How did amateur developers shape the modern internet? Take a trip down memory lane as we recall the impact of Web 1.0 and 2.0 ...

Coming out of the 1980s, the computer industry was looking to make leaps and bounds into the future. With the internet and email becoming a part of daily life, the need for more powerful personal ...

Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur renowned for developing, patenting, and manufacturing the Arithmometer. The Arithmometer was the first commercially successful ...

Thomas Harold Flowers is the technical genius who created the world’s second electronic computer (after ABC of Atanasoff) and the world’s first electronic programmable computer — Colossus. Flowers, ...

Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one of the preeminent thinkers of the last thousand years. Many of his thoughts, theories, ...

The first units were delivered in November 1977, unseen, and went on sale in the third week of December. Hobbyists, home users, and small companies flocked to the line. Tandy Corporation’s commanding ...

What started as a simple side project for a podcasting platform became a social network superstar. Twitter had humble beginnings as a status update feature of Odeo, but quickly became a standalone ...

Vannevar Bush was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and science administrator. He was the leader of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. His offices were ...

The calculating machine of the Swiss clockmaker Victor (or Viktor) Schilt (1822-1880) was exhibited in 1851 at the Great Exposition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in Crystal Palace, London, ...

Charles Wales, a genius of mechanical motion and a native of Maryland, who lived in the early 1900s in Detroit, filled his first patent application for an adding machine in September 1902, and when in ...

One of the oldest and most important computers in the Apple lineup, the iMac, can be attributed to much of Apple’s success in the computer world today. With the release of the iMac G3 in 2000 and its ...

William Wallace Hopkins was born on 16 November 1850, in Boone County, Indiana, USA, to Albert Hopkins (1818-1905) and Margaret Caldwell Hopkins (1830-1907) from Kentucky. William was the first child ...