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The Father of the Cell Phone
On April 3, 1973, communications innovator and inventor Martin Cooper stood on Sixth Avenue and made the historic call.
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We’re a bunch of geeks at heart and that means that we love to be creative. Browse some fun factoids, find out what we’re working on next and what’s happening in the world of whole home support by reading our blogs below.
The World Wide Web Is All Grown...
The World Wide Web is growing up, turning 25 this month. In February we posted a Throwback Thursday article about Tim Berners-Lee, who put forward a proposal for the concept that would become the World Wide Web we now use every day. Trying to sum up the impact of the Internet is almost impossible. The change
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What Is Net Neutrality?
Network neutrality is an idea that's haunted the Internet since the beginning. As with radio and television, all Internet users deserve equal and complete access to online information, no matter whether you use Verizon, Comcast, or another ISP to connect to the Internet.
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Friday Linkapalooza - March 21,...
Happy Friday! Start your weekend off right with fun articles and videos collected by your friends at Bask in this week's Friday Linkapalooza. Enjoy!
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Twenty Years of Yahoo!
Twenty years ago, in February 1994, computer engineers Jerry Yang and Dave Filo built a website together called “Jerry and Dave’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”
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CBS World News Roundup Celebrat...
The first World News Roundup earned CBS a reputation for great, in-depth reporting and made foreign news coverage a regular part of the network’s programming.
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The First Web Browser
Twenty-three years ago yesterday—February 26, 1991—British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee successfully programmed and launched the first web browser. Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee was born in London June 8, 1955. His parents, Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee, were part of the team that built the first commercially
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John Glenn: Aviation Pioneer
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, traveling around the Earth three times during his approximate 5-hour flight aboard the Friendship 7.
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A Quick Peek at the Industrial ...
In Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812, Elizabeth and John Dickens welcomed their second child into the world. Christened Charles John Huffman Dickens, he would grow to become one of the world's most renowned and prolific novelists.
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Jack Kilby: The Man Behind the ...
Microprocessors & microchips drive today's technology. For Throwback Thursday, we're taking a look at the integrated circuit's inventor: Jack Kilby.
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