Anniversary of the Day

August 15, 2013

Ethernet has been with us for four decades now, and to celebrate the folks at (the newly revamped) Light Reading have posted this infographic:

Creation of Innovation: History Comes to Life in VR

In celebration of Black History Month, this week’s Creation of Innovation shines a light on a groundbreaking immersive exhibit that recreates an iconic moment in American history – the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

February 27, 2020

40 Years of Smart Policy & the FCC’s About-Face

Tomorrow is the 40-year anniversary of the Internet Age. On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI International successfully sent an electronic message from a computer set up at…

August 26, 2016

Know Your Smartphone History

The smartphone didn’t begin with the release of the original iPhone. In fact, the history of smartphones can be traced all the way back to 1994, as this…

September 25, 2014

Very Long in the Tooth

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the 1934 Communications Act. Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Act was basically a shuffling of the Federal Radio…

June 19, 2014

Dept. of Making You Feel Old

Remember how awesome the Internet was in the 1990s? Well, kids these days would disagree with you:

June 3, 2014

Visions of the Web

So this is pretty cool. At The Atlantic, Alex Wright highlights the fact the World Wide Web’s origins date back farther than we think. An excerpt: When Vannevar…

May 29, 2014

Mobile in the Roaring Twenties

Think mobile phones are a fairly recent invention? Think again. As this old newsreel from British Pathé shows, people in 1922 could stroll down the sidewalk and talk…

April 21, 2014

Picture Friday

How things have changed…

August 23, 2013

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web entering the public domain. To mark the occasion, CERN — the research group that made the web as…

April 30, 2013

Analyzing the Past to Predict the Future

Here’s something interesting for your Friday. At GigaOm, Laura Hazard Owen writes about a research project aimed at predicting the future: Researchers at Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute…

February 1, 2013

Speaking of CES

Over at the Verge, Laura June has assembled an amazing gallery of photos from the tech event over the years. The entire spread stretches way back to 1967,…

January 7, 2013

Rural Electrification Doesn’t Light a Path for Broadband

On Wednesday at the Brookings Institution event “Fostering Internet Competition” in DC, my friend and Harvard Professor Susan Crawford suggested that we look at the spread of electricity…

October 12, 2012

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