Collaborate Disseminate
You might think you don’t need a hearing aid, and you might be right. But in general, hearing loss eventually comes to all of us. In fact, you progressively lose …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Hearing Aids
In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability …read more Continue reading Modern Computing’s Roots or The Manchester Baby
Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While the very …read more Continue reading So What is a Supercomputer Anyway?
Somewhere between the period of 1999 and 2007 a plague swept through the world, devastating lives and businesses. Identified by a scourge of electrolytic capacitors violently exploding or splurging their …read more Continue reading The Capacitor Plague of the Early 2000s
If you think about military crypto machines, you probably think about the infamous Enigma machine. However, as [Christos T.] reminds us, there were many others and, in particular, the production …read more Continue reading Combined Crypto, Anglo-American Style
If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of …read more Continue reading Why 56k Modems Relied On Digital Phone Lines You Didn’t Know We Had
Shopping carts are surprisingly expensive. Prices range up to about $300 for a cart, which may seem like a lot, but they have to be pretty rugged and are made …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Shopping Cart Locks
Did you know that the land of flat-pack furniture and Saab automobiles played a serious role in the development of minicomputers, the forerunners of our home computers? If not, read …read more Continue reading DataSaab: Sweden’s Lesser-Known History in Computing
We like drinking out of glass. In many ways, it’s an ideal material for the job. It’s hard-wearing, and inert in most respects. It doesn’t interact with the beverages you …read more Continue reading The “Unbreakable” Beer Glasses Of East Germany
Typography enthusiasts reach a point at which they can recognise a font after seeing only a few letters in the wild, and usually identify its close family if not the …read more Continue reading You Know This Font, But You Don’t Really Know It