Released in the United States on November 18, 2001, three months after Japan, the Nintendo GameCube was a hotly anticipated […] ...

Smartphones are ubiquitous these days, everyone and their cousin have one. However, in the early years of the tech’s introduction to the masses, there were many who took a swing at Apple’s newly ...

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, or “Lick”, was an American psychologist and computer science pioneer. There are many claims for the “father” of internet technology. Only one has the title of ...

In 1876 Curt Dietzschold (1852-1922), a German mechanical engineer from Dresden was invited to come to Glashütte (a small town in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, which was the birthplace of the ...

In the 1860s, Elizur Wright (see the biography of Elizur Wright), an American mathematician and abolitionist, sometimes described as the father of life insurance in the United States, invented his ...

Abby has a B.A. in English, and has written short and long fiction, with a published novel, lyrics and poetry. She's also done interviews and pieces on the folk music industry. Besides writing and ...

Albert Stettner Jr., a mechanic from Berlin, Prussia, was a holder of 2 German (DE21236 and DE23098 from 1882) and 1 USA (US277627 from 1883) patent for keyboard adding machines. The patents DE23098 ...

Ph.D. candidate Alan Kay envisions the concept of the DynaBook in 1968. He originally called it the KiddiComp. Kay described the it as “a personal computer for children of all ages.” His proposal ...

Isaac Asimov, in his fiction science story named, ‘Runaround’ published introduced the Asimov’s Law of Robotics in 1942. He created a story where the robots were handed over responsibility for ...

Typically, when you’re thinking about operating systems in the modern day, you’ve got three to consider. Linux, Windows, and MacOS are the main driving forces behind much of desktop and laptop ...

The Burroughs Adding Machine can still be purchased today from sites like eBay, usually for between $70 and $300, or more depending on the condition of the machine. At one point the Burroughs Adding ...