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The First Emoticons Were Used In 1881
=) -_- T_T =P 😉 Oh, the emoticon. Depending on who you’re talking to (or I guess texting to? messaging to?) at the moment, emoticons can be as common as some words. When did they first start showing up? Did people write letters with smileys and frowny faces? Were typewriters used to express emotion through…
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Remember When Video Games Were This Exciting?
Here’s the scene: The year? 1983. The console? Atari 2600. The place? Inside a video rental store. Enter Star Wars: The Arcade Game and you get the most exciting video game experience the 1980’s had ever seen.
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Documents From Albert Einstein’s Travels Through (Part) Time
Even geniuses have to put in some time punching the clock. Look no further than Albert Einstein himself, master of not only space-time but also — during a brief stint as a 9-to5er — of time cards.
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No, Children Of 1990, Computers Are Not The Devil
Computers may be ubiquitous now, but they were just beginning to enter the mainstream in 1990. Like any revolutionary technology, the desktop computer was viewed with more than a little scepticism by the average person. Luckily, David Neil of PBS’s Newton’s Apple was there to explain to a group of dubious high-schoolers that computers are…