His number plate said NO MODES. The commands everyone uses were a by-product of that conviction, and the law named after him explains why…
The 1998 iMac slide read internet, individual, instruct, inform, inspire. Only the first survived in public memory — and Apple’s newest…
People who were teenagers then still call the 80s their golden age, and Stranger Things has made a new generation curious. Here is why the…
On 12 April 1981 Columbia launched on the first shuttle mission carrying HP-41C calculators bought from a Houston store, programmed by NASA…
Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh on this day in 1847, was trying to help the deaf when he built the telephone; the company he…
On this day in 2005 three ex-PayPal employees registered a video site that now has 2.5 billion users; in 1819 the inventor of the…
Douglas Engelbart, born on this day in 1925, demonstrated the mouse, hypertext and video conferencing in a single 1968 presentation that…
Programmers had saved two digits by writing years as “99”; when the clock turned to “00”, planes, banks and power plants might read it as…
The world’s richest man landed at 7:30 am with Melinda Gates, toured BRAC and icddr,b projects funded by their foundation, met Khaleda Zia…
At Madison Square Garden Nikola Tesla demonstrated a boat controlled by radio waves — the first wireless remote control, patented as a…
In 2002 the science and ICT ministry took seven floors of the BSRS building at 12 Karwan Bazar — 70,000 square feet, always-on power and…
Born in Chicago on 22 October 1941, Mazor studied maths at San Francisco State, joined Fairchild as a programmer in 1964 and Intel in 1969…
