tech history
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Katherine Johnson Calculated Orbits Before Computers Could Be Trusted
Long before a computer was an iron cabinet humming behind plate glass, a computer was a person with ink on her fingertips, a sharp pencil, and a spine that did not bend. In the early nineteen-sixties, when the space program was still trying to fling metal canisters through the upper atmosphere without having them burn… Read more
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Before Google, How Did People Actually Find Things?
Picture this scenario for a second. You’re sitting with friends, enjoying a meal, and someone confidently claims that the movie Titanic came out in 1999. You know in your soul it came out in 1997. Today, this dispute lasts approximately six seconds. You pull out a slab of glass from your pocket, type five letters… Read more
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The Legacy of Ada Lovelace: Poetry Meets Programming
Ada Lovelace. A name that rolls off the tongue like a secret code, the kind you only whisper to people who get your obsession with algorithms and elegance. But here’s the twist: Ada didn’t just crunch numbers, she wrote poetry. Yes, poetry. And somehow, that poetry collided with mathematics to give us what we now… Read more
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The Untold Story of the First Computer Virus: Elk Cloner Shenanigans
Imagine it’s 1982. Big hair, neon leg warmers, and most importantly, a tiny floppy disk that’s about to make history. Meet Elk Cloner, the very first known computer virus to escape the confines of a lab and spread into the wild… or, well, the Apple II machines of unsuspecting high schoolers. Elk Cloner wasn’t malicious… Read more
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What Happened to BlackBerry: A Love Story with a Tragic Ending
There was a time when owning a BlackBerry meant you had arrived.Not metaphorically. I mean, you physically arrived, because your BlackBerry told everyone before you even walked in. The flashing red light, the subtle click of the trackball, the quiet confidence of someone with BBM contacts and a purpose. We didn’t just use our phones.… Read more
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Retro Tech Christmas: The Best and Worst Gadgets from Holidays Past
Every December, the air smells like pine, cookies, and regret.The regret of every parent who once fought another human being in a toy aisle for a Tickle Me Elmo. Let’s be honest, Christmas used to be chaotic tech theatre. The 2000s weren’t just about festive cheer. They were about wires, batteries not included, and one… Read more