Happy Holidays everyone! With Hanukkah underway, Christmas approaching this weekend, and Kwanzaa beginning on Monday, there is certainly a lot to celebrate. (The Seinfeld-inspired holiday Festivus is taking place today as well!) As with many major holidays throughout the year, the end-of-year holiday season is a significant period of travel for those in the US. ...
It’s not often that the events of a single day have a seismic impact on everything from transportation, to manufacturing, to OOH itself. However, such is the case of October 7th 1913, when Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line at his Highland Park factory, forever changing transportation as we know it. Ford’s Model T was introduced ...
At times, it can hard to fathom the sheer amount of data that get created and transferred every day, and the memory capabilities needed to facilitate that data. Modern processing power and memory storage technologies have evolved rapidly over the last few decades, and it can be easy to lose sight of what was impossible ...
Some brands are so well established and recognized that their name has become synonymous with the product itself. For bandages, they’re often simply called Band-Aids. For flavored gelatin, Jell-o. And in the world of making copies, the brand name Xerox is used conversationally the same way, sometimes even being used to describe the action itself ...
In a time so strongly influenced by technology and computing power, computer and software bugs are by no means an uncommon occurrence. At their smallest, they can be annoying or disruptive to productivity. In some cases, the existence of a bug in software can lead to catastrophic outcomes. Take, for instance, the infamous Y2K Bug. ...
For many people in the US, Labor Day means different things. To some, it’s a time of year to take one last big trip with the family – summer camps have ended, and school is likely not yet back in session in some parts of the country. For others, it marks the end of the ...
Today, August 26th, marks the start of the 150th (sesquicentennial) Colorado State Fair! This year’s fair runs from August 26th to September 5th, and is being held at the fairgrounds in Pueblo. Dating all the way back to 1872, the fair was initially held without funding from the local community or state as a whole. In 1886, ...
This Sunday is August 21st – let’s take a look at this day in 1888, and how it shaped modern computing. William Seward Burroughs spent the first several years of his professional career as a bank clerk, pouring over ledgers for hours on end in search of errors. At that time, in the late 1870s, most ...
For many people, one of the least-used features of their cellphone is the actual phone itself. With connectivity, social media, and mobile entertainment, it’s easy to overlook the core function that spurred the very creation of cell phones. However, before smartphones, cellphones, car phones, and pagers, payphones could be found in public spaces virtually everywhere ...
On this day in 1888, German inventor and auto pioneer Bertha Benz took the first long-distance automobile trip, testing out the Benz Patent-Motorwagen on a route of 66 miles! This novel trip was unique for several reasons. Namely, this was the first time the Patent-Motorwagen had been driven any significant distance, beyond a few short ...
