From Punch Cards to Jpegs

Joseph-Marie Jacquard unveiled his revolutionary Jacquard loom around 1804. The loom used a system of punch cards to control the pattern of woven cloth automatically. Instead of manually lifting and lowering threads to create intricate designs, the loom used a series...

The Switch to Digital

In class this past week we have been discussing how television transitioned from analog signal to digital in 2009. Being born in 2001, I remember being a kid and having an analog TV. It had the “Rabbit Ears” on the top and we would have to adjust them...

Welcome World!

The word Blog comes from the term Weblog which was coined in 1997 by a man named Jorn Barger. Barger was a programmer and early internet enthusiast who maintained a personal website called Robot Wisdom, where he logged links and commentary on various topics. Tools...