1991 News Report on Video Games Shows Not Much Has Changed
A 1991 news report about parents angry over Super Nintendo shows little has changed in 20 years.
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Articles tagged "History"
Fri, 16 November 2012
Thu, 18 October 2012
Google’s Cultural Institute: The Virtual Museum That Google Built
The world has just gotten a cool new free virtual museum, the one that Google built.
Mon, 28 May 2012
The Tech CEO Hall of Shame
In the grand pantheon of disgraced technology company CEOs, the resume blunder of ousted Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson seems almost…
Tue, 8 May 2012
4 Stupid Legal Mistakes That Can Kill Your Startup
Everyone knows Dickens’ famous opening from A Tale of Two Cities. But “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." is only…
Tue, 3 April 2012
Windows 8: The OS/2 of Today
After watching Microsoft lurch toward completion of Windows 8 and trying out a few of its early versions, I am struck by a tremendous…
Wed, 9 November 2011
Mapping the Republic of Letters
All throughout human history technical breakthroughs have altered the topography of human thought. Or, rather, human thought has had a freer…
Sat, 5 November 2011
Microsoft Kinect Turns One Year Old
Microsoft's gesture interface Kinect turns one year old this weekend; it was the 4th of November 2010 when it was first publicly available…
Mon, 26 September 2011
Asking the Cloud Doctor
In a sign that healthcare is moving to the mobile, a company called HealthTap is launching an app that offers a Quora-like experience from…
Google Announces Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Project
Later this week, the Jewish High Holidays begin with Rosh Hashanah, which marks the beginning of the new year. It seems like good timing for…
Thu, 22 September 2011
Google Earth Helps Understaned Geoglyphs
One of the wonderful results of networked intelligence is the revelation of the already-there. Geoglyphs. Could there be anything more there…
Wed, 14 September 2011
What Twitter Looked Like When It Was Born
Twitter, then known as twttr, was born just over 5 years ago - but in Twitter-time that's ancient history. What did it look like when it…
Wed, 7 September 2011
9/11 Testimonies & Archives
As the 10 year anniversary of the terrorist attack that brought down New York's World Trade Center approaches, there are many…
Fri, 19 August 2011
How Humanity Created So Much Data & Computable Knowledge (Infographic)
Steven Wolfram and team have gathered together a big timeline of key events in the history of systematic data and computable knowledge. The…
Wed, 29 June 2011
Remembering the Arrogance of MySpace
MySpace's fall from glory is now complete; Kara Swisher reports that it has been sold off to an advertising network for $35 million, an…
Mon, 20 June 2011
Google Partners with British Library
One of my favorite places on earth, the British Library, and the world's most popular search engine, Google, have struck a spectacular deal…
Thu, 16 June 2011
WW1 in Everday Objects & Online
The European project, "First World War in everyday documents" has combined real people and the physical artifacts they've inherited with the…
Wed, 8 June 2011
Kings & Queens: History Through Apps
How do you visualize your thoughts? Are your dreams more like a sit-com or a documentary? English historian David Starkey thinks his…
Wed, 1 June 2011
Historical DC Comes Alive Online
How do the Web, imaging, computer graphics and other technologies of the imagination change our understanding of, and even the images we…
