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  • Throwback Thursday: Remembering...

    In January 1986, I was nine, a fourth grader at Hauula Elementary School, about an hour north of Honolulu. When it came to games of make-believe, I was big into Robin Hood and fairy tales. But on this particular January dayJanuary 27, mild and breezy in Hawaiiscience fiction and outer space adventures were all over the playground, and I was no exception. We were all alive with the possibility of the futureof visiting and exploring the far reaches of the universe.

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  • Throwback Thursday: Wilhelm Con...

    Few scientific breakthroughs have had as immediate an impact as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays, a momentous event that instantly revolutionized the fields of physics and medicine. On November 9, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen became the first person to produce and detect what’s known today as X-rays, making the invisible visible. Röntgen’s discovery

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  • Life Since Amazon.com

    It’s hard to imagine a world without online retail giant Amazon.com, but it wasn’t all that long ago that such a world actually existed. Founder Jeff Bezos created Amazon on while driving across the continent from New York to Seattle, launching the company in July 1995.

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  • Throwback Thursday: Seven Years...

    Given how influential and popular they are, it's hard to believe iPhones have only been around 7 years. Learn more about iPhone history here!

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  • Throwback Thursday: Karel Capek...

    Playwright Karel Capek was the first to introduce the word 'robot,' and had initially considered using the word 'labori,' which is Latin for labor.

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  • Throwback Thursday: Happy Birth...

    Issac Asimov is one of the most popular fiction writers of all time—and one of the fathers of the science fiction genre.

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  • Throwback Thursday: Remembering...

    Irish/Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi was fascinated with electricity from a young age. He was particularly intrigued by the work of German physicist Heinrich Hertz. In the 1880s, Hertz was the first to create and detect radio waves. At this time, the telegraph was the main form of electrical communications, and incredibly important. People could communicate […]

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  • Windows XP, you will be missed!...

    It’s true, all good things must come to an end: dominant football dynasties, great television shows, and even computer software. In just a few short months Microsoft will close the curtain on Windows XP.

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  • What's Old is New: How New Soft...

    Nerveware has devised a piece of software that dives into an old computer and essentially makes it just as good as new.

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  • 3 Retro Technologies Worth Cele...

    This week, Google decided to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the first Video Cassette Recorder, or VCR, being sold in 1956. Yes, you read right. 1956. The first VCR was developed by a company called Ampex and it was sold for $50,000. Not bad, considering that it’s awfully difficult to buy a brand new VCR today.

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