technology + history
- Mark Milian: Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
- For one, they found that postcards often contained fewer than 150 characters. Second, they analyzed a set of messages sent through Telex.
- 2009-05-06 to bestof, history, mobile, standards, technology by soobrosa
- Kevin Kelly: One Dead Media
- One of my suppositions is that technologies rarely go extinct -- on the global level. It is hard to find an old technology that is not available in any form any where on earth.
- 2008-06-24 to bestof, history, index cards, technology by soobrosa
- How the Web Was Won
- Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudg
- 2008-06-10 to bestof, history, internet, story, technology by bagoly
- Running on Fumes
- Does the “car of the future” have a future?
- 2007-10-31 to bestof, books, car, history, technology by metatron
- Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet
- Who was Paul Otlet? Meet the forgotten forefather of information architecture.
- 2007-10-02 to bestof, history, hypertext, internet, technology by bagoly
- Anthony Lane: Candid Camera
- The cult of Leica.
- 2007-09-17 to bestof, history, photography, story, technology by soobrosa
- Concept Cars of the Past
- In the worst-case scenario, your car today could be a bubble-topped, six-wheeled freeway cruiser, complete with zebra skin and lion fur upholstery, with two rifles tucked between the front seats and a nuclear power plant at your rear.
- 2007-08-01 to cars, gallery, history, technology by bagoly
- Videogames Turn 40 Years Old
- three men in snowy New Hampshire crafted the future of electronic entertainment deep in the heart of a commercial war machine. In May of 1967, the world's first videogames -- as we know them today -- made their quiet, humble entrance into the world.
- 2007-05-16 to history, interesting, technology by bagoly
- Fragmentary Knowledge
- Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer?
- 2007-05-10 to bestof, history, interesting, science, technology by bagoly
- In the Loop
- Leonardo drew knots. So did Albrecht Durer. Their ingenious intertwinings demand your full attention. Today few viewers bother. They're in too much of a rush.
- 2007-03-20 to bestof, history, knots, occupation, technology by bagoly
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