The first commercial computer, the UNIVAC I, was created in the 1950s. This computer was far more compact and less expensive than earlier models and was made for business and scientific applications. Smaller and cheaper computers were made possible by the advancement of microprocessors in the 196...
The first VR simulator in history was recreational, and it was invented in the late ‘ the 50s. Although today we are used to talking about virtual reality, augmented and mixed, there was a time when all this was pure science fiction. There were also pioneers who challenged time asMorton ...
No one knows exactly when the yo-yo was invented, but its first appearance in the U.S. was in 1927, whenPedro Flores, an immigrant from the Philippines, started carving and selling them. Yo-yos were a toy from his childhood. By 1929, he had two factories in Los Angeles and one in ...
“I’m just this guy who was running a company and started collecting shoes.” And unlike many people who proudly display their brushes with celebrity in photographs on their walls, Elsey chooses to display pictures of all the people he’s helped instead. Their smiles remind Elsey of the ...
Tootsie Roll snack bars have been made with the same recipe since 1896. The chewable candy was the first individually wrapped penny candy invented by Leo Hirshfield, who named itfor his 5-year-old daughter, Clara, who he called his little Tootsie. Today, they come in a half-ounce snack ...
When IBM began work to create Deep Blue in 1989, AI was in a funk. The field had been through multiple roller-coaster cycles of giddy hype and humiliating collapse. The pioneers of the ’50s had claimed that AI would soon see huge advances; mathematician Claude Shannon predicted that “with...
In the ‘50s, nerds were “square,” but the 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds started to hint that it was “hip to be square.” Computer culture also helped nerd take flight, but the word wasn’t explicitly associated with technology. Technological prowess was never a requirement to be a...
Men's Health explains the definition of the slang term bussy, and speaks to multiple queer men about the word's meaning and its place in the LGBTQ+ lexicon.
The strong force in the Standard Model The reigning theory of particle physics is theStandard Model, which describes the basic building blocks of matter and how they interact. The theory was developed in the early 1970s and, over time and through many experiments, has become established as a ...
Originally invented in 1969 as what Parker Bros. billed as "the world's first indoor ball," Nerf was a round ball until the game-changing Nerf football arrived in 1972. In 1989, however, the company triggered an arms race among children everywhere with the introduction of Blast-a-Ball, wh...