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History of April Fools’ Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesHISTORY OF APRIL FOOLS’ DAY Podcast version pril Fools’ Day, or All Fools’ Day, is the name given to the custom of playing practical jokes on friends on that day or sending them on fools’ errands. The origin of this custom has been much disputed; it is in some way a relic of those…
Read MoreHistory of Macintosh: a 42-Year Love Affair
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow 40 years ago the Apple Macintosh iconic personal computer forever changed how we think about computing.
Read MoreInformation Reformation: How the Web Was Like the Reformation
Reading Time: 3 minutesInformation Reformation: 5 Ways Martin Luther and the Gutenberg movable type printing press presaged the Internet explosion of information.
Read MoreHistory of Coffee: International Coffee Day
Reading Time: 9 minutesHISTORY OF COFFEE: INTERNATIONAL COFFEE DAY Yesterday, September 29, was National Coffee Day in the US and 16 other countries. But tomorrow, October 1, is International Coffee Day, shared by the National Coffee Day in 12 countries. Whether percolated, filtered, steeped in a French press, poured over, or made with high-pressure steam in an espresso…
Read MoreInformation Reformation: How the Web was Like the Reformation
Reading Time: 3 minutesHistorical parallels between the what Martin Luther did with the moveable type printing price that was the spark that ignited the Reformation and the advent of modern technologies that similarly transformed the Internet into the World Wide Web.
Read MoreInformation Reformation
Reading Time: 3 minutesI wrote the following article over a dozen years ago when I was a technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Back in the mid-’90s, we were experiencing the early part of the first wave of "The Web." Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies we’re seeing an explosion in different dimensions. Wikis, social networking, mass…
Read MoreHistory of April Fools’ Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesAPRIL FOOLS’ DAY April Fools’ Day, or All Fools’ Day, is the name given to the custom of playing practical jokes on friends on that day, or sending them on fools errands. The origin of this custom has been much disputed; it is in some way a relic of those once universal festivities held at…
Read MoreHistory of April Fool’s Day
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAPRIL FOOLS’ DAY April Fools’ Day, or All Fools’ Day, is the name given to the custom of playing practical jokes on friends on that day, or sending them on fools errands. The origin of this custom has been much disputed; it is in some way a relic of those once universal festivities held at…
Read MoreHistory of April Fools’ Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesHISTORY OF APRIL FOOLS’ DAY April Fools’ Day, or All Fools’ Day, is the name given to the custom of playing practical jokes on friends on that day or sending them on fools’ errands. The origin of this custom has been much disputed; it is in some way a relic of those once universal festivities…
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