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When was the World Wide Web Born?
First off, there is a distinction to be made between the internet and the World Wide Web. The internet has been…
World’s Oldest Calculator
The Antikythera Mechanism, oldest known calculator, is even older than first thought. It was found in 1900 as part of a shipwreck…
Jonas Salk’s 100th Birthday
The History of Polio is forever and inextricably linked with Jonas Salk . Salk’s eagerly anticipated achievement of inoculation against the much feared polio virus was made public on…
IBM Introduces the System/360
May the computers unite and with that revolutionary concept the IBM System/360 was born. Before the uniting of computers into…
The History of DNA
On Saturday, Feb. 28, 1953, New York Times, in an ironically understated setting for such an ultimately world reknown and…
Einstein’s God Letter
Below is an excerpt from the letter Einstein wrote in German in the year 1954. This letter, coined the “God…
Neil Armstrong’s Death at 82
I am very saddened to learn of the passing of Neil Armstrong today. Neil and I trained together as technical…
Information Innovation in History
“But this is not another rant against email. Email is magic. It enables abundant, free communication. Consider how far we…
The Inventor of the Telephone
1870 May 28 Older brother Melville Bell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25. July-August Alexander Graham Bell, his…
