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The Transistor Conceived

Movie Industry Born

Copying the Brain

19th Century Analytics

First Electronic Wristwatch

Edison’s Phonograph

Voice transmission

Deepfakes, 19th Century

Valley of Tears

The Nutcracker Debuts

Personal Computing Launched

Boston Tea Party

AltaVista Launched

The Pantelegraph

Ethernet Patented

Begetting Google Earth

First Picture of Earth

Encyclopaedia Britannica Published

The Mother of All Demos

Colossus Tested

First Instant Replay

Internet Started

First Folio Born

Join me on Notes

Auto PC Released

Artificial Neural Networks Born

First Videotape Recorder

The Dirty Lives of Robots

ASA Established

Micro-Soft Born

First Printing in Lisbon

The Origin of Species

World of Warcraft Released

Toy Story Launched

Cyber Monday Born

Personal Area Networks

The Mouse Roars

Inventing the Vacuum Tube

Turing Machine Born

First GMR-based Disk Drives

First Turing Test

Radio Meets Internet

“Spontaneous Revolutions”

First Engineering School

Giant Brains Rise

First Computer Virus

First Computer Worm

First US-Wide Weather Data Collection

First Illustrations

The Internet’s First Words

Movietone Premiers

Digital Advertising Born

First English Paper Book

First Timetables

Transcontinental Instant Communications

The Old Met Debuts

The Calculating People

First Killer App

First Transistor Radio

Transatlantic Service Established

CDC 1604 Launched

Inventing Motion Pictures

First aerial photographs

Calculating by Machinery

Cyberspace Celebrated

First Revolt of the Robots

Giant Brains @50

Carbon Copies Patented

Electrophotography Patented

Irrational IBM Affection

Transistor Patented

Disconnecting AI

Victorian Domestic Life

Music Streaming Envisioned

First Thinking Machine

Think Different

Deciphering Hieroglyphs

First TV Presidential Debate

Wireless Remote Control

MicroNET Launched

Tabulating Machine

Wiener’s Computer Proposal

Artificial Brains

Launching Emoticons

The Empirical Lexicographer

First Disk Drive

Flying High, Too High

First Integrated Circuit

Launching Remote Work

First Search Engine

Microsoft Bookshelf

The Image Dissector

Solving Practical Cryptography

First Google Patent

First Penny Paper

Automated Banking

Digital Preservation

Launching Routers

Patenting Design

The Advocate of Industry and Enterprise

The Historian’s Craft

Computer Etiquette

Launching Linux

Riding the Internet

The Hashtag Arrives

Calculating Machines

Fast Communications

Google Plays Wall Street

Microsoft Saves Apple

Animated Lanterns

Tabulating People

“Hello” Launched

First Electronic-Digital Computer

Computing Becomes Personal

Secret Communications

A Million Songs

The Copying Revolution

First Printed Maps

Preserving Nature

TRS-80 Released

The Manhattan Project

Mickey Mouse Talks

Inventing Paperbacks

Newspapers In America

Transatlantic Telegraph

Delivering The News

The Great Amazon Miss

Collecting Books, Establishing Libraries

First Killer Robot

First Robot On Mars

First Stellar Image

The Everything Store Opens

It’s All Twttr!

Jay W. Forrester

Boston’s Television

Human, All Too Human Hallucinations

His Master’s Voice

Babbage On Machine Learning

Moore School Lectures

Machine Intelligence Input

The Automation of Ledgers

Pointless Barking

Project Gutenberg Born

First TV Station

Typesetting, Tabulating, Sensing

Computing Founding Document

The Jesus Phone

Time Travelers' Reception

Bipolar-Junction Transistor Born

Telephone Demonstrated

Picturephone Launched

Type-Writing Machine Patented

Baby Runs a Program

Coded Communications

Distant Electric Vision

The Idea of NBC

Computing-Tabulating-Recording

The Babbage Difference

Sound and Pictures

IAS Computer Dedicated

First Sound on Film

US v. Microsoft

God’s Librarian

When Ada Met Babbage

Chip Trade Wars

Queen Elizabeth II Coronation

The IBM 1301 Disk Storage

Music Democratization

Packet Switching

Anticipating the Metaverse

Developing COBOL

A Century of Progress

Yet Another Revolution

First WWW Conference

First Telegraph Message

Oldest Working Library

Inventing Ethernet

The Defense Calculator

Those Were the Fax Days

What “Market Dominance”?

Exploring a Continent, the Universe

AIEE Established

Dvorak vs. Qwerty

Oldest Printed Book

A Vast Wasteland

Inventing the Metric System

First Practical Stored-Program Computer

First Spam Email

Four Centuries of Publishing Success

Extra! Extra! Librarians Against the Machine

First World's Fair

Extra! Extra! The Evolution of Modern Computing

The World of Tomorrow

Eclipse MV/8000 Launched

Music Library in Your Pocket

Xerox Fumbles the Future

Shakespeare Baptized

Alexander Graham Bell’s voice

Funding the Library of Congress

Extra! Extra! The King’s (First) Speech

Vitascope Introduced

One Billion Hard Drives Shipped

World Digital Library Launches

Computer-based Air Defense

The Osborne Effect

Apple Makes A Big Move

LiveJournal Goes Live

Inventing the Movies

Monte Carlo Simulation

First Computer Code

The 1936 Personal Computer

Happy Birthday, MIT!

First Public Library

First 3D Movies

Extra! Extra! Friction Matches

The Death of Distance

High-Speed Photography

Microsoft and Netscape

First Mobile Phone Call

Killer AI Arrives. Or Maybe Not.

Apple, Google, The Well and the Web

AI Begins a New Life Stage

The Phototransistor

Search Is So 1780

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is So 1955

Moving Data by Air

First PC Convention

First Sound Recording

New York City Vs. the Census Bureau

First Moon Shot

The Rise of Home PCs

The First Tweet

Managing Information

First Patent System

First Personal Broadcast

House of Wisdom

Rocket Scientists

First Internet Domain Name

First Fully Transistorized Computer

Moving Pictures

Unleashing the Web

The Impact of Automation on Jobs

Automated Telephone Exchanges

The Wealth of Nations

The Rights of Authors

The Accidental Inventor

The Oscarization of the Web

A Mirror with a Memory

First Photo Studio

The Rights of Photographs

Optical Signals

The Computer Industry

Why The Internet Never Forgets

The Impact of AI on Jobs

Encyclopedia of Life

The APT Language

Regulating Radio

First Presidential Radio Broadcast

First Telephone Directory

Turing Saw the Future of Computing

Talking machines

Boston Computer Society

The First Social Network

Inventing Movies

To Marry or Not to Marry

Deep Blue, Deep Learning

Race Against the Machine

Transatlantic TV

First Sputnik Moment

Calculating Machines

4 Simultaneous Text Messages

Writing at a Distance RFP

Music Streaming

Word Chronicles

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