The next Social Media giant is right before our eyes, known as the photo filtering and sharing social mobile app, Instagram. Although its launch date was in ...
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Why has email lasted so long?
Many of us grew up writing letters long-hand and sending them via the Post Office. It wasn’t until 1965, that the concept of email emerged and about 6 years ...
Online empires fall. Will Facebook?
It's hard to imagine the world without Facebook right now. Even people who aren't users are affected by it even if only because they are constantly bombarded ...
2011 through the eyes of Google (and therefore, the world)
Every year, Google composes a Zeitgeist report that attempts to capture the essence of the year and give a glimpse of what we can expect in the coming year. ...
“The Internet in 1969” was eerily correct
Predictions of the future are often foolish and do not accurately represent reality. In this case, they got it nailed pretty nicely. We don't know the ...
Dial-Up modem sound is creepy when slowed down 700%
It's a sound that few of us have heard since the last time we saw a modem that looked like the one above. Still, it's a sound that will always be recognized by ...
The hard disk you’ve been waiting for!
We all know that new tech gadgets are more expensive in the beginning when demand and expenses could bring a higher price. With hard drives, it's amazing to ...
America’s Educational Failures All Summed Up In One History Class
"You are only allowed to use your OWN knowledge, your OWN class notes, class handouts, your OWN class homework, or The Earth and Its Peoples textbook to ...
Apple Donates MacPaint Code To Computer History Museum
In a striking move of almost unparalleled generosity, Apple has donated the source code for its MacPaint application to the Computer History Museum. The ...
9 Tech Inventions That Started it All – How Far We’ve Come
In this day and age, it's often all too easy to complain about the problems plaguing social networking sites, overpriced computers, and the lack of viable ...
13 Components That Defined a Great Website in 1998
As Google celebrates the change of seasons with a newly enhanced layout, I've come down with a bad case of Springtime nostalgia. Ah, yes, the glory days of my ...