Apr 23 2015
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On April 23rd, 2005, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a masterpiece of mundanity to YouTube, his newly…
Feb 5 2015
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If you’re one of the 7 billion humans on this planet who enjoys getting pizza delivered to your door, you have a…
Jan 5 2015
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Oct 10 2014
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Two decades ago, Opera's Chief Technical Officer, Håkon Wium Lie, published a document that would change web design…
Aug 11 2014
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Exactly 80 years ago today, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary officially opened its gates to some of America's most…
Apr 28 2014
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In the normal world, it's what you'd call a bad investment: Spending $2 billion to build the largest moveable…
Apr 28 2014
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Exactly 20 years ago, NPR staffer Dennis Fuze circulated a memorandum to his colleagues announcing that the…
Apr 21 2014
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You've almost certainly played a game on your phone today. Some beautiful, high-res game with a rainbow of colors…
Apr 1 2014
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Gmail's officially entering its tender tween years today, and after a decade with the internet's favorite email…
Apr 1 2014
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Take heed, because there's a lot of bad stuff out there on the internet today. But there's one thing that's very…
Feb 13 2014
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I have a confession: My brother and I destroyed my Easy-Bake Oven. I had the 1981 Mini-Wave model, the boxy, yellow…
Feb 4 2014
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Ten years ago today, Mark Zuckerberg gave birth to The Facebook and launched an online social revolution in his…
Jan 11 2014
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Fifty years ago today, in 1964, the US Surgeon General released one of the most progressive documents on smoking of…
Dec 9 2013
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On December 9th, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart—along with 17 researchers from Stanford—gave a 90-minute live public…
Nov 26 2013
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Polaroid is a non-entity these days, but instant photography lives on in the digital photos we produce at dazzling…
Oct 24 2013
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We were promised supersonic flights. Today, we stay well below the speed of sound. We were promised transatlantic…
Oct 1 2013
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Incredible as it may seem, today 4chan turns a full 10 years old—hello tween years! But 4chan is, let's say, advanced…
Sep 23 2013
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Today in 2008, Google executives stood on stage and announced the much-rumored T-Mobile G1 (also known as the HTC…
Sep 13 2013
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The humble cassette tape, beloved of 80s music lovers, may now be defunct—but it's hardly surprising given that the…
Sep 4 2013
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Today marks the official 15th birthday of everyone's favorite startup search engine turned tech giant turned Big…