computers are bad

Someone stated in the early days of the war, a feeling that was reciprocated by the soldier in khaki and the sailor in blue, that a mechanical device would be the determining factor in ending the world conflict, favorably, of course, for the United States…

Up until the 1960s, telephone calls were carried as analog signals.

Aviation came to Denver mainly in the form of mail.

One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy, ever-growing text file of topics for future articles contains a bunch of ideas that have been there for about six years.

Brigadier Martin Hotine is not quite the image of a decorated officer.

During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built.

Email, one of the most pervasive and enduring technologies of computer networking, was invented in about a dozen places by dozens of people in the 1960s.

In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the possibilities of developing the Columbia River.

Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated corporate history.

It has been an unfortunate turn in the software industry, one of many as of late, that gambling is once again one of its primary engines.

The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early, primitive forms.

If you've done much with modern cellphones, you've probably noticed just how odd the architecture can be around audio.

Light: it's the radiation we can see.