Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:02:19 +0000
The résumé, a document that largely gained prominence in the past half-century, was once a key part of getting a job. Soon, it might just disappear entirely.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:15:48 +0000
Over the past 35 years, our views on privacy and Caller ID technology have totally flipped. The concern used to be about the caller. Now, it’s the recipient.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:45:31 +0000
How the professional-minded MIDI format, for an incredibly short but memorable period of time, became the primary way music was shared on the internet.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:04:18 +0000
Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:54:18 +0000
We keep screwing over yesterday’s technology due to an intent focus on what we’re doing today. The problem of planned obsolescence is only getting worse.
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Credit to Author: Yuri Litvinenko| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:11:40 +0000
Before the smartphone fit in your bag, it sat on your desk—and sometimes, it was even called an iPhone. Let’s check out a few landline smartphones.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:33:40 +0000
Thinking about the globalization of the computer industry through a tech company so American it prominently promoted its birth on an Iowa farm on its packaging.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:11:40 +0000
Mechanical keyboards have become hip again, despite near-complete disinterest in the form by mainstream computer-makers. The little guy is picking up the slack.
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Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:26:23 +0000
The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap to support your modern computing needs. If it doesn’t work for them, it might just work for you.
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