In 1956, Zenith developed one of the earliest wireless TV remote control devices. It featured a small hammer inside the remote that could be used to strike one of four aluminum bars, producing an ultrasonic sound that was too high-pitched for humans to hear. This sound was then used to transmit signals to the TV, […]
The History of Instagram
Instagram is a popular photo and video-sharing social networking platform that was launched in 2010. The app was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, two entrepreneurs who were inspired by the success of similar photo-sharing apps like Flickr and Hipstamatic. The first version of Instagram was released on October 6, 2010, and was available only on iOS devices. The app quickly gained popularity, with over 1 million users in just two months. One of the key features that made Instagram stand out was its use of filters, which allowed users to easily edit and enhance their photos. In April
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53 years ago was the first time data…
53 years ago was the first time data was sent through the internet. it was only the 2 digits “LO” because the network could not deal with so much information (AKA to complete the word “LOGIN”) so it crashed after the first 2 digits.
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People Describe What They Actually Used Their Personal Computer For In The 1980s
During the Super Bowl of 1984, Apple debut a commercial inspired by George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. The commercial was announcing the release of their first personal computer called the Macintosh.
But was the computer actually used to keep “Big Brother” and the threat of totalitarianism at bay like the commercial said it would?
We went to AskReddit to find out what people were actually using their new computers for in the mid 80s.
Redditor incrementaler asked:
“People that had a personal computer in 1984, what did you actually use it for?”
Here’s a list that’s sure to spark some nostalgia.
The games.
“Lode Runner.” – John-Musacha
“And Wizardry!” – OneSidedDice
“And Archon.” – hossbeast
“I’m actually trying right now to get Lode Runner to work in my PC emulator I’ve been writing….” – valeyard89
“I remember a good friend of mine introducing me to that game. I can’t recall how many levels there were, but I think we made it in to the 120’s? We would challenge each other by making our own maps. That was a great game!” – MickeyRipple
“My father has a Mac SE with a Rodine hard drive that still works and plays lode runner (as long as you have the license disk!)” – stevebri
“Hunt the Wumpus.” – fireshitup
“Adventure international expanded on that if I remember correctly…” – Eticket9
Zork.
“Got my first computer in 1983. A Commodore 64 with a 1541 disk drive and a dot matrix printer. I used it for homework (writing papers), but mostly for games. First game I ever played was Zork and the second was a game called Blue Max. (flying/shooting game)”
“By 1984, I also had a 300 baud modem and went online, calling BBSs and joining Q-Link in 1985. Q-Link would, in 1989, become America Online. But, it was mostly BBSs, because Q-Link cost money and the BBSs were free.” – BranWafr
“Zork is a text adventure, something that would’ve probably cost around $40. The computer itself was $595 at launch, but various retailers have cut the price down to around $99 in the 1990s.”
“You’ll also need a disk drive, which costs around $400 for a 1541 disk drive. The price would be just a little over a thousand dollars, at $1035. You would also want a display device, but normally you can use your home TV if it has an RF or composite output.” – pixdoet
“I loved Blue Max…that was a great game! I typed in SpeedScript from Compute’s Gazette magazine and used that word processor through high school and my first year of college.” – sdtopensied
“I remember seeing commercials for something I think it was called prodigy.” – Jolly-Idea-5079
“At the time the big, national online services were Q-Link, Compuserve, and Prodigy.”
“Soon after there was also GEnie, which I joined and where I discovered Babylon 5 since Joe Straczynski was a GEnie member and was talking about the show as he created it and filmed the pilot. That was a lot of fun…” – BranWafr
The bulletin boards.
“Games, using bulletin boards.” – SlimChiply
“That’s about all there was then. Oh, and learning how to write code.” – jcpmojo
Writing you own software package.
“Games mostly. But I also wrote a bowling league software package my dad used for around 8 years! Trs-80, Coco 3, Commodore 64.” – hagemeyp
“Yeah, I had my trash-80 as well. But it was a real computer. Originally has a cassette device for loading and saving software and ultimately hit a disk drive.” – Stay-Thirsty
“I had Trash 80s at school and a C64 at home. And my friend had an Apple IIe. I got to cover all the bases.” – BranWafr
Learning to code.
“Learning to code in good ole BASIC. Playing games that you typed in from the back page of a magazine.” – xilog
“Spending hours typing them in, only to have it crash, then spending another hour going through line-by-line and finally finding one misplaced comma.”
“Of course, that’s assuming the programs worked in the first place. More than a few had typos, and those were the worst. Especially since the code normally wasn’t commented, which is a terrible practice to teach kids.” – APeacefulWarrior
“I had a commodore 64. I used it to print basic word documents that looked like a typed page and spent hours typing in program code from a book so I could see 3 balloons float across the screen in different directions.” – Dapper-Dance5549
“I remember when I was a little kid hearing stories of my grandpa spending loteral hours and hours typing a code just for a ‘song’ to play like 5 notes on repeat.”
“It was beeps also. Not atcual music like today. Sounded like those old Nokia ring tones. But just 5 beeps of a different pitch.” – TaintedTruth222
Homework.
“I was in college and set up a Radio Shack TRS80 with a dial-up modem that connected to the University mainframe. While other kids were stuck in the computer lab (think rows of dumb terminals) late into the night, I sat in my apartment and did assignments any time I wanted.”
“Game changer.” – dartdoug
“Games, typing essays for school.”
“My teachers hated my dot matrix printer.” – I_only_eat_triangles
Definitely not that.
“Not porn.” – TheFutureIsAlmostNow
“No back then it was a tape.” – Jolly-Idea-5079
“You didn’t have copy of Strip Poker by Artworx?” – Amiiboid
“I also didn’t wait for it to download line by painstaking line.” – theriveryeti
An oversized calculator.
“Tried to calculate 2+2. Somehow, I got a 5 as a result.” – EarlyGalaxy
“I had one at work as a process engineer for an electronic component manufacturer. On Lotus 1-2-3 (spreadsheet), I had to set calculations to manual mode from automatic. It would keep the machine from getting paralyzed after each keystroke.”
“I was tasked with getting an ultrasonic scanner mated to a fancy new x286 computer To replace our 1960s vintage analog scanner. What junk.”
“Way too much data for it to work. The cutting edge in computers was pretty blunt.” – Apical-Meristem
Writing letters.
“I received a Commodore VIC-20 as a birthday gift in 1984. It didn’t even run on floppy disks; it had a cassette drive.”
“I used it to play Hangman and Galaxian and a couple other crappy games.”
“I could also write letters and print them out on the archaic dot-matrix printer. One page took about five minutes to print.” – filthy_lucre
“Making greeting cards and posters.” – throwawayb122019
Union work.
“Xerox that ran CP-M. Had a really primitive spreadsheet program we used to keep track of union membership, dues, and print mailing labels. Still have it. Still works. Including the printer.” – ccie6861
“That’s funny. If you buy a printer today it will not last long.” – Jolly-Idea-5079
There wasn’t a lot people could do back then, because the technology was so new.
Games were still incredibly huge back then, but the internet hadn’t really started to get even close to what we know it to be today.
So much has changed in the past few decades.
It’s incredible to think we only used computers for coding, games and essays. Now, we hold them in the palm of our hand.
People Explain What They Miss Most From The Early Days Of The internet
Do you remember when the internet was new? We had grunge, and dial-up and the computer was a mystery.
Can you believe how far we’ve come? Now the internet rules the world.
Those who can think back, admit it, we all kinda thought… “This will never last.”
How wrong we were.
But with growth comes massive change.
Redditor ransom0374 wanted to discuss the good ole days of the internet, a much simpler time.
They asked:
“What do you miss from early internet times?”
Do you remember the time?
All that was new…
“I miss the wild unknown frontier that the internet was.”
“It seemed there was so much discovery to be had on the internet. And if you were good at the internet ‘Hackerman’ you were like a God amongst your peers.”
“It seems like there isn’t anything ‘new’ on the internet anymore. No discoveries to be made.” ~ SmallTownJerseyBoy
It had the look…
“I miss the look and aesthetic of old websites. Now everything is so clean and boring.” ~ LucianaLeak
“I personally like the designs from 2003/2004 for example. If you go on sites such as Spacehey or YTMND, they look very unique with the basic layouts of text and GIFs.”
“The moving text and how damn smooth it is, also appeals to me.”
“It looks very satisfying and futuristic. The crispy gifs always feel homely. And you could copy and paste images and icons that the site had.”
“But many modern sites, just not the “high-end” ones still allow you to do this.”
“Sites made for a Windows XP computer do look better than sites made especially for a phone.” ~ KappaMazinksy
Ads, ads and ads… I hate ads.
“Variety. There’s a popular tweet that says something like ‘the internet has turned into four websites where on each one people share screenshots of the other three.’”
“I miss when you could search a term and there would be dozens of sites dedicated to it or forums especially for it. Now it’s just ads, Wikipedia, and Reddit.”
“Oh, and not having ads shoved down your throat every time you search a term or navigate to a page.”
“I know there were pop ups and banners, which weren’t any better.”
“There was a few years there where you could Google something and half the first page wasn’t sponsored ads, that had nothing to do with what you looked up, and you could go to a website and it didn’t block the page with a full screen ad asking for your email to join their mailing list, or save 10% on their merchandise.” ~ SociallyInept2020
Use responsibly…
“How people used to treat it.”
“The internet was, not just a novelty, but an amazing piece of technology that let anyone share anything.”
“It was so wholesome and loving, with everyone still being amazed at what we could do now.”
“Now? There’s so many websites that are designed to make you angry and radicalise your beliefs.”
“It’s quantity over quality. There was a time when nobody on Reddit shared politics, when Facebook was for socialising, when YouTube was where people uploaded stuff they were passionate about.” ~ CameOutAndFarted
Silly language…
“AIM away messages saying stupid crap like ‘BRB going to get some bagel bites.’” ~ fluffy_boy_cheddar
“Don’t forget to update your personal profile with Blink 182 lyrics and the initials of your school sweetheart and some ASCII.”
“Browse for a new inappropriate buddy icon and strike up a convo with SmarterChild.” ~ YOLOswagBRO69
“It was dumb and fun.”
“That all the webpages were just random people trying to figure out HTML.”
“There really wasn’t a corporate presence at all. You could click on a button and make a cardboard hand wave at someone’s cats.”
“You could dispense a coke from a machine in some dorm. It was dumb and fun.” ~ diegojones4
Too much to know…
“The learning was endless.”
“There were almost an infinite source of information from all over the world.”
“If you wanted to find something all you had to do was search for it in Ask Jeeves or whatever and you’d find any website that had ever mentioned that thing.”
“There were more than 10 different websites. And at least it didn’t feel like I was being forced to sign up for a subscription after every click.”
“There were so many fun, cute stores to shop. Now it feels like everyone dresses and decorates the same.”
“I miss a lot of things about the early internet. I’m probably wrong, but it just felt safer than it does now?” ~ thatgirlfromthething
Let’s chat
“AOL and Yahoo! chatrooms.”
“And the Population Zero forum (I think it was a forum). It was for a local band that attended Orange Glen High School in Escondido, California.” ~ Reddit
When times were good…
“I was in my late teens when the internet was becoming accessible to everyone.”
“Our one household computer was in the kitchen & facing in a way so anyone coming in could see your screen.”
“I remember looking at someone’s website and my Dad passing by to get something to eat, asking me if the person on the website was my friend.”
“I miss those old days! The internet seemed endless & friendly.” ~ LusciousofBorg
Now it’s a business…
“I miss when streaming was a hobby and now everyone wants to make it a career.”
“Meanwhile for every streamer that makes a living, there’s tens of thousands with 0 viewers, or 1 if they’re logged into their own stream.” ~ Shadow_Bannedit
Crazy at my fingertips…
“The pure unadulterated wildness of it. This was the first video I was ever sent. Blew my damn mind. Lol.”
“It was funny, crass and anti-establishment. It was crap my parents wouldn’t, in a million years, let me watch.”
“But here it was, unrestricted and at my fingertips.”
“One thing folks born with the internet will never get to experience is that moment of pure joy when something as simple as a low quality and crass cartoon just blows your damn mind because of all the POSSIBILITIES it represents.” ~ Vanviator
All the popular kids…
“I can’t remember what it was called, but Yahoo had this great music video program where it showed popular artists, and some very unknown folks.”
“I discovered some of my favorite artists having it play in the background all the time.” ~ AtheneSchmidt
Oh, the good old days—they were wild and fun.
The internet is our bread and butter now. Can you even imagine life without it?
Do you want to?
7 Fun Facts About Snapchat that Would Leave You Pleasantly Surprised
If you are not a Snapchat user yet, there’s a lot to catch up on. But, if you’re a Snapchat user, you’re going to love this list of fun facts we are about to present. Read on and enjoy! Before that, you need to keep these three-pointers in mind: You can share photos and videos using this insanely popular social media app. Your content is not stored permanently, however. Content once viewed is gone forever and cannot be retrieved. Well, that’s what noobs believe. Now, here is the fun part: 1. You Can Retrieve Lost Messages Apps like Dumpster and
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People Explain Which Scientific Advances May Sound Futuristic But Are Actually Reality Today
The future is now. There are so many advances happening on the daily, it’s impossible to keep up.
Science seems to be moving at warp speed. Everything we thought would be possible is now more than possible.
Soon, we’ll all be in space.
Well, those of us with billions of dollars of course.
Redditor emeister26 wanted to discuss all the fascinating facts about life and science that are already upon us by asking:
“What is something that sounds futuristic but is happening now?”
It’s all about the T…
“CAR T cell therapy.”
“They take the T cells out of a cancer patient. They train the cells to kill the specific type of cancer that the patient has and then they put them back in.”
“This therapy doesn’t work 100 % of the time, but when it does it does miracles.”
“(It’s also expensive as sh*t for now)”. ~ strange_socks_
“I currently work in this field, and am currently commercializing my second CAR-T product in my life (my first was Kymriah).”
“It doesn’t always work 100% of the time, but the next generation of CAR-T’s have shown 100% remission rates.”
“Example of 100% remission.”
“CAR-T is roughly the same price as a monoclonal antibody, Amgens Blintocyte is $300k roughly, and Kymriah and Yescart are about $220-350k depending on where you are in the world.”
“So it’s pretty competitive.” ~ arabidopsis
How many types are there?
“I’ve been a type 1 diabetic since 1982.”
“Back when I was first diagnosed, I had to pee on a stick and match the color up to colors on the vial to see approximately what my blood sugar was a couple hours ago.”
“Now I have an anamatronic fish that tells me what my sugar levels are and I don’t even have to prick my finger! We truly are truly living in the future.” ~ rhett342
A.I. is upon us…
“Robotic prosthetic limbs. I know a guy who lost his arm from a construction accident.”
“He now has an arm that has a fully articulated hand, and is good enough that he can even write with it, though not very well.”
“He said it’s worth about half a million dollars, and also it has done wonders for his ability to hook up with women.”
“I guess a lot of people are curious and that starts off the conversation.” ~ Youpunyhumans
“There are actually some amazing innovations in the robotic prosthetic scientific field that have JUST been published!”
“Scientists have been able to make a prosthetic arm with a sense of touch! This is very important, as it allows for better gripping of objects.”
“The test subject was able to pour a glass of water in half the time it took him with a non-feeling prosthetic.”
“It also allows people to enjoy the sensation of feeling, which is pretty awesome!”
“Also, piggybacking because it’s somewhat related, scientists have also recently discovered a way to allow a paralyzed man to type and control computers with only their thoughts!”
“The outside of the brain is the part that deals with bodily motion, so they surgically implanted electrodes and asked him to imagine hand-writing letters.”
“Then, a little bit of machine learning magic, and boom! He was able to write on a computer!”
“He was able to write 90 characters a minute! Kinda the ultimate “look ma, no hands!”
“Links to articles:”
“https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/553323-in-amazing-first-paralyzed-man-is-able-to-type” ~ cancer_dragon
Photos and texts of the future.
“A program that is able to generate almost any (!!!) photo using short text input.”
“A San Francisco street? Done. Avocado chair? Yes, why not. A photo of buildings of Poland? YES, it can do that.”
“It can generate almost any stock photo you can imagine, like any any, you can add parameters, lighting, ask to specific picture in the room.”
“It uses 12 billion of pictures and descriptions to do this. There are two downsides of course: the first one is lots of lots of computational power.”
“The second is that the program is losing the track after few parameters.”
“Also it can do only 100×100 pixels at the time but it will change fast.”
“It’s called DALL-E and was premiered this year. It’s an AI made by OpenAI. Terrific and amazing at the same time.” ~ umotex12
Know the Survey
“I’m fourth generation of an excavating company and some of our surveying techniques now are unbelievable.”
“When we started in the 60’s you used a contraption called a theodolite and prism (a fancy level used to measure the distance and elevation change of the prism).”
“One of the fondest memories I’ll ever hold happened two months ago shortly before my Grandpa (the founder) passed away.”
“I showed him how to survey a 30 acre site with a drone in about 45 minutes (all automated), something that would have taken a crew well over a week in his time.”
“I then took the data, had it processed, and showed him the prints of the site right on site with my laptop. He cried.” ~ cmde44
Visualize it and See it!
“I work in the construction industry.”
“Technology has really made projects easier to plan out and do. Like back in the day, paper blueprints were how you visualized a job.”
“Big huge paper rolls that were a pain in the a** to carry around and store, and the prints were easy to damage because well… they’re paper.”
“If there was ever a change to the prints, you’d have to wait for the drafters to draw them, print them, and send them to your job.”
“Nowadays the foreman or project manager carry an iPad with all of the blueprints, both in 2D and 3D CAD drawing and can look up every detail of the drawings in seconds.”
“And if the drafters have to make changes, they can email or message the site foreman and give them new prints in a matter of minutes.”
“This isn’t your dad’s construction site anymore.” ~ Mercurydriver
Just think reeeeal hard!
“Being able to control objects with your brain. I know it’s still in its infancy but the fact that we can even attempt do stuff like that is crazy.” ~ Cruise_alt_40000
Year One
“A blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s.” ~ Geekla
“It was on Jeopardy tonight, actually, yes! I’ve been reading about it.”
“It’s less than a year old, just getting started and I’m guessing just the first version of more to come, but it’s real and it made my whole day to hear it.” ~ Geekla
Body Parts
“3d printed organs.” ~ turn_your_compote
“I really hope that one day they can just scrape a few of your stem cells, and 3 weeks later they’ve grown you a new heart, liver, kidneys, etc.” ~ Diligent_Slide
The lifespan of light…
“Something I just noticed the other day.”
“CFL light bulbs became popular and all but got replaced by LED bulbs all within the lifespan of a single bulb.”
“I was replacing a bulb the other day that was a CFL and I remember the last time I replaced it, the previous bulb was an incandescent.” ~ Restil
The Good Landing
“Rockets landing upright… to me it looks like bad special effects, because it was never in any good movies.” ~ redmaybe
Technology and science, two things I’ll never understand. But two things I can’t avoid.
We are close to living in The Jetsons.
I can feel it. Can you?
People Divulge The Most Surprising Computer Skills That People Still Don’t Know How To Do
It seems like the younger generation is often the generation in charge of having basic computer skills and walking our older counterparts through how to use them.
Teaching them how to save something as a pdf, or how to install a firewall and how not to download creepy solitaire game from third party websites takes up a lot of our time..
Eventually, though, you expect they will pick up some skills of their own. When they don’t, it can be incredibly frustrating to go through what you consider a simple process again and again and again.
So when Redditor anushitech polled Reddit:
“What is one computer skill that you are surprised many people don’t know how to do?”
People saw it as an opportunity to vent. And vent they did.
Cyberspace: The Final Frontier
“I remember my aunt wondering why her document wasn’t in the My Documents folder on our family computer.”
“She had saved it in her own My Documents folder on her own computer the next town over and apparently assumed there was only one Windows 98 communal My Documents folder in existence.”-b*ttboy3
“I taught a computer course several years ago.”
“I remember the biggest thing for most completely-new computer users was not looking at their hand while moving the mouse, and being terrified of breaking the computer by accidentally closing a window or something.”
“Oh, and knowing whether they should single click or double click – this was a major preoccupation for some.”-timmyrey
“I teach web design at the college level. Used to teach community weekend workshops. Html and css with some expected knowledge of computer basics.”
“Local workforce development group would enroll people to update their skills, but would never actually check for prior knowledge. Had to teach how to hold a mouse, that right-click meant use the right mouse button.”
“Had to teach how to open and save files. That the web was not loaded onto a computer and that you needed to connect to the internet first.”
“Not a lot of actual html taught some weekends, which was a shame for those who really wanted to learn. Waste of time for everyone.”
“I started sharing curated resources for web design. started pointing people to a basic into to computer class that should be taken before mine.”
“Kept making requests to have someone vet the students before putting them in my class.”
“Finally gave up when i had a student who wanted to use her ancient flip-phone so she could take work with her.”
“No internet on the thing so made her user a school computer. She got pissy when something wasn’t working.”
“Turns out she was trying to go online with Windows calculator. No idea how she even got there. She eventually went ballistic when the code she typed in her email wouldn’t work (again, wanted to save the work to take with her).”
“I have almost eternal patience, but couldn’t take an irate woman screaming in my face because aol email won’t work for writing code.”
“The class was supportive and I patiently let her leave early. I decided teaching those weekend workshops weren’t worth it after that.”-mister-chad-rules
Going The Long Way
“I once had a guy send me a picture of his desktop. I asked for screenshot of his screen as it was generally easier then asking for the IP address which our company puts on the desktop.”
“Guy couldnt figure out how to screenshot his desktop wallpaper but figured out how to take a photo with his phone and attach it to an email.”-pixxie84
“Working in phone customer support, the number of times I’ve had an old person do a Google search for a web address instead of going to the url has made me realize most middle aged and elderly have no idea what a browser or address bar are.”
“‘Type “site url” into the address bar,’ I say. ‘I did! The page isn’t here!’ they say.”
“9 times out of 10 they were just on a Google page and I lost a week of life expectancy.”-taburde
“I’ve tried to incorporate spreadsheet skills into the chemistry labs I teach, and at the intro level some of them are REALLY uncomfortable using it for repeated calculations, and instead want to just work it all out one by one.”
“Some of these students are the same ones who complain that I give way too much work…”
“That’s not to say I’m not still learning new functions in Excel (just learned about sumifs and countifs recently, which def simplifies my gradebook calculations), but I really feel like everyone should have a grasp of the super basic stuff and have a concept of what a spreadsheet can be used for.”-caffeinated_tea
There Are More Ways To Do One Thing
“I was training a new 22 y/o coworker and noticed a lot of her typing mistakes involved both the first and second letter of a sentence being capitalized.”
“I inquired about it and her response was ‘sometimes i don’t turn caps lock off fast enough’… i was puzzled but kept it cool…”
“I decided to watch her type a little later on and sure enough she would hit caps lock every time she needed a upper case letter followed by turning caps lock back off…”
“When I told her what the shift key did she was genuinely ‘mind blown.’ She had just graduated college.”-Satanic_Nightjar
“People are generally pretty computer illiterate. I’m not a tech guy whatsoever but a basic understanding of shit will save you so much time.”
“I used to work at a Planet Fitness and good god do the managers need basic training in computer skills.”
“I was treated like a god for knowing how CTRL+F worked and having a basic understanding of Snipping Tool for printing out QR codes.”
“They used to really push us to sell Gym Essential Kits and when writing reports on how much they sold they would bring up the report and count one by one.”
“I was a front desk guy and had to show my regional training manager that if you just press Control + F and type in an individual employee’s name, however many times it came up minus 1 (it showed the employee’s name one extra time) was how many they’d sold.”
“This saved us hours over the course of a week. In typical manager fashion, he went ahead and took credit for this and promoted his real-life friend who was bad at their job.”
“F**k that place. I’ve never seen a company with that much incompetence at a manager-wide level.”-PrecariousAchiuwa
“As a teacher, I’ve been saying this for years. Kids and teens these days aren’t as tech savvy as they claim to be, or rather we claim them to be.”
“They grew up in a world populated by apps, very user-friendly apps.”
“90% of apps have the same structure- the lines or dots to indicate the menu, same style controls or swipe methods, etc..”
“They know which apps to find and can navigate them very efficiently; however, ask them to do intermediate level tasks on a desktop or even successfully using their browsers when researching and they struggle quite a bit.”
“Things I learned in tech/computer class in the early 2000s is not really taught anymore.”
“Instead, it’s heavily focused on programming and apps, and while very cool and likely a marketable skill, they seems to skipped basic functions and tools.”-ElZarigueya
“Google how to fix their problem. Apparently I have some superpower where I see the error code or know the name of the software and a brief description of the problem and get helpful google results with little effort.”
“Everyone else seems to just say ‘I don’t know how to find that…’ and then treat me like some kind of mystical wizard afterwards.”-anon_e_mous9669
The little tips disclosed here about computer use could really save you time and work one day if you didn’t already know them, so it might be a good idea to break out that notebook and write some of these down.
At the very least, we can all avoid becoming another story on AskReddit.
The oPhone makes it possible…
The oPhone makes it possible to send smells electronically. In 2014, the technology was introduced when a person in New York sent a sniff of their breakfast (bread, orange juice, and strawberries) to Paris where colleagues sent a sniff of their meal in return (champagne and macaroons).
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In 1949, the magazine ‘Popular Mechanics’…
In 1949, the magazine ‘Popular Mechanics’ predicted that computers in the future ‘may have only 1000 vacuum tubes’ and weigh 1.5 tons compared to the ENIAC, which had 18,000 tubes and weighed 30 tons.
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