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What is Yahoo: Explained Yahoo! is an Internet platform that features a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites arranged […]
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When you think about video chat in the workplace these days, there is little question that Zoom and Microsoft Teams […]
What Is World Wide Web Wanderer?: Explained The brilliant idea of the World Wide Web was devised in the spring […]
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The History of Twitter: What to Know What started as a simple side project for a podcasting platform became a […]
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Looking back to 1999 brings us to the story of Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, who didn’t know exactly how at […]
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The History of Wikipedia: What to Know Wikipedia is a free digital encyclopedia that allows everyone and anyone to freely […]
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File sharing and real-time communication are critical in unifying today’s workforce. From live chats to video conferencing, there is […]
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4 Facts About NCSA Mosaic Internet Web Browser What Is NCSA Mosaic Internet Web Browser: Explained The very first web browser was […]
The Founding of Google: How It Happened In 1995, searching for a dissertation theme, Larry Page considered exploring the mathematical […]
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While most exclusively use Google today, some will remember a time when a whole plethora of different internet search […]
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Who Is Ted Nelson? Born in 1937, Theodor Holm Nelson is an American philosopher, computer scientist, and sociologist. He specializes […]
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Who Was Larry Roberts? Larry (Lawrence) Roberts is known as the father of computer vision for his contributions to the […]
The History of Amazon: What to know Amazon is an enormous, internet-based company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The technology giant […]
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Leonard Kleinrock Three people can be credited as inventors of packet-switched networks, thus laying the foundations for the Internet: Leonard […]
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The NLS system of Douglas Engelbart The name of the prominent American inventor and computer pioneer Douglas Carl Engelbart (biography […]
Charles Goldfarb—the Godfather of Markup Languages The idea of markup languages was apparently first publicly presented by the engineer William […]
Joseph Licklider Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (see biography of Licklider), called also J.C.R. or “Lick”, was an American scientist, an […]
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Donald Davies Three people can be credited as inventors of packet-switched networks, thus laying the foundations for the Internet: Paul […]
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: Automata is the study and understanding of abstract machines. Automata deals with logical computation, with the basic theories regarding […]
Who Was Paul Baran? Born on April 29, 1926, Paul Baran was an American inventor, economist, and electrical engineer who, […]
François Willème Naturally, the first technology for producing kind of 3D models by mechanical means, which might be considered to […]
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Why is the computer such an important machine? Can you answer my question? If you are a child, you can say […]
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3 Facts about Leonardo Torres’s Chess Machine Leonardo Torres’s Chess Machine History In the beginning of 1910, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo commenced […]
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: Alessandro Volta is known for discovering methane gas (1776) and inventing the world’s first electric battery. Napoleon Bonaparte gave Volta […]
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: Villard de Honnecourt The French Villard de Honnecourt is an enigmatic and power-minded medieval person, considered by some people as […]
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: Calvin Mooers Calvin Northrup Mooers (1919-1994) was an American computer scientist who was an influential figure in the early information […]
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: Leonardo da Vinci’s Automata: History Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, engineer, sculptor, scientist, and architect who embodied the High […]
: Athanasius Kircher The prominent German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) (see biography of Athanasius Kircher) was a famous 17th-century scholar, […]
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Who Was Joseph Marie Jacquard? Joseph Marie Charles Jacquard was a French weaver who played an important role in the […]
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: Friedrich Kaufmann The Kaufmann family from Dresden (see the lower image), Saxony (Johann Gottfried Kaufmann (1751-1818), his son Johann Friedrich […]
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Who Was Wolfgang von Kempelen? Wolfgang von Kempelen is a man revered for his inventions that created hot debate in […]
Euphonia The German Joseph Faber, born around 1800 in Freiburg Breisgau, near Schwarzwald, came at a young age to Vienna, […]
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Giovanni Fontana More than half a century before the extraordinary machine drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the first technology manuscript […]
