19 June 1623: Mathematician Blaise Pascal born. Unlike most of us, who, at age 13 are busy trying not to look stupid in front of the other kids at school, Blaise Pascal occupied most of his teenage years with elaborate forays into the sublteies of  Euclidian geometry and Cartesian logic.  Probably most famous for his read more »

30 May 1996: ‘Video Conferencing’ Officially Rolled Out In light of  all the fun and fancy features allowed us via Skype and various other vehicles for streaming video, let us cast our memories back to the days in which ‘video conferencing’ was the stuff of fantasy and imagination.  While decades old in the collective imagination, read more »

8 May, 1995: New Century Network Launched On this day, the New York Times joined up with eight other newspaper organizations to form the New Century Network, with the goal of linking local online news services into a national network on the World Wide Web. According to the NYT Website: “The New York Times Company read more »

1 May 1978: First Spam message sent and received. According to http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com, “the first spam email was sent on May 1, 1978 by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.” The US is the largest contributor, responsible for 28.4% of the world’s Spam, according to Wikipedia. read more »