TechHistoryTechHistory9 of the Best Flops on Display at the Museum of FailureThe Juicero, Cyberpunk 2077, and Google Glass—The Museum of Failure, currently open in Brooklyn, has it all.ByKevin HurlerPublishedMay 1, 2023Comments (124)
TechHistoryTechHistoryHey '90s Kids: Disney Channel Is 40 Years Old TodayMiley Cyrus? Okay boomer, I'll bite, who the hell is Miley Cyrus?ByKevin HurlerPublishedApril 18, 2023Comments (15)
TechHistoryTechHistory50 Years Ago, the First Cell Phone Call Was Made on This DynaTAC DinosaurDr. Martin Cooper of Motorola decided to make history by trolling his rival, Joel Engel of AT&T, with a phone call.ByEduardo MarínPublishedApril 3, 2023Comments (15)
TechHistoryTechHistoryIf You Can Decipher These 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls, You Could Win $250KTeams that enter the Vesuvius Challenge will get access to digital scans of two Herculaneum scrolls.ByKevin HurlerPublishedMarch 16, 2023Comments (11)
TechHistoryTechHistoryVinyl Outsold CDs for the First Time Since 1987The resilient format raked in $1.2 billion in 2022, outselling CDs by nearly 8 million units.ByKevin HurlerPublishedMarch 10, 2023Comments (12)
TechHistoryTechHistoryChuck E. Cheese Still Uses Floppy Disks to Control Its Nightmare MachinesTikTok user showbizpizzaman documented the process of uploading data to the computers that control Chuck E. Cheese's…ByKevin HurlerPublishedMarch 7, 2023Comments (56)
TechHistoryTechHistoryThen and Now: 10 Times New York City Drastically Changed via Google MapsThe High Line, Downtown Brooklyn, and Hudson Yards are some of the most dramatic examples of New York City's…ByKevin HurlerPublishedFebruary 2, 2023Comments (5)
TechHistoryTechHistoryJames Cameron Says 'Thorough Forensic Analysis' Proves Jack's Titanic Death Was InevitableTitanic director James Cameron wants to end the decades-old debate over Jack's death.ByNikki MainPublishedDecember 20, 2022Comments (19)
TechHistoryTechHistoryThe 140 Funniest Tweets of All TimeThe tweets that hopefully survive if Elon Musk really does destroy Twitter through his incompetence.ByMatt NovakPublishedNovember 18, 2022Comments (55)
TechHistoryTechHistoryCops Used to Shoot at Training Movies in the 1950s"I'm afraid I hit one of the officers, but I also am sure I got both suspects," one L.A. police officer said.ByMatt NovakPublishedOctober 28, 2022Comments (13)
TechHistoryTechHistoryInside the 20th Century's Weirdest Architectural BreakthroughBuckminster Fuller's geodesic domes were years in the making. An excerpt from "Inventor of the Future."ByAlec Nevala-LeePublishedOctober 17, 2022Comments (3)
TechHistoryTechHistoryBefore ‘Anal Beads’ Drama, There Were Other Ludicrous Computer Chess Cheating ScandalsAs much attention as this most recent scandal has received, chess cheaters have long used elaborate…ByKyle BarrPublishedOctober 15, 2022Comments (6)
TechHistoryTechHistoryThis Electric Car Ad From 1921 Asked Drivers To Be Brutally Honest With ThemselvesThis electric car from the 1920s topped out at 30 miles per hour, but why would you need anything faster?ByMatt NovakPublishedSeptember 21, 2022Comments (38)
TechHistoryTechHistoryHappy Anniversary to Kelly Rowland Texting Nelly on a SpreadsheetOnly a Nokia 9210 Communicator could separate these star-crossed lovers.ByKevin HurlerPublishedAugust 17, 2022Comments (29)
TechHistoryTechHistoryHow Spider-Man Led to the Invention of the Prisoner Ankle MonitorA judge in New Mexico approached an engineer after reading a strip of "The Amazing Spider-Man" in 1977.ByMatt NovakPublishedAugust 10, 2022Comments (9)
TechHistoryTechHistoryA Brief History of Denver International Airport's Many ConspiraciesThe massive airport could be home to lizard people, pandemic-inducing antigens, and the Illuminati. Or it could just…ByKevin HurlerPublishedJuly 21, 2022Comments (30)
TechHistoryTechHistoryWho Planted a Bomb That Killed Two People at the 1940 New York World's Fair?The time-bomb was placed at the British exhibition, killing two police officers who were trying to disarm it.ByMatt NovakPublishedJuly 18, 2022Comments (8)
TechHistoryTechHistoryHow People From 1955 Imagined Technology of the FutureFrom atomic-powered cars and trains to an 'electronic eye' grocery checkout, these technologies were the promises of…ByMatt NovakPublishedJune 11, 2022Comments (36)
TechHistoryTechHistory6 Cringey Times Politicians Didn't Know TechTech companies use political idiocy to their advantage while members of congress are often more concerned with…ByKyle BarrPublishedMay 26, 2022Comments (6)
TechHistoryTechHistoryTom Cruise Said in 1990 Making a Sequel to Top Gun Would Be 'Irresponsible'Cruise suggested a sequel to Top Gun would give kids a warped 'fairy tale' view of war.ByMatt NovakPublishedMay 2, 2022Comments (61)