silent films from Russia. Continue reading
Earlier this evening I enjoyed
by James Gillray
a Ticknor Society event in which Tom Michalak talked about early 19th century British caricatures, focusing on political caricatures and pamphlets about King George IV and Queen Caroline. Continue reading
Today in 1928, John Logie Baird transmited 
television pictures across the Atlantic, using a short-wave radio. Continue reading
Today in 1924, John Joseph Carty, Chief Engineer of AT&T, spoke on the first nationwide radio hookup in the United States. Continue reading
Today in 1958, in response to the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 four months earlier, the U.S. Department of Defense issued Directive 5105.15, establishing the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Continue reading
Today in 1837, The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution requesting the Treasury Secretary, Levi Woodbury, to report to the House at its next session, “upon the propriety of establishing a system of telegraphs for the United States.” Richard John in Network Nation: “Of the eighteen responses that Woodbury received, seventeen assumed that the telegraph would be optical and that its motive power would be human…. The only respondent to envision a different motive power was Samuel F. B. Morse… [who] proposed, instead, a new kind of telegraph of his own devising that would transmit information not by sight but, rather, by electrical impulses transmitted by wire.”
