Tag: Tech history
Tech Time Warp: 50 Years of the Microsoft brand
Tech Time Warp: 50 Years of the Microsoft brand
On Jan. 2, 1975, Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a letter to MITS, the manufacturer of the Altair computer. Inspired by a Popular Electronics article about the Altair 8800, Gates and Allen—who were geeking out on microprocessors...
Tech Time Warp: Apple releases the revolutionary iPod
Tech Time Warp: Apple releases the revolutionary iPod
Before the iPhone, there was the iPod. On Oct. 23, 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod to a small audience—nothing like the Apple release events of later years. But then, Apple was not the juggernaut in 2001 that it is...
Tech Time Warp: Have you ever wondered about the history of cut, copy, and paste?
Tech Time Warp: Have you ever wondered about the history of cut, copy, and paste?
For many of us, using the keyboard shortcuts for cut, copy, and paste is as second nature as flipping a light switch. Whether you’re a Mac (Command-) or a PC (Ctrl+) user, these shortcuts make life easier and word processing...
